The Chronicle

Our Stars of the Week this week are:

House points for this week are:

1st – Venus 161

2nd – Saturn 137

3rd – Jupiter 117

4th – Mars 114

Well done Venus!!!

Teachers will be awarding house points to those who send evidence of their work to them - keep up the good work!!

As we find ourselves continuing our learning, but in a new way, we are keen to ensure we all stay in touch with our Crackley family.

Every week Mr. Duigan will share his assembly and provide the parents and children with a friendly face and news about what is happening in our virtual school. 

The first video was sent out on Tuesday and appears to have been a great success with everyone. Here are some of the lovely things that have been said;

"Missing the school run, the people, the noise and the bustle and the community.,.. But school hasn’t stopped, Crackley Hall teachers and staff are doing an amazing job of keeping our children learning despite the difficulties. This week we have had video assemblies, PE lessons, in the garden, phone calls from teachers, a squirrel plus Mr Lamprecht was abducted by artificial intelligence.... Crackley Hall are doing a fantastic job - thankyou"

"Thank you to you and all of the staff for providing us with support and updates at this time. A call from Mrs Hill today was also a lovely gesture and a pleasure to receive!"

"Thank you so much for such a wonderful assembly!"

"What a wonderful Headmaster! Thank you for sharing this lovely message, it has been so nice for us to see Mr Duigan and to listen."

"We appreciate all you and your wonderful staff are doing."

Thank you for all the messages of support, we will continue to record and share these assemblies with you all.

This week has been our first week of Home Learning and we have all been so impressed by the wonderful work the children have been doing.

We are so proud of them all for embracing this new style of learning. We have very much enjoyed receiving photos of their work.  Here are just a few photos from across the year groups.  We will be sharing more next week.

Please do continue to send through your learning photos over the Easter break and we will include them in our next edition.

Well done everyone.

Richard Harcourt has been appointed to the Foundation’s Board of Trustees.
Mr Harcourt lives locally in Stretton on Dunsmore and has three children who all attended Princethorpe College.

After leaving school at the age of 16, Mr Harcourt started an Engineering Apprenticeship at Dunlop Aerospace in Coventry. In a career spanning some 40 years he travelled the world, including a four-year stint based in Canada, before finally retiring in 2018 as the Director of Operations at Rolls Royce. He now splits his time between non-executive work and his hobbies of golf, gardening and travelling.

Mr Harcourt, comments, “My children all attended Princethorpe College and benefitted hugely from the terrific learning environment the Foundation offers. I am therefore thrilled to be asked to join the Board of Trustees and to support the Foundation as it continues to develop and thrive.”

Eddie Tolcher, Foundation Bursar and Clerk to the Trustees said, “Richard will bring a wealth of commercial experience to the Foundation’s Governing Body. His experience, insight and advice will be very much appreciated.”

Mathlete of the week for J1H is Jessie and Lena

Mathlete of the week for J2H is Sara

Mathlete of the week for Mrs Lammas group is Woody

Mathlete of the week for J3V is Kate

Mathlete of the week for J3S is Jack

Mathlete of the week for Mrs Hills J4 group is Merryn 

Mathlete of the week for Mrs Hills J6 group is Lily 

Well done to all!

The Foundation’s senior school Princethorpe College has set up a Twitter account to provide helpful advice and guidance to parents of pupils at the school.  Much of the advice is not specific to secondary aged children so we are inviting all members of our wider school community to follow the account. 

Run by Princethorpe College’s Deputy Head Pastoral, Mrs Beth Sharpe, it is sharing information and links from a variety of official sources and includes useful learning resources as well as advice to keep us all mentally well and safe.

Search for @Parenting@Princethorpe to follow the Twitter account.

Amelia (J3S) receives a da Vinci award for her super Egyptian Cinderella story.