We celebrated Diwali this week in our whole school assembly. We learnt about the Hindu story of Rama and Sita and also the Sikh story of Guru Hargobind and how he saved the 52 princes. The children were all fascinated by the stories and enjoyed sharing and finding out about this important festival.
Happy Diwali to all of our Crescent families who have been celebrating this week.
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It has been lovely to welcome parents back into school this week for our regular Quiz With Your Child sessions. It is always a super opportunity for us to explain the benefits of the Accelerated Reader scheme and for Parents to engage with their child as they complete their end of book quiz.
The Crescent’s approach to literacy is supported by Renaissance’s Accelerated Reader system. Children in Years 3 to 6 take a quiz after reading each book that tests their understanding. Its approach promotes reading for pleasure whilst ensuring the children read appropriately challenging books. It also totals up the books and words read, and we find the competitive element has a positive impact on the children’s motivation to read.
If you weren’t able to join us this week then do watch out for the next session which will be advertised in the Courier in due course.
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Today pupils had their first 'Learning Mentor Meetings' for this school year and they were very successful. Introduced last year, as part of last year's whole school target: 'To embed self-regulation to achieve high performance', the initiative supported and engaged the children in taking responsibility for their own learning.
In this initial first meeting, pupils each met with a member of staff to discuss their work. They helped the children reflect on their books, feedback and comments and their last report targets, and encouraged them to choose and agree the academic targets they want to work on in school this year. At the end of the meeting, they recorded the targets on a postcard, to help remind pupils and to allow them to share their targets with you.
All pupils from Year 1 up to Year 6 took part and the staff did not tell pupils what targets to choose. The children were all excited by the opportunity and we hope it will once again motivate their learning as they strive to achieve their own set goals. We look forward to reviewing the targets with them over the coming year.
Thank you to everyone for participating so enthusiastically and to our Year 6s for their sterling organisation of the day.
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Mr Thackway presented the LAMDA Certificates in his assembly this morning. Well done again to all the children who took their LAMDA exams and achieved amazing results.
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Every morning this week we have been collecting money for the 2021 poppy appeal. Year 6 children have been on duty, being good citizens, and selling the poppies to the rest of the school. The slap bands proved to be particularly popular and have now sold out. We are unable to obtain anymore as there’s quite a lot of demand for them across the town! However, we have had some additional items delivered today and the Year 6s will continue to sell the poppies and poppy products next week.
Many thanks to everyone for their generous donations to this really important charity.
This weekend many of our Year 6 children are taking the Princethorpe College Entrance Exam. We know they are ready to show their best and are mor than readyf or the challenge. We have been working hard to build their confidence and self-belief that they all can do it, whilst consolidating all that they have learnt through their time at Crescent.
We all wish them all good luck.
Books are always great to buy for Christmas. We are not holding a book fair this year, but we would really appreciate your support by buying from the Scholastic Book Club. The books can be delivered to school and we will let you know they have arrived so that you can collect them.
Our new Scholastic Book Club is up and running. Please click on the link below to browse the latest books and order online. For every £1 you spend on this month’s Book Club, our school will earn 20p in Scholastic Rewards.
https://schools.scholastic.co.uk/the-crescent/digital-book-club
Please place your order online by 1 December 2021.
Mrs Webb
Assistant Head
In preparation for this year’s Christmas Art Day Class 1SS would love Egg Box Donations
If you have any of these items, please donate in the box outside the front door before Monday 29 November.
The following items are stocked in the School Office and can be added to your account:
Please do contact admin@crescentschool.co.uk in if you need any of the above items.
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