The Courier

Dear Parents

It is with a great sense of achievement, and some relief, that we can now safely declare the end of a successful term of learning and interaction at Crescent.  We can all look back on a term of hard work, endeavour, great resilience and adaptability. All these qualities are ones we love to promote at all times, but they have been more needed this term than ever before.

I do hope you your families are able to enjoy a well deserved break this Christmas and are able to keep safe at the same time. As I have said a number of times, we are delighted with the term we have had but we certainly can’t afford to put down our guard. The government guidance is allowing for increased mixing of households over the Christmas period, but this inevitably brings extra risk with it. The danger of another spike in the new year is clear. We have taken the measure of delivering all of our INSET training on Teams when the staff ‘meet’ on 4 January 2021.  When the children return on the 5 January, we will be reminding them all of the importance of hand washing, reducing touch points and keeping in their bubble. I know you will continue to support this message at home. We all thank you for the wonderful support you have given the school throughout this term, it has been a real team effort.

I hope you have all enjoyed the opportunity to watch our 2020 Carol Service. It is a different concept this year and of course all done on line. Great credit to Mrs Stapleton in particular for conjuring this new format out of thin air, as well as to Mrs Barnes who has shown great ingenuity getting the music up to its normal very high standard. Thanks most of all to the children, every one of whom was involved in the final thing.

Tomorrow I drive up to collect a rather lonely daughter from Sheffield. After that, I will be back in school and working until the end of the week when the plan is then to pull up the drawbridge and enjoy the simple pleasures of spending time with the family, at least for a week or so.

Whatever you have planned, I wish you all a Merry Christmas and look forward to seeing you and your children back here again, safe and sound, on Tuesday 5 January.

With festive best wishes.

Joe Thackway
Headmaster