The Chronicle

Crackley Hall has been invited to help brighten the windows of the Castle Medical Centre in Kenilworth.  They have contacted us with the following message:

The past weeks have been a challenge for all of us, and when normal services resume and our doors open again we want people to know they’re in a safe environment. We think that brightening up our windows by our main entrance with beautiful masterpieces might help and put a smile back on our patients faces.

We would be incredibly grateful if you could decorate some butterflies for us? If you are willing and have the time, the butterfly template (link below) should be printed and coloured.

Butterfly

The Key Worker children have been busy decorating butterflies for Castle Medical Centre. If you would like to help the practice, then please send your butterflies directly to the following address marked for the attention of Ms Herbert, Assistant Practice Manager:

Castle Medical Centre
22 Bertie Road
Kenilworth
CV8 1JP

Lots of lovely lockdown learning has been taking place with Crackley’s pupils continuing to show plenty of diligence and commitment to continuing their studies.

Junior 1 pupils have been amongst those going the extra mile! Especially Evie who has been reading to her Nana in Barbados. Well done also to Jessie for saying her prayers and keeping the faith and to Charlie who sent in super photos of the croissants he made as part of his language learning topic. Mrs Hardwick was really impressed with Grace who not only learned her continents but then taught them to her sister as you can see in the clip here.

Then in Junior 2, Ted has been practising his drawing skills with a happy heart, whilst Blythe built a Motte and Bailey castle to go with the History topic on Castles. Mrs Holmes was very impressed with Arthur’s superb example of pictorial maths’ problem solving for multiplication and division and with his lovely prayer.

Our Junior 3 pupils have been busy too. Mr Stedeford tasked the children to build the development of a settlement from village to town to city and he was very pleased with Ralph and Chloe’s work and awarded both a JDV. Then both Carter and Theo wrote super stories, the children were writing from a plan they had created the day before. Their main learning task was to write using paragraphs, and they had free reign with the story content. Both boys produced excellent pieces of work. Finally Jason impressed us all with his super lawn mower invention, have a look at him here.

Keep it up everyone, stay focused and motivated and remember your teachers are here for you.

Sharing a book together is great fun and it also helps children really engage with their learning. Reading is part of daily life here at Crackley Hall, no matter what year you are in. Reading together helps children enjoy a wider range of different stories, develops language and literacy skills, kick starts their imaginations and strengthens social skills.

Keeping reading is important for all the children especially in the current lockdown. So for a special treat here is Mr Cottrill reading the Legend Of Podkin One-Ear, a wonderful adventure tale of warrior rabbits, written by Kieran Larwood, and winner of the Best Story Blue Peter Book Award.
It is a fabulous story suitable for children in Key Stage 2. So if you haven't already, why not settle down to enjoy this special sparkling story. The first chapter can be listened to here.

And watch out for the next instalment which will be shared with you all very soon.

Mrs Hill has provided the following information regarding SeeSaw:

Form teachers (Junior 1 upwards) will continue to upload the weekly curriculum overview to the General Class information folder in your child’s SeeSaw account. Parents who have linked to the SeeSaw families App will be able to view this. All pupils are able to view the weekly overview through their class account. We strongly recommend downloading the weekly overview as it advises the children (and parents) about live sessions, and the key learning objectives for the week.

The revised class timetable as of 4 May (updated in response to the parent questionnaire) - can be found in the same location.

Congratulations to those students who achieved a Da Vinci award this week. 

Beatrice in J2 wrote and performed her very own poem which she shared with Mrs Holmes. Beatrice's poem

Mr Stedeford has awarded Freddie a Da Vinci for his sporting achievements.  Freddie has also shared a video with us which can be viewed by following the link. Freddie's sporting achievements 

Henry and William joined forces and worked together creating a scarecrow. They have been awarded a Design and Technology Da Vinci for their design, sewing and creative skills.  That's a fantastic looking scarecrow boys!

Ralph in J3 achieved a Da Vinci award for his recent exeptional work in Geography and Ted in J2 was awarded his certificate for his History project.

Also, very well done to Leo and Esme in J3. The children were tasked this week with setting up an obstacle course or skills challenge in their garden. Esme was clearly inspired by her dad who has previously been a contestant on Ninja Warrior! Both children went above and beyond and have both earned a Junior da Vinci as a result. You can watch Esme's Challenge here.

Congratulations to our Mathletes this week: Evie in J1, Theo, Lawson and Mitchell in J3.