The Courier

Children will have brought home the photo pack proofs of their Class and Group photos on Tuesday 5 June.  In order to attain a speedy delivery of the photographs Mr Lloyd (the photographer) has asked if parents/guardians could do the following:

• Please write in the box beneath each photograph the choice of photograph style labelled: A. B. C. D.
• Complete the information on the envelope included with the proof cards
• If paying by cheque, please write your child's proof card photo security number and preferred photograph type (as well as indicating this on the photograph), on the reverse of the cheque. For example: Photo Security Number Box A Photo 1 or Photo Security Number Box B Photo 2 or both
• Place the correct amount of money in the envelopes along with the proof card(s).
• In order to receive free delivery, the deadline for return of proof cards to school is Tuesday 12 June.

Orders can be made online, however, a postal cost will be incurred via this method and is at the sole discretion of the printers, not the photographer.

Please do contact Mr Lloyd if you have any queries, his email address is on the proof.
 
Crescent School

On Tuesday 5 June local Rugby residents Tony and Sue Melia, from Bwengu Projects Malawi, visited the Crescent School to receive a cheque for £1409.02.  The cheque was presented to Tony and Sue by Class IV pupils Tumi, Archie and Euan, in a whole school assembly.

The Crescent School has been supporting the work that Tony and Sue do for eleven years, in fact the school was one of the charity’s first supporters back in 2007 when they donated books for school libraries, one of the charity’s early projects.  Each year the Class IV children at the Crescent School study Africa and in particular Malawi and the work that the Bwengu Projects is involved in.  Studying the challenges the people in Malawi face helps the children to appreciate the similarities and differences in our societies.

At the end of their topic the children choose specific Bwengu Projects to support and go on to organise fundraising activities that the whole school participates in.  This year the Class IV pupils have raised money in a number of enterprising ways including building a penny path, enduring a sponsored silence, organising collections at the school’s Easter Service and Spring Concert and running non-uniform days and a treasure hunt. 

For 2018 the children chose two projects to fundraise for, and set themselves a target of £930 to raise in order to fund 20 school bursaries. Each bursary provides a secondary school place for a child for a year, the children also decided to fund two UNICEF standard school toilet blocks. 

Bryony Forth, Deputy Head, commented, “Supporting the Bwengu Project is always a highlight of my teaching year, something of which I personally am very proud to be part of.  The children enjoy studying Bwengu and comparing 'A Village Less Economically Developed than Rugby'.  Over the years we must have raised over £8,000 and helped pay for renovating schools, building a Women's Development Centre, sewing machines, a teacher's salary and some 58,500 meals for orphans.”

She continued, “The children worked incredibly hard this year organising lots of events and have raised a grand total of £1409.02.  Our biggest total ever and we are very proud of them.”

Tony and Sue Melia, were overwhelmed, they commented, “This is really wonderful, our aims are very simple, our projects in Malawi support education.  It is difficult to ask a question of those that lead you, if you cannot read, write or even count.  Our philosophy is simply helping the many to help themselves.  The Crescent children help unlock that opportunity for children in Malawi.”

On Tuesday 5 June Crescent School welcomed Year 2 children from Crackley Hall School, Dunchurch Infant School and Leamington Hastings Infant School.  Together with Crescent’s own Class II the children all enjoyed an afternoon of Infant Agility sporting fun.  Hosted by Crescent’s Class VI the children participated in a round robin of activities designed to develop their running, throwing, bouncing, pitching, stepping and jumping skills. 

For most of the 45 children involved this was their first experience of a school sports festival and of competing alongside children from other schools.  The children were mixed into six different groups and moved round the field together, spending 10 minutes at each activity.

The event was all about participation, fun and being the best you could be. Class VI demonstrated the activity and then encouraged the younger children to take part.  All the children were impressive, participating enthusiastically and with determination to do their best.

It was a lovely sunny afternoon and the accompanying parents clearly enjoyed watching their children taking part and the refreshments offered.

At the end of the afternoon the organiser of the event, Head of Pre-Prep, Mr Alan Webb thanked everyone for coming, commenting on how well everyone had done, their enthusiasm and especially their sporting behaviour.

Headmaster, Mr Joe Thackway, added his thanks, especially to Crescent’s Class VI for their help running the event.  Mr Thackway then presented all of the participants with a well-deserved certificate.

Please note that the School Shop at Princethorpe College moves into appointment only for new starters across the Foundation schools from Monday 23 July until Monday 3 September 2018.

The shop will be open as normal until Friday 6 July. If you are looking for items to top up your current uniform needs then please take this into account and order accordingly to allow delivery to school for collection prior to this date.