The Chronicle

Junior 6 this week have had a busy time preparing for Leavers’ Mass and Leavers’ Assembly. Some children have had their moving up day where they have gone to their new schools and met their new class and teachers for their coming year.

During our full final week at Crackley, the children have been reminiscing about their fondest memories over the last few years and enjoyed sharing fun stories with each other. It’s been lovely to see the children so happy and enjoying their final few days together. They are looking forward to next week where they will take part in their final Sports day, Mass and Assembly.

Despite not getting to show off their house colours during sports day this week, there was still an opportunity for the Junior 5s to show off their sporting ability in a House cricket tournament. All children showed great determination and teamwork, but it was Saturn who won overall with a score of over 200 runs. Well done to all children who took part and fingers crossed for clear skies next Monday! 

All the Junior 4s have loved our new Science topic, 'The Big Build'. They were all able to identify a variety of famous bridges from across the world, combining this knowledge with geography too. Junior 4 have enthusiastically researched about the differing bridge structures and then both designed and built their very own bridges – as strong as they could possibly be! Mrs Roberts, their Science teacher, said she was amazed by the diverse and skilful structures which were created by all. We then used weights to see how strong their bridges were and some of them were even strong enough to hold their creator. Well done to all!

There has been much to celebrate and enjoy this week - from Moving Up day on Wednesday, where we met our new teachers for Junior 4, to a delightful Prize Giving on Thursday, where we celebrated our friends and reflected on a wonderful year. We are ending the year on such a high note and feel ready and prepared for the challenge of Junior 4. We are making the most of our remaining days in Junior 3, busying ourselves with finishing our DT project and completing the final touches to our persuasive letters to the President of Columbia. We have also made kapok filled ladybird pencil cases this week to go with our Great Kapok Tree story. We created little ladybirds using a variety of stitches and then stuffed them with natural Kapok from a seed. The 1st of July saw us celebrating two additional events, the birthday of Mrs Wheatley and the completion of Miss Black’s placement with us. We wish Mrs Wheatley a very happy birthday and have decided she can have a few weeks off (after next week) as a present. We also wish Miss Black all the very best as she heads off to start her teaching career in Birmingham. We thank her for all she has done this term and hope she continues to love teaching and learning as much as we do. Well done everyone, you have been a sensational Junior 3 Year group; making us, your parents and each other proud.

What a busy week in Junior 2! A road safety workshop, move-up day, prize giving and to finish the week - STEM day! The children had a wonderful day learning how to take photos and videos of their friends and how to make these into movies. Their editing skills have progressed so much, and we have enjoyed seeing them make videos celebrating their time in Year 2. 

Junior 1H would like to say a huge THANK YOU to the PTA for the delicious ice creams and ice lollies that we had on Monday, what a wonderful way to start the week! Having a yummy treat did not stop us from working hard this week, particularly in English where we were writing poems about different colours and using our senses to help describe each colour in a unique way. As it was STEM week, we took the opportunity to challenge ourselves to make the longest paper chain using only one piece of paper – much trickier than you think! We then made a moving toy which moved using a CAM mechanism which was a brilliant link back to our trip to the MAD museum last week.

In Reception this week, the children have been reflecting on their time in Reception. Looking through their books and photos from the year, they discussed what they are proud of, and what they can do now that they couldn’t do before. We have also spent time this week thinking about moving to Junior 1, and what they are looking forward to learning next year and anything they may be worried about too. Their ‘Moving-Up’ day on Wednesday was successful and the children came back excited about their new class.