The Courier

Dear Parents and Friends

The temperatures have risen gradually during the week and promise to do so again over the weekend. This might bring some storms with it apparently and we are crossing fingers fairly tightly that this won't affect tomorrow’s summer fete. The show must go on of course, and I very much hope to see many of you and your children there for some fun tomorrow afternoon. Alongside the fete we are running an event for Old Crescentians to mark the 75th anniversary of the school, which will run inside the building, with the fete itself out on the field.

With this in mind, I would remind parents that children attending tomorrow need to be fully in the care of their families and they won't be allowed in the building, other than for the use of the toilet facilities.

Many thanks to everyone for their contributions to various stalls and prize draws, which have been coming in over the last two weeks, and special thanks to the FoC committee and helpers for all of their hard work setting this up.

Earlier this week we had a real highlight of the term with the Upper School sports day taking place over at Princethorpe College. The weather was pretty chilly but the children managed to generate lots of warmth with the way they competed, as well as the way they looked after each other. It was a really great event with so much endeavour and hard work on show, coupled with genuine sportsmanship and mutual care. I know those of you who came will have been really impressed with both these aspects of the day. Well done to Blue House for their overall win but, more than that, well done to everyone for taking part in such a good spirit.

Practising for the Reception and Pre-Prep sports days is well underway, as are the rehearsals for the drama productions, which are now just around the corner. With the stage sets and costumes taking shape in the rehearsals in the hall, these look like they will be a real treat.

I hope you have a really good weekend, when it comes, and once again I look forward to seeing you tomorrow from 12pm onwards at the school fete. 

Joe Thackway
Headmaster