The Chronicle

School Day Timings

The school day commences at 8:30am promptly, and pupils should arrive at 8:20am for registration, to ensure that that they have plenty of time to get to their first lesson punctually.

Early Birds runs from 7:45am to 8:20am.

Any pupils arriving after 8:30am, must sign in at the School Office.

End of the day collection times and locations are as follows:

Registration

Pupils are electronically registered in the morning and after lunch. Registration closes at 8:30am and all children arriving after this time, will need to register with the School Office on arrival. Lateness is recorded and monitored closely. Persistent lateness and/or absence from school will clearly affect a pupil’s achievement and learning.

On the day of your parent information meeting, please make your way to The Gables where you will be met by staff.

Parking for the meetings will be on the School Field, please avoid parking on the local residential roads.

Children and their Crackley Hall siblings will be looked after by staff for the duration of the meeting only (4:15pm to 4:45pm or 5:15pm for the Junior 6 meeting). Please ensure you collect your children as usual from carline and bring them to The Gables for just before 4:15pm. When collecting your children, please ensure that they are signed out by a member of staff.

If you have any questions regarding the meetings please contact sharonmcaloon@crackleyhall.co.uk

Thank you in advance

From September 2024 Aftercare will need to be booked through My School Portal.  You will be able to book the whole term in advance, and you are able to cancel this yourself, should you need to.

https://princethorpe.myschoolportal.co.uk/login 

The sessions available are:

Session 1 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm (includes drink and biscuit)

Session 2 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm (includes tea)

Both Sessions - 3:30pm to 6:00pm (includes drink, biscuit and tea)

The costs for Aftercare are £5.00 per hour, or part thereof. You will only be charged for the time that your child spends in Aftercare.

If you require tea, please ensure that you have booked by 12:00pm on the day.

Please ensure that you book Aftercare in good time, as the School Office will be unable to log in to book Aftercare on your behalf.

Aftercare will be open for booking on Friday 30 August from 6:00pm

Club Timetable

Michaelmas 2024 Clubs Timetable

Some clubs are very popular or may have limited numbers. If you find that you don’t get a place in a club, please email the organiser/teaching staff running the club to ask if you can be put onto the waiting list for the next half term/term. You will then be given first refusal.

External Clubs

If you wish your child to be registered for one of our externally provided clubs, please do contact them directly at your earliest convenience for registration, booking and payment. Flyers and/or details of our external clubs are provided below. Email/contact details for each are also included in the timetable above - please search under the tab for your child’s year group. Please do use these details to contact the providers in the first instance should you have any queries regarding registration for external clubs.

Fencing Club Junior 1 and 2 Lunchtime Club - https://wix.to/06brtlr

Fencing Club Junior 4, 5 and 6 Afterschool Club - https://wix.to/tOg5NE3

Tennis

Complete Cricket

Rugby Tots

KS1 Clubs Contact Information

KS2 Clubs Contact Information

Club Start Dates
Due to planned parent information evenings involving staff, all clubs will start on the third week of term (w/b 16 September).
For EXTERNALLY PROVIDED clubs, please refer to the details that will have been sent to you by that provider on registering with them, as they will stipulate their start date.

SOCS Registration
SOCS is now open for registration. Some clubs have limited numbers and these tend to book up very quickly, so please put a reminder into your diaries.
Externally run clubs should only be registered on SOCS once you have contacted the external providers and have confirmed registration. It is important that you contact them directly to secure a place.

What you need to do now
Read the timetable carefully and discuss with your child what they would like to do. Please ensure your child is aware of which clubs you sign them up for. They might have to make a choice between clubs.
Contact any external providers as soon as you are able in order to register with them (for those clubs that don’t have registration documents attached, please contact the provider using the email listed on the spreadsheet).
Log in to SOCS using the link: https://www.socscms.com/login/25085/pupil to register your child for their clubs. Use YOUR CHILD’s school email address as a username. The password is Crackley19.

Registration will remain open until the end of Friday 6 September.

Morning Drop Off

If using the carline, please move carefully around the roundabout before dropping your child off. Do not stop in the middle of carline, do not block in parked cars or empty spaces and do not use the staff parking spaces.

If you need to walk your child into school, or need to come in for any reason, please use the Lower Playground to park considerately, before making your way into school.

The Sports Field is always open for parking in the morning, please consider parking here and walking over to school to alleviate congestion. Please do not park in the local residential roads where possible. 

Afternoon Collection 

Please arrive promptly at your child’s collection time, as arriving early can cause unnecessary congestion. If using the carline, please move carefully around the roundabout, being extremely aware of pedestrians and other cars.

If you need to come into school for any reason, please use the Lower Playground to park considerately, before making your way into school.

The Sports Field is always open for parking in the afternoon, please consider parking here and walking over to school to alleviate congestion. Please do not park in the local residential roads where possible.

The Foundation is constantly looking closely at all ways to reduce our costs and consequently keep our fees as low as possible - not least with the announcement that VAT will be chargeable on tuition fees from January 2025.  

One significant cost, despite having a highly competitive agreement, relates to the charges we incur when fees are paid by debit or credit card, currently in the region of £50,000 per annum. Direct debit and bank transfer are entirely without additional costs. 

We want to start saving money without delay, so have withdrawn the card payment option. If you currently pay by card, we would now ask you to please pay your fees by one of the following alternative methods:  

• direct debit – a form is attached, please sign and return the form to the School Office marked for the attention of the Bursary (fees are due on the first day of term so please allow sufficient time for processing);  direct bank transfer - bank details can be found on our website and your termly invoice;  
• school fee plan - leaflet attached.    
• Whilst we recognise that paying by card is a convenient option for some parents, we believe that it is better to use this money to help reduce the amount payable by all parents from January. This is one of a range of cost saving measures we will be implementing over the coming year. 

School Fee Plan Leaflet

DD Instruction

We apologise for the short notice, but hope you will understand that by working together we can reduce the impact of the imposition of VAT.  

Eddie Tolcher
Foundation Bursar

Informing the School of pupil absence

Parents must inform the school via the online absence form on My School Portal or telephone 01926 514444 and leave a voicemail on Option 1, as soon as possible, before 9:00am, if they know that their child will not be in school for either the whole day or any part thereof. For unplanned absence, parents must complete the Absence Form. This can be found on the dashboard or in the My Children section of My School Portal.

If a pupil has a pre-planned appointment, e.g. medical, please inform the school in advance on the Requesting Student Absence: Planned Form, which can be found within the My Children section of My School Portal. This can then be pre-coded on our attendance system. Having alerted the school for any reason of absence it is not necessary to follow up the absence with a written note.

We ask that, where possible, all pupil appointments (e.g. medical or dental) are made out of school hours, to avoid disruption to learning.

Holidays

Parents are strongly discouraged from taking their children out of school and family holidays should always be taken in the school holiday period which is published over a year in advance. Permission for leave of absence for valid reasons such as a family funeral, should be sought in writing and in advance via My School Portal, with as much notice as possible.  Pupils with persistent absence may be asked to provide medical evidence.

Diarrhoea and Vomiting 

Children must stay off school for 48 hours after the last instance of diarrhoea or vomiting.

Short-Term Medicines 

In general, most short-term medicines, e.g. antibiotics, cough medicine, seasonal hay fever medication etc should be managed so that it is not necessary for the medicines to come into school.

If this is not possible, the medication should be brought to the School Office by yourself, not your child, in it's original packaging, clearly named with your child’s name and class, and with a completed Administration of Medication Form. 

Long-Term Medicines

If your child suffers with a chronic medical condition and has been prescribed medication to take whilst at school, the medication should be brought to the School Office by yourself, not your child, in it’s original packaging, clearly named with your child’s name and class, and with a completed Administration of Medication Form. 

Further documentation may need to be completed, e.g. Inhaler Consent Form, Care Plan etc. Please discuss this with the School Office.

Administration of Medication Form

Individual Care Plan

Inhaler Consent Form

Asthma Individual HealthCare Plan

HS2 has shared information about the forthcoming closure of the A429 Kenilworth Road from Monday 2 September to Sunday 29 September. Please ensure you allow plenty of time for the journey to school.

Monday 16 September to Friday 27 September

• Stop-go boards will be operated as required during off peak hours between 9.30am to 3.30pm Monday to Friday only. We will be undertaking further surveys and verge maintenance.

Monday 30 September to Friday 25 October

• A 24/7 full road closure of A429 Kenilworth Road will be in place for four weeks. A fully signposted diversion will be in place.

More information is available here: HS2 Poster