The Courier

Crescent School is delighted to confirm our Head Boy and Head Girl for the 2022/23 school year. Our congratulations go to Charlie and Esme who have been selected to take on the roles.

The positions of Head Boy and Head Girl are extremely important ones as they are the most senior pupil roles in the school. Charlie and Esme will be the leaders of our pupil community and will be an important link between the children and staff.

Further responsibilities including the House and Team Captains will be announced in due course as will the Monitors for Library, Orchestra and Choir.

All of our Year 6 pupils play an ambassadorial role within the school. Working in three house teams, they undertake a wide range of duties around the school and represent the school superbly at public events such as Open Days. Most importantly they act as role models for the wider school community, particularly for the youngest children in our Reception class.

Headmaster, Joe Thackway, said, “It was a difficult decision to make from the many excellent applications. I offer my congratulations to Charlie and Esme and I look forward to working with them next school year.”

Crescent School is delighted announce our new pupil ‘Wellbeing Champions’. They are Eve, Uma, Isabella, Barnaby, Maisie, Sam, Charlie and Esme.

Our champions have volunteered to take on responsibility for supporting the mental health and wellbeing of their friends and were appointed by a class vote. They will take on their new roles from September.

The Wellbeing Champions will promote mindfulness throughout the school and encourage their friends to maintain a growth mindset. They will help raise awareness of our mental health needs and be happy to lend a helping hand wherever it is needed.

Crescent School works hard to be a mentally healthy school both by promoting positive mental health and addressing mental ill health. By introducing Wellbeing Champions, we will be putting peer-to-peer support at the heart of the school’s approach. Such pupil advocates will help us address the needs they identify in an effective way throughout the school.

We know our Wellbeing Champions will spread joy, lift peoples’ spirits and be there for anyone in their time of need.

Well done to them all for volunteering to take on this important role.

Crescent School's KS2 Summer Concert took place on Monday 13 June.  It was well attended with the school hall packed with parents and family members eager to enjoy the end of term celebration of fine music and song.

As always, the school orchestra opened the concert performing the theme from ‘Coronation Street’ confidently. Then came the first of many solos with Dorrit performing ‘Singing in the Rain’ beautifully followed by Charlie carefully fingering the traditional ‘Sur Le Pont d’Avignon’ on his guitar.

Brass Group were next with two lively toe-tapping pieces starting with the theme from ‘The Muppets’ and then playing 'Oom Pa Pa’, the group included many different brass instruments, quite a feat for such a small school. Evie then performed the very fast ‘Wonka’s Welcome Song’ fabulously.

Wacky Music came next with an animated, noisy arrangement of ‘Junk Junk’ performed on all manner of instruments including a dustbin! 

Zahra then skilfully played ‘Portsmouth’ from her Grade 5 exam on violin. Chloe followed on providing the audience with a moment of quiet reflection with her beautiful song ‘Fall, Leaves, Fall’.

Next in the programme was Flute Group with a super performance of ‘Bells Across The Meadows’ and they were followed by Rohan who played the catchy theme from ‘Goldfinger’.

Year 3 Recorders delighted everyone with their finger perfect rendition of ‘Smelly Cheese’.

Charlotte then completed the solos playing ‘Tenor Trombone Rag’.

The concert concluded with a rousing performance by the Choir.  Pupils sang four pieces starting with ‘Scenes From A Railway Carriage’, then ‘We Are The World’, followed by ‘Viva La Vida’ and finishing with the very timely ‘Leaver’s Song’.

After all the thank yous the children then happily performed one last piece as a finale, ‘Our Queen’ the Platinum Jubilee song.

All in all it was another outstanding afternoon of music and song. Our thanks and congratulations go to all Crescent School's accomplished performers who took to the stage in front of their proud parents, and of course to all their teachers and Director of Music, Julie Barnes who have helped them achieve so much.

It was wonderful to be able to celebrate the musical talents of our younger children on Tuesday in our Pre-Prep Summer Concert.

Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 took turns to perform for their parents and families, enthusiastically singing their songs and playing their instruments superbly. There was even an amazing set by Mini Brass our very youngest brass players, who blew their very hardest to entertain everyone.

It was so rewarding to see them all enjoying themselves so much. Well done everyone, you were incredible!

Co-curricular trips and educational visits have always been a major part of life at Crescent School for the pupils in Years 3-6. These experiences enrich their lives, enhance their learning and develop their understanding and appreciation of the world around them. It has been great for us to be able to successfully run the Year 3 and 4 residential to Whitemoor Lakes, the Year 5 trip to the Frank Chapman Centre and Year 6 trip to the Slapton Ley Field Centre in Devon. 

We would like to update you with the residentials planned for the next academic year, please take a look at the overview here.

Please also ensure that you read the information about individual trips with care when they are released, in particular in relation to consent, cancellation and insurance.

On Thursday 23 June Class 6W will be performing Macbeth with Class 5F being the choral support. Please note that Drama Club will still be running as normal. 

Class 6W will be required back in school at 6.30pm, they will come into school whilst our audience can enjoy refreshments hopefully outside on the front lawn. Any hair and make-up requirements will have been communicated by Miss Thompson.

Class 5F are asked to not arrive before 6.55pm, they are to come wearing black clothes in readiness for their choral support in the play. If you are collecting after the performance, it should be finished by 8.15pm, please collect the children from the front door.