The Chronicle

Our Stars of the Week this week are:

Congratulations to them all!

Former Crackley Hall pupil, Cadie Hardwick, has been awarded first place in the Independent Schools’ Association’s Midlands Region Art Competition. Her entry, 2.20am, a watercolour on paper, depicting the sinking of the Titanic, which she produced last year when she was in Junior 6, was placed first in the Key Stage 2 Art 2D Individual class.

Then former Junior 6 pupil, Neve Anderson, who is now in Year 7 at Princethorpe College, took second place in the Key Stage 2 Art 2D Individual class with her painting on card, a poignant reflection on this year’s events, View From My Bedroom.

Other award winners from the school included Elizabeth Edkins who received a highly commended in the Key Stage 1 2D Art class for her colourful oil pastel, After Georgia O’Keeffe and last year’s Junior 3 for their watercolour on paper, After Henri Rousseau, their work was awarded second place in the Key Stage 2 Art 2D group category.

It was a super set of results for the young artists and we congratulate them all on their success.

This year's winning Crackley Hall Christmas card design is by Junior 6 pupil, Thomas Zanyi. His striking image of a trumpeting angel soaring above the earth is both simple and effective.

Headmaster, Rob Duigan, was delighted to announce the competition results last week commending all of the children who took part. He commented, “It’s great to see so many pupils getting involved and producing such great work for the Christmas card competition. There was an exceptionally strong field of entries this year, plenty of original ideas delivered with lots of attention to detail.  Thomas’s use of strong colour really helped his design stand out and made it the perfect choice for the school’s Christmas card this year.”

Congratulations also go to the runners up whose designs feature as cameos on the reverse of the card: Noah Cowlishaw and Sloane Camilleri-Willis.

A huge well done to everyone who took part!

Crackley Hall School and Little Crackers Nursery are once again delighted to be sponsoring Kenilworth Christmas Lights. Traditionally the school choir sings at the official turning on ceremony in Kenilworth Old Town and we will all miss being a part of our community’s celebrations.

The virtual switch on takes place this evening at 5.45pm and we look forward to seeing the town decorated festively and all lit up.

We hope everyone enjoys Kenilworth Lights this year and the excitement of the run up to Christmas.

Junior 2 are exploring the Living World in Science and have been investigating the topic of teeth. In their lesson on Wednesday, they were joined through Teams by a local dentist and dental nurse, Mr and Mrs Kharbanda, for a special fang-focused fact-finding session.

The children had previously explored models of the mouth and teeth and they all understood the importance of visiting a dentist. Using questions and answers, Mr and Mrs Kharbanda explained why we all have teeth and how best to look after them. Junior 2 now know you need to eat healthily, avoid sugary drinks and snacks, brush your teeth for two minutes twice a day and go to see your dentist regularly.

The session finished with the tooth-brushing song and the children all practised saying it together. It was a great way to remember a really important message.

After saying thank you to their visitors, Mrs Holmes had one more final toothy treat for the children – a disclosing tablet! Everyone got to try one and to see just how well they brush their teeth!

Mathlete of the week for Mrs Hardwick's class is Angelica

Mathlete of the week for Mrs Glen-Roots's class is Teo

Mathlete of the week for Mrs Holmes's class is Jessie

Mathlete of the week for Mr Stedeford's group is Fraser

Mathlete of the week for Mrs VanZyl's class is Beatrice

Mathlete of the week for Mrs Wildey's class is Grace

Mathlete of the week for Mrs Burley's group is Amelia

Mathlete of the week for Mrs Roberts's group is Mikey

Mathlete of the week for Mrs Lammas's group is Morton 

Well done all! 

As part of Christmas Jumper Day, the Student Council have created an extra (optional competition) that involves designing a Christmas jumper for Mr Duigan.

The £1 entry fee will be donated to Save the Children.

All entries must be created on an A4 piece of paper (with or without the template below) and should be handed to your form tutor by Friday 4 December.

There will be a small prize for the winner, which will be judged by Mr Cottrill (as voted by Student Council), on Christmas Jumper Day. 

Template

The date for this year's Christmas Jumper Day for Save the Children is Friday 11 December.

If children would like to participate, they should come to school in their usual uniform with a Christmas jumper in place of their school jumper.

All children wearing a Christmas jumper are asked to bring in a £1.00 donation for Save the Children.

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/christmas-jumper-day

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