The Courier

Dear Parents

This will be the last ‘full-fat’ version of the Courier this term, although we will be putting out a ‘light’ version on Wednesday of next week. As the term has progressed, I hope you have all enjoyed the Courier and found it a useful source of information for all things Crescent-related. Many thanks to all the staff who have contributed regularly to it during the term and an enormous amount of credit should also go to the office team who work so hard preparing all the stories each week. Claire Tucker, who is something of a perfectionist when it comes to the Courier, finally pulls it together and I hope that you have all enjoyed the final product each Friday. We are already planning new ways to improve our communication with you in all respects, so please do let us know if you have any feedback in this area.

One very important tool for communication is the school calendar. Again, we have worked hard to bring all of our timelines forward on this and to make sure you have a hard copy and electronic version available before the start of each new term. The Trinity Term calendar is in its final checking stage and will come out to parents on Thursday of next week. I have never known a school calendar to be 100% accurate, if you get near to 95% you are doing well although I hope we are closer to 98%, but please do use it to help you plan the term ahead. You should already have information regarding clubs and activities and we are looking at new software that will help us do this even more efficiently in the future.

My personal highlight of the week gone by was the visit on Tuesday from a trainer and owner from the Guide Dogs for the Blind. We had a lovely assembly hearing about all the good work that they do and met two of their wonderful working dogs. This was followed by a tour of the classrooms where the children got a closer look at the dogs and got to ask questions. They were very concerned to know if the dogs were ever allowed to play (they were) and how they know where to go (their owners tell them). It is a wonderful thought that for all the problems we hear about in the world, we live in a place where some people spend their lives training dogs to work with visually impaired people to provide a quality of life they could only otherwise dream of. We all feel very proud that we have raised so much money for them and for this many thanks should go to Zara Corbin and the FoC team.

Tomorrow is an important day for the school in many ways with our annual open morning. Thanks to you all for making your children available for this. I know they do love to show their parents and visitors around and are rightly proud of their classrooms, their teachers and of course the work they have done. The morning will start at 9.30am and there will be a performance of The Bee Musical from our Pre-Prep children to get us all started. I have seen the costumes, heard all the songs, seen the stage; it promises to be a real crowd pleaser.

Have a good weekend.