The Courier

As part of our Coronation Celebrations our house competition for this term will be to make a crown (or head dress). There will be one winner in each House and children can proudly share their entries at a parade in school on Friday 5 May.

All entries will be awarded housepoints and there will be prizes for the winning crowns. We look forward to marking this very special celebration so have fun creating your Crescent Crowns to mark the Coronation of King Charles!

We would like to wish a happy and peaceful Eid al Fitr to all of our Crescent families who are celebrating this weekend. We talked about the Eid celebrations that will be taking place across the world following the month of Ramadan in our assembly this morning, and shared our thoughts and best wishes with all those who will be enjoying this special occasion. 

Dear Year 5 Parents

As you will no doubt be aware, the local authority 11+ exams for entry into Year 7 in 2023 are scheduled to take place in September 2023, most likely on the second weekend of September. Registration for the exam will open in May 2023.

With this in mind, we would like to invite this year’s Year 5 children in for two days of Pre-Season Brain Training Sessions on Wednesday 30 August and Thursday 31 August 2023. These will run from 9.00am until 12.45pm each day.

The children will spend each morning with their familiar Crescent teachers, including Ms Forth, Mrs Webb and Mr Adkins, getting them back into gear and ready for their exams. Each day there will be taught sessions focusing on the four strands of the 11+; verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning, Maths and English comprehension. Needless to say, these skills will also be useful for their Princethorpe exams on Saturday 11 November, as well as any other independent school exams they may be entered for.

Children will be expected to arrive in school smartly dressed with a mid-morning snack. They do not need to wear school uniform.

These sessions will be in addition to the revision packs that we send home at the end of the Summer Term. I am pleased to say that there will be no charge for attendance.

Please indicate if you would like to sign up by following this link by Friday 30 June 2023.

Brain Training

Best wishes 

We thought it would be useful to have some photos of the correct uniform for this term. 

Please note the following:

Girl's Summer Uniform

• Dress length should be on or below the knee
• White socks to be worn, not grey socks/tights or ankle socks
• Blazers and cardigans with black school shoes

Boys Summer Uniform

• Grey shorts or long grey trousers
• Grey knee high socks
• Blazers and jumpers with black school shoes

Summer PE and Games Kit

• Crescent sports polo shirt
• Black short (boys)
• Black skort or green shorts (girls)
• White short sports socks
• Sports trainers
• Tracksuit
• Crescent School sun hat/cap
• Cricket Whites can be worn

We would ask you to check:

• Uniform is labelled with the child's name not initials. We do get a lot of uniform in lost property which is not labelled so we are unable to return it. If it is not reunited with its owner it is put into the pre-loved uniform stock
• Your child is wearing their own uniform as coats/jumpers/cardigans/blazers etc sometimes get mixed up
• Hats, gloves and scarfs are optional but they need to be school provided ones if they do wear them
• Hair should be tied back