The Courier

It was non-uniform day in school today where children and staff wore clothes with a 'Superhero' theme in aid of Children's Air Ambulance. School Council representatives made up games for pupils to take part in before school.  

Winners from the games will be announced next term along with the total raised.

Enjoy the collage of photos.

Ms Clark and Mrs Stapleton

This week children across the school participated in class workshops to learn more about Nigerian culture. Led by some of our parents of Nigerian origin, over two days pupils gained a fascinating insight into this giant of Africa.

On Wednesday, 1Q, 2E and 2W enjoyed a traditional Nigerian story, Queen Moremi Makes A Promise. The story is based on a real-life Yoruba queen, Olori Moremi, who lived over 800 years ago and teaches about the importance of being a good friend, staying resilient and keeping a promise, which sounded an awful lot like some of the key tenets of our own Crescent Promise. Dr Akinremi and Mrs Akinola-Amadi enthusiastically acted out the story bringing the characters vividly to life. The children all really enjoyed the traditional tale.

5F also welcomed visitors, Dr and Dr Oshungbohun, supported by Toni, they told the class about the traditions associated with Yoruba Nigerian weddings; celebrations that always involve lots of people and are colourful, carnival like affairs. 5F got to act out some of the traditions and Ms Forth was mightily impressed with the respectful bows (they could become a requirement for all her classes!)

Then on Thursday 6W, 4C, 3SS, 3LS and the Reception class took part in their workshops. Dr Ladele gave an engaging talk on Nigerian sports heroes and was impressed with how many of the heroes and sports that pupils could name. He also taught Year 6 a tribal war chant and had them all up dancing and singing the uplifting and encouraging Buga.

Dr Chime, Mrs Remi-Omosowon and Mrs Adegite shared the traditional Nigerian folktale How The Tortoise Got His Cracked Shell bringing the story to life using puppets and music. It was a fabulous colourful tale reminding us all that pride comes before a fall and the children were mesmerised, listening intently and really enjoyed the story.

It has been fantastic for the children here at Crescent School to learn more about the culture of their classmates through the assembly earlier this month and this week’s workshops. We very much appreciate our Nigerian families helping us to have a better understanding of what it means to be from Nigeria.

Staff and pupils at Crescent School said a fond farewell to one of their long-serving dinner ladies today. Mrs Jane Slatcher has worked at the school for 27 years and will be sadly missed by all the staff, and especially by the children.

After serving up thousands of school dinners, Mrs Slatcher is moving on. She is staying in catering but will be working less hours alongside former Crescent chef Mr Moore. We gave Mrs Slatcher a special Crescent send off this morning in assembly when she was presented with a book filled full of messages from the children and staff along with a gift voucher to spend on her much loved garden.

Mrs Slatcher said the school had been a huge part of her life since she started back in 1996 and that she would miss the Crescent very much. Over the years she has enjoyed watching the children grow up and seen three headmasters at the school.

Joe Thackway, Headmaster, said, “Mrs Slatcher has been a wonderful and popular member of our school community feeding generations of children who have passed through the dining hall. We will all miss her.”

Farewell Mrs Slatcher and good luck!

A group of superheroines gathered last week to conquer an inflatable 5K course at Stratford-Upon-Avon racecourse to raise money for Myton Hospice.

Mrs Barnett, Mrs Gupta, Mrs Emery, Miss Quirke, Ms Hanson, Mrs Chang, Mrs McCollin and Miss V all climbed and crawled through the obstacles and ran round the racecourse with loads of smiles and laughter for the worthy cause.

If you would like to donate to the fundraiser they started, please visit their JustGiving page for more details on the story at Crescent Crew fundraising for The Myton Hospices.

As part of Maths Week on Tuesday 14 November, Times Table Rock Stars is holding a national competition. You must play any game to score points for your class. The highest classes in the country will win prizes. The more people who play the better. The tournament does not start for a couple of weeks, but get practising or familiarise yourself with TT Rockstars, especially in 1Q if you have not had a go yet. This can be half term fun on a rainy day.

Stay Calm and Rock on

Art Frizzmeister- Deputy Head