The Chronicle

Our Stars of the Week this week are:

Congratulations to them all!

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 took first place with her striking Barn Owl pastel in the Art 2D Individual EYFS class while Amaya’s lovely painting, Fish Blowing Bubbles 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 5’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 artists on their super success.

Avni and Amya’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 the coveted first place in the Art 2D Individual KS5 class for her piece Fast Food.

We have had a fantastic afternoon of House fun to round off the half term. Children from Years 3-6 gathered excitedly in the school hall to cheer on their house-mates as they took on three new exciting events in our annual House competition schedule this year.

First up was the Spelling Bee – a trial of spelling prowess with Junior 4 taking on the challenge. It was keenly contested but after much careful concentration it was Mars that proved victorious.

Next up was the Instrumentalist Final where all the children who had made it through the auditions performed. A huge well done to:

• William playing Pluto on the piano (Mars)
• Sienna F playing Cheshire Cat on the piano (Saturn)
• Beatrice playing Alleluia on the piano (Venus)
• Henry F playing Ninette's Musette on the piano (Jupiter)

We then moved on to the Vocalist Final, well done to all who took to the stage to perform:

• Jenson sang Singing in the Rain (Saturn)
• Isla sang Quiet (Jupiter)
• Josie-Jean sang Everlasting (Venus)
• Evie K sang Naughty (Mars)

Many thanks to Heather Nadin who joined us this afternoon to act as our judge for the Instrumental and Vocal finals. After hearing all of the amazing performances and considering carefully she declared the winners to be Evie, for Mars, in the Singing competition and Henry F, for Jupiter, in the Instrumental competition. A huge well done to them both.

Many thanks to all who helped with the afternoon’s fun and especially to Mr Vaughan who arranges and runs all of Crackley Hall’s House events.

On Wednesday 18 October we welcomed Father Kevin into school for our Blessing of the Stones service. Pupils new to the school gathered outside in St Joseph’s Prayer Garden where Father Kevin blessed their decorated stones before they were placed in the box underneath the cross.

Each stone represents a member of the Crackley Hall community and together the growing collection of stones provides a lasting legacy of children’s time at Crackley Hall School.

Intended as a place for prayer and reflection, our prayer garden is a special location within Crackley Hall's confines offering a peaceful place for students and staff throughout the year.

Thank you to the RE Captains for supporting Father Kevin in the service.

Well done to all the pupils who sent in entries for the last House Art Competition and very well done to all our worthy winners.

The first place winner for KS1 was Yuvraj (Saturn) with Mr Scarecrow at Harvest Time.  The first-place winner for KS2 was Alexander T (Venus) with Rice Harvest. Second place in KS2 went to Ellie while third place in KS2 was won by Beatrice P. Second place for KS1 went to Wilson and in third place for KS2 was Autumn. Well done to all!

To keep us busy in the weeks ahead, Ms Holmes has set a new House Art competition with the theme ‘GIFT’ which will appear on SEESAW this Monday 23 October (closing date 15 December). 

Good luck everyone!