The Chronicle

Combed hair, pressed uniforms and polished shoes whizzed around the playground last Monday morning as Crackley's 2018/19 cohort crossed the school threshold for the first time. Old friends were reacquainted and new friends were made as our students enjoyed getting to know each other. 

We trust this year will be a successful one, filled with the joy of learning and friendships that will last a lifetime. We wish everyone every success for the year and ask you to believe in yourself.

May your hard work make all your dreams come true.

Mr Duigan had the great pleasure of introducing our new student body for 2018-2019 and the school prefects for the Michaelmas term. Their badges of office were presented at the beginning of the J6 Leavers Assembly.  A list of the roles is included below.

Head Girl: Francesca Kelly

Head Boy: Joe McCullough

Deputy Head Girl: Caitlin Horan

Deputy Head Boy: Freddie Knott

RE Captain: Maddie Lambeth

Girls' Games Captain: Hannah Wildey

Vice Girls' Games Captain: Amisha Modi

Boys' Games Captain: Sam James

Vice Boys' Games Captain: Toby Lucas

Music Captain: Andrea Zanyi

Performing Arts Captain: Isabella Osborne

Library Captain: Annamaria Kordas

Vice Library Captain: Evangeline Upstone-Wells

Jupiter House Captain: Sebastian Owen

Mars House Captain: Isla Berger

Saturn House Captain: India Ferguson

Venus House Captain: Cecilia Holdgate

J6 Student Councillors: Carys Warrener, Olivia Swinson, Dylan Williams, Andrew Gordon, Alistair Darnell & Martha Harris

With a little over nine weeks to go, the countdown to Princethorpe's Entrance Exams for admission in September 2019 has begun. This year the exams for Year 7 to 10 entry will take place on Saturday 10 November from 9.30am to 3.30pm.

The College's friendly Admissions Team has been kept busy over the summer accepting registrations from prospective parents.  The deadline for registrations is ideally Friday 5 October, to enable the seeking of references from junior schools. Junior 6 parents wishing their children to sit the exams do need to complete a registration form and submit it with the accompanying registration fee by this date.

There are plenty of opportunities for prospective pupils and their parents to visit the College before the Entrance Exams, including the College's Open Morning on Thursday 27 September from 10.30am to 12.30pm, when pupil tour guides will be available to show visitors around the school. 

Comments Melanie Butler, Assistant Head, Marketing, Admissions and Communications, "Parents and pupils still have plenty of time to prepare and opportunities to visit the College in the run up to the exams.  The results will be out at the end of November, making for an exam-free Christmas holiday, which has got to be good news."

For more information on the admissions process click here to visit the Admissions Update newsletter.

If you have any queries relating to admissions please feel free to email the Registrars at admissions@princethorpe.co.uk or call them on 01926 634201.

This week Mrs Roberts, Crackley's Science Coordinator, championed the cause of all things science with a spectacular Mad Science show.  Pupils were amazed and entertained in equal measure as they learnt about science.  They saw water disappear (courtesy of sodium polyacrylate), toilet paper fly (explained by the Bernoulli theory of lift) and to cap it all off a genie release (by virtue of gaseous oxygen release when two compounds were mixed).

There were plenty of chemical reactions on show, and experiments that firstly appeared as magic soon made sound scientific sense.

Many thanks to Mrs Roberts for organising the event.  The popularity of Mad Science club shows that the subject of science is alive and well at Crackley. All Club applications need to be handed back to the office to ensure they are processed, so please don't delay. 

Crackley Hall children and staff were out in force to welcome the OVO Energy Tour of Britain cyclists as they raced past the school on Wednesday morning on Stage 4 of the event. It was super exciting for the children who were lined up along the main road that runs past the school. Everyone cheered enthusiastically as the leaders and then the peloton flew past followed by their accompanying cars and police out-riders.

It made for a memorable treat in the first week of term.

Crackley Hall was delighted this week to receive photos showing children in Malawi proudly sporting Crackley colours.

Earlier this year the school donated old school uniform and PE kit to Bwengu Projects Malawi, a Rugby based charity regularly supported by fellow Foundation junior school Crescent School.  Over the summer the clothes were taken out to Africa by some of their volunteers and donated to children in six schools.

It is wonderful to see it all being put to such good use.