The Chronicle

Our Stars of the Week this week are:

Congratulations to them all!

Crackley Hall joined schools across the country today, Friday 7 May, for a mega maths fundraising day for the NSPCC. It was a fantastic end to a whole week of mathematical fun after pupils in Junior 1 through to Junior 6 also took part in the Mathletics World Maths Day challenge earlier in the week.

Maths lead, Mrs Van Zyl, and her Junior 3 class gave 100% out on the playground in their Maths lesson and across the school the children took part in a host of mathematical activities. Pupils made a donation to come to school in number themed costumes and together raised an amazing £404 that will be donated to support the work of the NSPCC.

There will be a full write up on all the mathematical fun for a great cause in next week's Chronicle!

Last week Lord Brooke of Warwick Castle joined Junior 2 to set up a commission, to help the people of 1694 whose lives were altered when a fire ravaged through the town, one hot evening in September.

To help set the scene, St John’s Museum loaned their acquisition ‘loans box’, containing all manner of exciting household goods and chattels, that were used by the townsfolk in the 17th century. These included fine leather gloves, rushlights, leeches and their glass container, crucifix, snuff box and blacksmith’s apron and hammer.

Pupils became commissioners for the afternoon, listening to the hardship stories of a range of characters, from poor Annie Ryder (who lost her home and belongings) to Sir Henry Puckingham, rich gentleman and landowner whose suffering was minimal.

The children were horrified to find out that the although the claims were heard by the commission, very few people received any or very little compensation for their losses, including the blacksmith, who lost his home, his business and all his goods but received only £8 for his trouble. Sir Henry, of course, whose home wasn’t damaged, received the most!

Junior 2 would like to say thank you to St John’s for their online session which was very informative and Mrs Holmes was delighted that Sue, our guide for the afternoon, said, “The children were so knowledgeable and were very fair citizens!”

It was a very informative online session. Many thanks to St John's Museum and to Sue.

Well done to Elsie in Junior 5 who with the help of family members organised a cake sale on Sunday as part of the Captain Tom's 100 challenge. Elsie sold cakes to her local community raising just over £400 for the charity Zoë's Place Coventry Baby Hospice.

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

Mathlete of the week for Mrs Glen-Root's class is William

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

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

Mathlete of the week for Mrs Van Zyl's class is Sukhmani

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

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

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

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

Well done all!