The Courier

Super huge good luck to Ellie, Roisin and Maxi who head off to the London Aquatics Centre in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park this weekend to swim for the Midlands team at the ISA National Swimming Championships. Ellie will swim in the Year 6 Butterfly, Medley Relay and the Freestyle Relay, Roisin in the Year 5 Breaststroke and Freestyle Relay and Maxi will swim in the Year 4 Freestyle Relay. Your Crescent classmates and community will all be cheering you on!

Christmas Art Day is such a special day at Crescent School; full of anticipation, paint, tissue paper, stickers, googly eyes and, dare we say it, even a little eco-friendly glitter. The children really enjoyed themselves, producing lots of super, creative artwork. It was all a lot of fun.   

Christmas Art Day is a Crescent tradition and one we all enjoy very much!   

Here are just a few photos from some of the classrooms. Please click View Gallery to scroll through.

After school on Wednesday 30 November, Alexandria and Niamh from 1Q completed a 50-lap challenge around the playground for Birmingham Children's Hospital, a charity very close to the Crescent community. They both ran 25 laps each running a total of 2.53 miles each in 30 minutes to raise money. 

Thank you to all of their generous sponsors, helping to support this worthy cause. They were ably supported by classmates and teachers as well as Mr Thackway who ran a lap with them.

Once all the pledges have been collected the girls will have raised over £600.00.

Well done girls, we are very proud of you.

Crescent School

Ms Forth celebrated a 'special' birthday in school today. Children gave a rousing rendition of Happy Birthday in Assembly where she was presented with flowers.

It also wouldn't be a birthday without a cake from Mrs Mercer.

We hope you have had a lovely day Ms Forth.

Crescent School 

We love sharing Christmas cards here at Crescent School but we ask that all cards are put in our special Christmas postbox which we will situate near the pupil entrance from Monday 5 December.

All cards must be in before Wednesday 14 December and they will be sorted by the Year 6 elves and handed out to pupils before the end of term.

Please put the full name of the recipient and their class on the envelope.

A donation to this term's charity, the Birmingham Children's Hospital, would be appreciated.

Mrs Webb
Assistant Head

Pupils enjoyed decorating their House Christmas Trees on Wednesday 30 November for the school’s annual competition. Lights were unravelled and artistically draped, decorations created and hung, tinsel wrapped around the branches and, of course, the House mascots were positioned carefully at the top. Mr Thackway visited the three trees, located in Reception, the link to the Horton Centre and the Mortimer Suite, and was very impressed. He announced the winners in assembly today. Many congratulations to Red House. To be honest though – we think they are all smashing. Well done everyone, the countdown to Christmas has begun!

If any parents missed the Book Fair then please take a look at the Scholastic Book Club 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.

Book Club

Please place your order online by Tuesday 6 December 2022.

Last school year, Bwengu Projects asked Crescent School to support a whole project, the completion of a Nursery and Orphan Feeding Centre in Mleghu Nsangu in the most northern part of Malawi. The Year 4 children set themselves a target of £685 to fund the building work but managed to raise a whopping £1,110.

This week, Bwengu Projects shared an update on the Nursery and Orphan Feeding Centre. They told us that 48 children are registered for feeding each day, 31 are aged 2 to rising 5. These 31 children attend lessons each day as part of Bwengu Project’s first combined feeding station and early learning scheme. The project aims to ensure that the children are taught early reading, writing and number skills before they progress to state primary education at age 5. Bwengu Projects is pleased with the progress so far and are continuing to monitor the initiative with a view to expanding the scheme to other remote villages.

The team at Bwengu Projects want to say a really big thank you to the school, its pupils and parents from all the staff and village and orphan children who attend the centre each day.

Bwengu Projects also shared news that the Charity Commission has just posted Bwengu Projects 2021 accounts showing that over 99% of donor funds are spent directly on projects.

Year 4 will once again be raising money for Bwengu Projects this school year, after Christmas in the Lent Term 2023.

Thank you all for your generous contribution to this year's Poppy Appeal, Crescent School raised an amazing £350.23! 

Crescent School