The Chronicle

Our Stars of the Week this week are:

Congratulations to them all!

We have just received the exciting news that Avni and Amaya, who are now in Junior 1 and Junior 2 respectively, have come first in the Independent Schools Association’s (ISA) Regional Art Competition. While Sara and Harry (both now in Junior 6) and last year’s Junior 1 and Junior 5L have taken second place in this prestigious competition.

Every year the ISA hold an Art competition and Crackley Hall always takes part. It is a great way to celebrate the outstanding artwork produced by pupils across the school.

This year, Avni has taken first place with her striking Barn Owl pastel in the Art 2D Individual EYFS class while Amaya’s lovely painting, Fish Blowing Bubbles has won the Art 2D Individual KS1 class.

Last year’s Junior 1 placed second in the Art 3D Group KS1 class with Birds In A Terracotta Pot, Junior 5L’s Winter Print also took second in the Textiles Group KS2 class and Sara and Harry were awarded second for their Tudor Portraits in the Art 2D Group KS2 class.

We congratulate all the young artists on their super success.

Avni and Amaya’s work now goes forward to the ISA National Art Competition, that takes place locally, at Chesford Grange, in November.

It was great to see Princethorpe College’s artists doing well too with the College taking three firsts and a second place, including a former Crackley Hall pupil Ruby Harris who was awarded first place in the Art 2D Individual KS5 class for her piece Junk Food.

On Monday 9 October, Crackley Hall School took part in Princethorpe College’s Year 5 Maths Challenge. The event was run by Douglas Buchanan of DCBEAGLE Challenges, who specialises in organising exciting and innovative maths activities for primary school aged children.

Crackley took two teams of two to compete alongside 52 pairs of enthusiastic and very talented mathematicians from 25 local schools, the pupils took part in a series of puzzles against the clock. In five eight-minute rounds the children tackled Tangram Triangles, Broken Calculators, Domino Jigsaws, Make 24, Card Order and Curly’s Cycling Circuits.

Ably supported and marked by a team of Princethorpe’s Year 10 pupils, the competition stretched and challenged the children with mathematical activities that required both reasoning skills and mathematical knowledge.

The event was huge fun for all who took part and everyone who participated received a certificate and a special Princethorpe cookie.

Felix and Evie and Ain and Grace had lots of fun solving a range of tricky mathematics challenges, they were amazing finishing in 5th and 12th place, scoring 111 and 91 points respectively.

Mrs Cowlishaw, who accompanied the children, said, “The children had a great time and really enjoyed putting their maths skills to the test. Well done to them all, there were some very talented mathematicians taking part and they made Crackley Hall School proud.”

Father Kevin visited the school on Thursday to talk to the pupils about the Rosary, as October is traditionally dedicated to the Holy Rosary of Mary. Fr Kevin explained how the beads of the Rosary are divided into five decades, each decade representing an event in the life of Jesus. These five events are then grouped into a set of four mysteries, with each looking at an important part of the life of Jesus. The Rosary beads provide a method of keeping count of the different parts of the prayer and the fingers are moved along the beads as the prayers are said. Take a look at Junior 2 in the Spiritual section as during their lessons this week they each made their very own Rosary beads!