The Courier

Dear Parents

Three weeks into term and the summer is already starting to seem a long way away. With the evenings drawing in and the stormy weather we have all become aware of the changing seasons. This Sunday marks the autumn equinox which always feels to me like an important turning point in the calendar. We mentioned this in assembly on Friday so you might want to explore this further with your children over the weekend.

On a similar seasonal theme, earlier in the week we had a visit from Corinne from the Rugby Foodbank as part of our build up to this year’s harvest celebrations. She led a lovely assembly on the theme of sharing. This is a great message for young children to hear and they were certainly all very focused on the presentation. Thank you to those of you who have already dropped off tins and packages and we will continue to welcome donations in the run up to our harvest service on Friday 12 October.

At Crescent we offer a range of online learning platforms to enhance the children’s learning and enable you as parents to take an active role in supporting their learning from home. There was a very useful presentation on this for parents in the week and I hope this proved helpful for all those who attended.

I have been able to rearrange some of my set meeting times this year with the view to getting along to more of the school fixtures and supporting our children. I made a good start to this on Monday watching our U10s in a tournament over at Princethorpe College. I was really impressed with the quality of the football they produced and their tenacity in competing with some of the bigger teams in the competition. I am going through my diary and trying to highlight the games I can come along to this term so hopefully I will see you on the touchline at some point if your children are involved.

This week we tried out a new voting system to help us select the House Captains for the year. The Year 3 to 6 children heard brief speeches from the candidates and then chose who they felt kept the School Promise the best, as well as being a responsible character with the right team ethic for the job.  These are important posts in the school and much coveted by the children, even more so this year with the new duty system for Year 6 coming into effect. This coincided during the week with elections for the School Council. We hope that the elections have given the children a gentle introduction to some democratic principles as well as allowing them to feel that they have genuinely been a part of the selection process. Good luck to those children who have been chosen and were announced in assembly this morning.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Joe Thackway

Congratulations to our newly elected House Captains, who received their badges in assembly on Friday. They will have lots to do in their new role and their first job will be to sort out the rotas for the Class VI team duties around the school.

We wish them all the best in their new roles.

• St. Georges – Lily Emery and Olivia Fox
• St. Davids -  Cara Ridd and Olivia Monk
• St. Andrews – Finlay Calder and Rebecca Monteith

Congratulations also goes to the following children, who have been chosen this week by their classmates to be on School Council: 

• Class I - Shiv Patel and Alice Diamond
• Class II - Freddie Spicer and Grace Crowfoot
• Class III - Charlotte Corbin and Rory King
• Class IV - Joshua Olner and Emme Edge
• Class VF - Phoebe Causer and Joseph Yates
• Class VY - Millie Knott & Matthew Thomas

They received their School Council badges in assembly on Friday.

Well done to all.

For a two or three week period this year we will be focusing on one of the sayings in the new School Promise. We will talk about this in assembly and in form period. It would be great if you could discuss this with your children at home and support the messages we are emphasising in school.

This week we move on to the category of Good Learners and a good motto for our Class VI children as they approach their entrance exams:

‘We work hard and try our best'