The Courier

Year 6 pupils at Crescent School in Bilton, Rugby were excited to play their part in marking the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee by planting 30 trees in the school grounds on Wednesday 9 March. The planting was part of the Queen’s Green Canopy project that is both celebrating her jubilee and helping to build a greener future.

The trees, that included crab apples, willow, beech, rowan and field maples, were planted in the school’s forest school area as part of the area’s expansion project that will enable more children to benefit from forest school activities. The children have named the new area ‘Jubilee Woods’ in honour of Queen Elizabeth II.

Beckee Humphreys, Forest School Leader at Crescent School said, “We invited the Year 6 children to plant the trees as a way to leave their legacy for the children who will come after them. The trees will provide shade and nature to explore in the years to come. The children really enjoyed planting the trees, commenting on the impact it will have on future generations and on the wildlife in the area.”

Beckee joined the school this year and is excited to be expanding the forest school programme at Crescent School and helping the children explore and connect with nature. Research has found that engaging in regular forest school sessions develops children’s resilience, wellbeing, confidence and physical development.

Headmaster, Joe Thackway, added, “The children were thrilled to be part of this national celebration. Planting trees for the Platinum Jubilee has been a great way for them to engage with Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II’s celebrations, while also learning about the importance of trees to the environment. We shall all enjoy watching the trees grow over the years to come.”

The latest editions of the Minnacle and Pinnacle magazines have just been published and will be distributed to parents next week. They showcase exceptional work by pupils from across the Foundation and are an inspiring read.

The Minnacle focuses on work from pupils at the Crescent School while the Pinnacle focuses on the work of pupils at Princethorpe College.

Why not sit down and have a read of our latest celebration of their superb work. Click here to read online editions of the magazine: The Minnacle and The Pinnacle.

We have an amazing total of £738.40 raised for the Ukraine Appeal this morning. 

Thank you so much for your generous contributions.

Crescent School

Upsetting scenes continue to be in the media from Ukraine and in particular the many tens of thousands of people who are now made refugees and have moved to neighbouring countries.  

On Wednesday, 16 March we are asking families to provide non-perishable items that will be taken directly by lorry to Hungary to support the incoming refugees.

The list of required non-perishable items is below:

• Blankets/duvets
• Wet wipes/toilet rolls
• Backpacks/rucksacks
• Nappies/ baby bottles
• Flashlight/Torches
• Batteries in packets – keep separate
• Toiletries (toothpaste, soap etc) Hand sanitiser must be kept separate.
• Feminine sanitaryware
• Tents/Camping Equipment
• Disposable tableware

There must not be any of the following in this collection:

• Money, Clothes, Toys, Medicines, Aerosols or Food

Please bring your items directly to the playground on Wednesday through the car park, where they will be loaded into boxes and onto our minibuses.  Each box on the minibus will be labelled into categories so you can add individual items straight onto the bus.

If you are able to please bring your own box of donations, rather than bags, taped up and labelled please.  If your box has several items in please label as miscellaniois. 

We will gratefully receive any spare boxes and parcel tape you may have at home from Monday, please leave outside/with the front office.

We will arrange for all items collected to be taken from here to the storage facility in Rugby before the drive across the continent to Hungary.

You can of course donate money to:

Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal

Please do contribute what you can.

I would like to remind parents that Crescent School, along with the other schools of the Princethorpe Foundation, aims to be a nut-free zone. Whilst we cannot guarantee that children won’t come into contact with nuts or products with nut traces whilst at school we endeavour to reduce this risk as far as we can.

The aim of this strategy is to reduce the risk to those children and adults who may suffer an anaphylactic reaction if exposed to nuts to which they are sensitive. The school aims to protect children who have allergies to nuts yet also help them, as they grow up, to take responsibility as to what foods they can eat and to be aware of where they may be put at risk.

Our 'Nut-Free Zone' means that the following items should not be brought into school:

• Packs of nuts
• Peanut butter/Nutella sandwiches(we have had a small number of these brought in recently)
• Fruit and cereal bars that contain nuts
• Chocolate bars or sweets that contain nuts
• Sesame seed rolls (children allergic to nuts may also have a severe reaction to sesame)
• Cakes made with nuts and marzipan

No nuts are used in any of the food prepared on site at our school.  Our suppliers provide us with nut-free products. However, we cannot guarantee freedom from nut traces.

It is worth noting that there are currently children in school with a known nut allergy.  Exposure to nuts for these children could result in serious consequences. I know that you, like me, would do anything reasonably possible to prevent this from happening.

We ask all parents to support us in this policy by providing nut-free mid-morning snacks and not using nuts in cakes provided for bake sales or fund-raising events.

As part of British Science Week, pupils (Years 1 to 6) will have the opportunity to design and create a poster around the theme of 'Growth'. It will be linked to their current science topic and posters that show creativity, informative content and clear communication will be selected and entered into the British Science Association Poster Competition 2022. 

British Science Week

Matthew in Year 3 entertained us this morning in assembly playing a marching piece on his recorder. It was a calm and well-paced performance that was enjoyed by all.

Summer uniform is to be worn after the Easter break.  Below you can find the requirements:

Girls 

• Grey blazer 
• Green and white striped dress
• Green school cardigan
• White knee-high socks
• Green school sun hat/cap

Boys 

• Grey blazer 
• White short-sleeved shirt with collar and tie
• Green school pullover
• Grey short trousers or long grey trousers
• Grey knee length socks
• Green school sun hat/cap

Please order Summer Dresses and sun hats via the uniform form below by Friday 18 March 2022:

Order Form

Crescent School

Our new Scholastic Book Club is up and running! 

Go to https://schools.scholastic.co.uk/the-crescent/digital-book-club to browse the latest books and order online.

For every £1 you spend on this month’s Book Club, our school will earn 20p in Scholastic Rewards.

Please place your order online by Friday 25 March 2022.

Mrs Webb
Assistant Head