The Courier

Dear Parents

We have been working on a new and exciting version of the school promise and would like to invite you to an information evening after school on Tuesday 24 April in the school hall.  Please come to the hall at the end of the school day and we will aim to start the presentation at 4.00pm.

At the meeting the School Councillors will be telling the story of how we put the new promise together and how it will be used in school in the future. As a school, one of our core aims is to provide a caring and supportive environment that enables the children to achieve their absolute best and the new promise is a really important part of how we want to achieve this.

Early next term all the children will be receiving their own Z-card (style of leaflet) with the new promise on which will include a place for you and your child to sign up to show your commiment. Again, we will tell you more about this on the evening.

Please put the date in your diary and do come along if you can. Your children are welcome to accompany you and it shouldn’t take longer than 30 minutes.

Best wishes

Joe Thackway
Headmaster

A big thank you to all the children, parents, families and friends who attended our Open Morning on Saturday 24 March 2018.

There was a lovely buzz around the school, the children are very proud of their school and do enjoy showing it off to you and our visitors. We hope you took pleasure in the occasion and we look forward to welcoming you into school again at our next open corridors event after school on Friday 11 May 2018.

This year Crescent School will be joining other schools across the country in shadowing the judging process for the Kate Greenaway Medal.

The shortlists for the 2018 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals, the UK’s oldest book awards for children and young people, were revealed earlier this month.  They celebrate the best in children’s writing and illustration and are unique in being judged by children’s librarians.

Children and young people 'shadow' the judging process for both the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards; they read, discuss and review the books on each shortlist selected by CILIP's panel of Librarian judges, rating the books and voting on their favourites.

The Foundation's senior school Princethorpe College has shadowed the Carnegie medal for a number of years and found it introduces participating pupils to new books they otherwise might not have read.

This year Crescent School is going to join in.  The school is looking for children from Year 3 and above to join our shadowing panel.  They will need to read, discuss and review the seven shortlisted books.  Children interested in joining in should come along to Library Club.  All the children who get involved will rate the books and vote on their favourites.  It will be interesting to see if we pick the same winner as the actual judges do!

If you would like to find out more, please talk to Ms Lowe or Mrs Calder.

Crescent School’s Year 4 pupil, Josh Gorbutt swam superbly at the recent Year 3/4 Rugby Primary Schools Swimming Gala winning the Year 4 Boys 25m Breaststroke and earning himself the Gala Award for the swimmer who shows the most promise.

The gala took place on Wednesday 21 March at The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Centre, Rugby.  For a number of children, especially the younger ones, this was their very first competition and the size of the venue and the crowd were more than a little overwhelming but they stayed focused and harnessed their nerves to all swim superbly. 

Josh was not the only Crescent success story at the gala as the school claimed three Town titles.  George Crowfoot won the Year 3 25m Breaststroke race and Rania Akbik, Sienna Moran and Issy Thompson won the Year 4 Girls Freestyle Relay (3 x 25m).

A number of Crescent School’s pupils were also in the placings with:

• Hattie Sarkies - 2nd place - Year 3 25m Breaststroke 
• Amy Robinson - 3rd place - Year 3 25m Backstroke 
• Henry Corbin - 3rd place - Year 4 25m Backstroke
• Henry Corbin, Connor Kennedy and Josh Gorbutt - Year 4 Boys Freestyle Relays - 3rd Place 
• Eve Ferguson - 4th place - Year 3 25m Freestyle
• Connor Kennedy - 4th place - Year 4 25m Freestyle
• Issy Thompson - 4th place - Year 4 25m Freestyle 

Head of Girls Games, Rachel McCollin, commented, “What a fantastic effort from all of Crescent’s swimmers, they swam superbly and conducted themselves excellently.  This is a fabulous set of results for the school.”