Headmaster's Welcome
Dear Parents
I hope this week’s Chronicle finds you well and not too windswept. We even needed to take the precaution of closing part of our playground area this week when the winds were particularly high and could potentially cause branches to fall. Hopefully the worst of the storm has now passed and we can all enjoy some autumnal sunshine this weekend.
This week has seen some wonderful results for our U10A football team, history sessions come alive, new student councillors announced, a new PTA committee elected and a warm welcome to our new parents.
I was delighted, along with Mr Cottrill, to be available to coach our U10A football team at Princethorpe this week. Mr Cottrill and I were incredibly proud of the way the boys played, beating all opponents without conceding a goal, as well as with the end result. Congratulations to our team who won the Princethorpe Year 5 competition – a thoroughly well-deserved victory boys! I should like to express my thanks to the Games Department (led by Mr McCollin), especially Miss Carminati and her team at Princethorpe for their excellent organisation of a super event.
I enjoyed welcoming our new parents at the start of the week when we opened our doors on Monday evening for an informal ‘New Parents’ Welcome Evening’. I hope that those of you who attended found it informative and enjoyable and I am sure that we will see you all again at various occasions during this term. Please know that we are always available to listen and help where possible.
On Wednesday evening our wonderful PTA held their AGM and the new committee for 2018/2019 was announced. Lucy Lamb is our new Chair; my thanks are extended to her for taking on this role. Thank you, also, to everyone else who has accepted roles on the committee. I am hugely grateful to the PTA and their extended team who work tirelessly to support Crackley Hall. The events that they organise and funds raised for school benefit all the children from Nursery to J6. Particular thanks are extended to Kara, Wendy, Gill and Julie for their involvement during their term of office on the PTA. I look forward to working with the new team on the many projects that they will no doubt become involved in. Don’t forget the MacMillan Coffee Morning next Friday and the Barn Dance that takes place following Saturday, 29 September.
Congratulations to our stars of the week: Gian, Warwick, Elizabeth, Isaac, Leo, Penny, Nikhil, Harry, Rosa, Harry, Davi, Lucas, Jack, Charlie and Jared.
Our rugby teams got off to a very good start in their matches against Ratcliffe and Bilton Grange – well done to all of them. Our U10A footballers are in action again on Monday when they take part in the ISA Midlands 5-a-side Tournament.
Congratulations to all our pupils who achieved so well at their clubs and individually over the past weekend – I am delighted to see and hear how active they are and to learn of their outstanding achievements. Special congratulations are extended to Aryan Mehta on his success in various tennis tournaments, most notably his first place at Edgbaston recently and his selection to the Warwickshire training squad.
I hope you all have a restful weekend with your families.
God Bless
Robert Duigan
