The Courier

This school year, Head of Pastoral and Pre Prep, Alan Webb, has worked with the School Council, pupils and staff to refresh the School Promise. The Good Friends, Good Learners and Good Citizens School Promise was unveiled in 2018 and its core values and beliefs are a set of qualities and commitments that remain central to the school’s approach today.

Crescent’s School Promise seeks to foster and develop the qualities of kindness, tolerance and mutual respect in a safe and caring environment where staff and families work together to deliver an inspiring, challenging and varied curriculum. It expresses the school community’s shared values and challenges all our pupils to be Good Friends, Good Learners and Good Citizens. 

In the Michaelmas Term pupils took part in learning activities to engage with the 12 commitments and on the basis of those activities the School Promise has been reviewed. The updated promise has been presented to the school community in assembly with supporting materials shared in the classrooms across school. The School Promise card has also been updated and last week to help bring the commitments to life we unveiled exciting new graphics on the walls around the school. They are a great visual reminder and are sure to enhance the engagement with and ownership of our School Promise.

We had a delivery of lovely new books that address a range of issues around diversity and inclusion. They are currently on display in the breakout space, where lots of children have been stopping by to have a look.

Mr Thackway talked about some of these issues in his assembly this week with the help of some excellent Year 6 readers. The assembly focused on a book called We All Belong, which finishes with the very pertinent lines ‘In our school we all belong, together we all get along. Not one of us is out of place, we all belong to the human race’. A really important message underlined in our School Promise – We respect everyone and we celebrate our differences.

Dear Parents

We have a broad and stimulating range of reading scheme books for all children across Pre-Prep. However, we do periodically suffer from books not being returned to school, which leaves us short.

As such, please could we ask all parents to check carefully at home and return to school any books they find at the earliest opportunity. This can, of course, be done without judgement, by simply sending any books in with your child or leaving them in the unifom box outside the main school entrance.

With thanks as always.

Our new Scholastic Book Club is up and running! To browse the latest books and order online, please click on the link below. For every £1 you spend on this month’s Book Club, our school will earn 20p in Scholastic Rewards.

Book Club

Please place your order online by 1 February 2023.