The Courier

The school took a team of 18 athletes from Years 4 and 5 to Saffron Lane Stadium in Leicester on Thursday 23 May to compete against schools from across the Midlands in the Regional ISA Athletics.

The children put in fantastic performances and were proud to achieve personal bests with five Crescent School pupils finishing in first place and qualifying for the National Championships. (We are waiting to hear if we have any other qualifiers!)

Head of Games, Rachel McCollin praised the outstanding attitude adopted by the Crescent team who as always behaved impeccably despite the mixed weather conditions.

“We had an absolutely fabulous day,” commented Mrs McCollin, “I was very pleased with our results, there were many excellent individual performances. The children well and truly rose to the challenge of our ‘little school big ambitions’ motto!”

Gold Medal: 

• Maxi E - Year 5 Long Jump 
• Ava L - Year 4 Long Jump 
• Sam, Zac, Maxi, Alex - Year 5 Boys Relay

Silver Medal:

• Akaal R - Year 5 Boys 70m 
• Theo Mc, Kian, Tomisin, Thomas - Year 4 Boys Relay  

Bronze Medal:

• Alex B - Year 5 Boys 150m 
• Lilah W - Year 4 Girls Rounders Ball Throw 
• Tomisin - Year 4 Boys Long Jump 
• Roisin C - Year 5 Girls Long Jump 

Other great results:  

• Kian G - final of Year 4 Boys 60m - 5th 
• Amber M - Year 4 Girls 600m - 4th 
• Thomas - Year 4 Boys 600m - 6th 
• Zac J - Year 5 Boys Cricketball Throw - 4th 

The ISA National Track and Field Championships take place later this term on Monday 17 June, at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham.

Year 4 visited Princethorpe College on Tuesday to take part in an Eco-Explorers Workshop. Led by Princethorpe's Science and Games staff, pupils enjoyed adventurous and interactive sessions that made use of the College’s extensive Outdoor Education facilities.

Working in groups, the children rotated round three activities, pond-dipping, mini-beasts and orienteering. Using their Science skills, everyone had fun exploring the natural world, observing and identifying the creatures that live on the Princethorpe estate. The pond-dipping took place in the Outdoor Classroom situated up in Switzerland and Year 4 were particularly excited to observe the many tadpoles. While in their search for mini-beasts, pupils made use of the bug hotels up on the Mile Walk, spotting centipedes, beetles and worms galore. The orienteering had Year 4 developing their map-reading and navigational skills while running around the main Sports Fields. Mid-morning there was time for a short break and an obligatory Princethorpe cookie, which was followed by a quick introduction to beekeeping.

The session was hands on, engaging and great fun. The children loved working outside, and the topics and activities linked to their learning back in school. On the way home, Year 4 all agreed that the Eco-Explorers Workshop had been brilliant!

On Tuesday morning, Year 3 brought World War 2 vividly to life when they performed Julia Donaldson’s children’s play, Bombs and Blackberries. Parents were treated to a heartfelt and at time humorous retelling of a story of evacuees, their adventures in the countryside and the escapades of their families. The children have all worked hard to learn their lines and songs, and they delivered a fabulous performance. It was a super way to explore history; a huge well done to them all.

Our Year 1s enjoyed a Mini Brass taster session on Wednesday this week. It’s always a popular activity and the children had great fun finding out all about brass instruments and playing the hose-a-phones.

Mrs Fisher has been running Mini Brass Club for Year 2s for a few years now and it is a great introduction to future musical opportunities in the school. Many of our talented brass players first picked up their instruments in Mini Brass.

Details of how to sign up for Mini Brass will be sent home to parents.

Princethorpe College is delighted to be partnering with Team Super Sports to offer Holiday Camps to children aged 5 to 16 years for six weeks this July and August.

The initiative is part of the Foundation’s new Commercial Enterprise activity aimed at generating additional sources of income and is in response to feedback and demand from parents.

The Summer Holiday Camps will run from 8.00am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday from 15 July to 23 August and are open to all. They will offer a wide variety of sporting activities, taking advantage of the College’s extensive grounds and sporting facilities. Youngsters aged 7 to 16 can take their pick of rugby, cricket, football, gymnastics, netball, hockey and tennis and create their very own sports camp. In addition to sports, dance and games there will also be optional arts and crafts activities for younger children aged 5 to 7.

Comments, Gemma Cullinane, Princethorpe Commercial Enterprise Manager, “Team Super Sports are an experienced provider of sport and multi-activity holiday camps with a fantastic reputation for top-level coaching for children of all abilities. We are very excited to be joining forces with them for the first of many holiday camps to come.

Dan Super, Founder of Team Super Sports, added, “Princethorpe’s beautiful campus is the perfect setting for a holiday camp. We are expecting it to be a very popular choice for many families in the local area.”

For more information and to book your child’s place simply visit the Team Super Sports website here. The camps are priced at £37 a day. Bookings before the early bird deadline of Sunday 9 June attract an extra 10% discount and there are further discounts available for siblings and four and five-day bookings. Childcare vouchers are also accepted.

Team Super Sports will be on hand at the College’s Open Evening on Wednesday 5 June and at Induction Day on Wednesday 26 June to answer any questions families may have or you can contact them at info@teamsupersports.co.uk or call 01675 448494.

Crackley Hall’s Holiday Club will continue to run as normal.