The Chronicle

Junior 6 pupil, Charlotte, Junior 1 pupils, Rosie and Emma, and 2024 leaver, Sara, have all been recognised in the Independent Schools’ Association’s Midlands Area Art Competition.

The ISA Art Competition takes place annually, inviting participation from all pupils at ISA schools. Ms Holmes selected great examples of the children’s artwork and entered them into the Midlands Area competition.

Charlotte’s painting You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry, which she produced last year while in Junior 5, has been awarded second place in the Key Stage 2 2D class. Rosie received a Highly Commended for her work Arctic Fox in the EYFS and Key Stage 1 2D class. Emma was recognised with a Highly Commended for her piece Self Portrait In A Frame in the EYFS and Key Stage 1 3D Art class. Finally, Sara received a Highly Commended for her Banksy Sustainability Tribute in the Key Stage 2 class.

Schools are allowed to submit one piece of work per class so to have four pupils recognised in the competition is amazing and we congratulate all of the talented artists on their success.

A team of 25 swimmers from Crackley Hall School made the journey to Walsall Baths on Tuesday 15 October to compete in the Independent Schools Association’s (ISA) Midlands Junior Swimming Gala.

With 32 schools competing, and over 350 pupils, Juniors 4, 5 and 6 knew it was going to be a very competitive event. The children swam 25m in the pool and the races included both individual events and exciting team relays. For some of the children it was their very first experience of competitive galas but as always Crackley Hall’s pupils encouraged each other, from the start through to the finish of every single race.

Three pupils swam superbly and earned themselves a place on the podium. Across the team, Crackley’s swimmers put in strong performances with a number just missing out on medals.

Individual medals were awarded to:

• Gold – Charlotte P (Year 6 freestyle, qualified for nationals)
• Silver – Oscar W (Year 4 Breaststroke)
• Bronze – Charlotte P (Year 6 butterfly)
• Bronze – William G (Year 4 backstroke)

Team Top 3s (all in large school category)

• 3rd – Year 4 Girls
• 3rd – Year 6 Girls
• 3rd – Year 4 Boys

Overall points:

• 2nd – Crackley Hall's Girls

Crackley Head of Games, Rich Stedeford, said, “As always there was a fabulous atmosphere poolside, with the whole team willing each other on. We had some excellent swims and tight finishes, Crackley has some very determined children. Many congratulations to our medal winners.”

Well done to all of Crackley Hall’s swimmers we are very proud of you all.

Junior 5 pupil Patrick has raised an astounding £220 for Cancer Research by selling pumpkins lovingly grown on his farm to pupils and parents.

With the help of his poster, he has promoted his pumpkin sales and sold so many that he had to keep bringing in pumpkins each day for pupils to take home. 

Well done, Patrick!

We have had a fantastic afternoon of House fun to round off the half-term. Children from Years 3 to 6 gathered excitedly in the school hall to cheer on their house-mates as they took on the exciting KS2 annual House Music Competition.

Each house had three acts and joining us for the afternoon to act as our judge for the second year running for the Instrumental and Vocal finals was retired music teacher, Heather Nadin.

The House Captains introduced the acts from their houses:

Mars:

Edward - singing.

Eloise - Guitar

Sloan - singing

Jupiter:

Leo - rapping

Tristan - Piano

Chace - Singing

Venus:

Angelica - Cello

Jessie - Singing

Evie - Singing

Saturn:

Gracie - Singing

Diya - Piano and Singing

After hearing all of the amazing performances and considering carefully, Heather declared the winners to be:-

The results for the Houses:

1st - Mars

2nd - Venus

3rd - Jupiter and Saturn.

Winner of the singing category was Jessie.

Winner of the Instrumental category was Angelica.

Many thanks to all who helped with the afternoon’s fun and especially to Heather, Mr Vaughan who arranged the event, and to Mrs Olden who ran the auditions and arranged the music for the event.

Crackley Hall has bid farewell to caretaker and Crackley Hall supreme Carline Traffic Officer, Michael Luis. Mr Luis has been with the Foundation for over eight years; four years at Princethorpe and the remainder at Crackley Hall. Luis, who spent 34 years as a Regular and Reserve in the RAF, is an avid cyclist, will be semi-retiring and spending more time with his grandchildren, and fitting in a spot of golf too! We wish Luis all the best and thank him for all his hard work at Crackley Hall School.

We would like to extend a heartfelt thank you for the generous donations during this month of harvest for our local foodbank. We were delighted with the response and with the quantity of donations received. The Warwick District Foodbank collected the donations today and our RE Captains and some of our school councillors were on hand to help load donations. Each month we will ask a different class to bring in donations so we can continue to support this important community endeavour throughout the year. Thank you again for your continued support.

Junior 6, Charlotte has just won a local competition to design the 80th Birthday Badge for Leamington based, Dale Street Scout and Guide Group. Her winning design has been turned into a badge to be handed out to all the cubs and leaders and to celebrate her competition win, it was even printed on a cake.

Well done Charlotte, it is lovely to see you putting all your Art and Design skills to good use!