The Chronicle

Dear Parents

I hope that you will have the opportunity to read some of the interesting news and articles in this week’s Crackley Chronicle.  It has been another busy week in school and this term seems to be increasing pace.  I am delighted to see so many sports fixtures taking place once again, we have recently seen children visit The Croft for rugby, Cambridge for a rugby festival, an ISA National hockey festival and ISA 5-a-side fixtures.

We invited Crescent School’s Junior 6 children to participate in a (appropriately socially distanced) music workshop on Tuesday and, if you have access to our Facebook page, you will be able to watch some of the marvellous performances that took place that day.  My thanks to Mrs Olden for co-ordinating this event and to Mrs Stokes for the guest performance during the day.

Yesterday evening I hosted our Nursery and Reception Open Evening and welcomed a limited number visitors into school, after hours and, once again, with certain arrangements in place.  Thank you to Mrs Glen-Roots, Mrs Jenny Vaughan, Mr Luis, Mr Sansum and the classroom staff for helping to make this event possible.  Mrs Allen, our Class teacher, also visited to say hello to our current Reception C class parents and to meet any prospective parents for next year.  Please do not worry if you were unable to meet Mrs Allen as we will try to arrange another opportunity for you to meet her.

I hope that you were able to enjoy the Joseph Production during the course of last weekend.  There will be a limited number of DVD’s available before the end of this term, if you are interested in purchasing a copy, please contact the school office.

Holiday club will be open from Wednesday 16 December until Thursday 23 December should there be sufficient bookings for each day. If sufficient demand exists, we will also run holiday club on Tuesday 4 January.  Please see details later in this edition and complete the online booking form as soon as possible so that these days maybe confirmed to parents and staffing can be allocated.

Congratulations to all our stars of the week: Ethan, Arjan, Nirvair, Sloane, Edward, Thea, Jacob, Mahnoor, Isaac, Sienna, Lennon, Amalia, Seb and Alfred.  Diya, Junior 3 was also congratulated on completing her bronze award.  I hope that you enjoyed watching assembly, particularly the wonderful performance by Mrs Goode’s Junior 1 singing group; it was enough to brighten any grey winter morning.

The PTA are working hard behind the scenes to organise a spectacular Christmas Fayre for all the children to enjoy on 6 December.  This will take place during school time when each year group will be allocated a time to visit the fayre and see our special guest.  Please keep a look out for further correspondence about this event which I hope that you are able to support.  Thank you very much to the Card family for hosting a most enjoyable quiz last Friday.  Thank you, also to all the families who joined us and congratulations to our winning family, the O’Hallorans.

I have been delighted with the outstanding sports results this week, in particular the excellent wins over Warwick in the U11 rugby festival.  I am not as confident about the Springboks against England this weekend.

I will be attending the Princethorpe Prizegiving this evening and I am looking forward to seeing some of our pupils from previous years.  I am as proud as each parent there when an ex-Crackley Hall pupil takes to the stage to receive their well-deserved prize and very much enjoy this evening of celebration.

I should like to wish everyone a happy and restful weekend.

God bless,

Mr Duigan