The Chronicle

This term, nine Junior 6 pupils have taken part in an exciting initiative designed to challenge some of our top attainers. To stretch their independent learning skills, pupils undertook their own research into a topic of their choice and then created innovative and exciting presentations. Each pupil used their own time and initiative, with guidance and support provided by Mrs Cowlishaw. 

Yesterday, the projects were presented to Mr Duigan. The pupils and their research projects were:

• Fergus C - Oblique Wing Aircraft
• Darcey W-Sh - Will we be able to ski in the future? The impact of global warming.
• Elora H - Mental Blocks In Gymnasts
• Elizabeth E - Vampires
• Ding F - How to make money from YouTube.
• Beatrice P - Art Movements Of The 20th Century
• Sara A - Spies And Codebreaking
• Arthur C - Green Energy
• Molly H - The History Of Flight

Mr Duigan was impressed by them all and said that he could clearly see the time and effort that had gone into each project.

As a final challenge, pupils will be presenting their projects to their parents tonight.

Good luck and well done to all!

Phonics is taught from the early years at Crackley Hall, starting in Nursery and Reception. When pupils move into Key Stage 1 it remains a key part of our traditional teaching approach. Both Junior 1 and Junior 2 enjoy 30 minutes of systematic phonics at the start of every school day.

Phonics is the precursor to reading, writing and spelling. It provides the foundation for children to develop crucial literacy skills that will carry them throughout life. High quality phonics teaching supports younger children to master the basics of reading and develops their communication skills.

Our strong phonics provision accelerates pupils’ learning delivering above national attainment and enables our children to independently access other areas of the curriculum. Phonics makes them better readers and writers and helps to engage them in their learning. It's lots of fun too!

Our Little Crackers Nursery team organised a very special ‘Graduation Ceremony’ to celebrate the pre-school group ‘moving on’ to big school. The ceremony took place on Wednesday afternoon, in front of their families, and the children were each presented with a little scroll by Mrs Bird and Miss Birch.

The children had practised special songs for the occasion and sung them perfectly, they also performed an amusing short sketch, helpfully reminding us all what they need to take to school.

Miss Birch said, “It was wonderful to mark this important moment for our little ones. We are all sorry to see this fantastic group of children move on, but we wave goodbye with a smile, and plenty of good wishes for exciting times ahead.”

Sports Day on Monday was a great day of sport out on the school fields. So much determination in both the track and field events. Well done to everyone in Juniors 3 to 6 for taking part so enthusiastically and showing such fabulous house spirit. Race after race, event after event our outstanding young athletes leapt, threw and sprinted their hearts out. The school made a full day of it; every child ran in a sprint and every child took part in an individual event and, most importantly, every child had fun.

Huge thanks to Mrs Vaughan and to all the staff for making Sports Day such a super event. Even the weather was kind to us, this year we had gorgeous sunshine. Our Key Stage 2 Sports Day was a fantastic fun-filled day enjoyed by all!

The House results were:

• 1st Saturn (249 points)
• 2nd Mars (243 points)
• 3rd Venus (229 points)
• 4th Jupiter (210 points)

Here are just a few photos. 

On Tuesday 25 June, Junior 4 played in the U9 ISA Kwik Cricket tournament in Derbyshire.

The boys had a fantastic day playing cricket in the sun, working their way through the tournament, and ended up bringing home a bronze medal - well done to you all, great team effort, you represented Crackley Hall wonderfully!

On Monday we welcomed Kate and Vicki from the Warwickshire Library Service, who spoke to the children about The Reading Agency's Summer Reading Challenge - The Marvellous Makers. Organised in conjunction with public libraries, the challenge aims to fire up children’s imaginations and unleash storytelling and creativity through the power of reading.  

The challenge runs from Monday 8 July to Saturday 7 September and to take part, a pupil needs to be a library member - this can be done by either joining online or at any library.

Pop down to your local library to find.

Crackley Hall Dads played The Croft School Dads in two exciting charity football matches for OSCAR’s Paediatric Brain Tumour Charity.

The thrilling games were organised by Adam Ward and Ian Houghton, and held at Kenilworth School, on Saturday 8 June and then Home Guard Club, Tiddington, on Sunday 23rd June.

OSCAR's exists to support and care for children facing brain tumours and their families, to raise awareness of children’s brain tumours and to fund new research to drive down diagnosis time, increase survival rate and improve children’s quality of life during and after treatment.

After their first successful outing against Crescent School last year, Crackley Hall’s Dads put in another strong performance in what were fantastic, friendly but competitive games, winning both matches with a comfortable margin, 5-1 in the first and 7-0 in the second.

Their donations page remains open and you can find it here: https://www.justgiving.com/page/adam-ward-1717261747668

Many thanks to all who organised and supported the games.