The Courier

Last week, all of the pupils in KS2 took part in the second ever Princethorpe Foundation Typing Competition, a chance for pupils at both Crescent School and Crackley Hall to test their typing speed and skills against not just their class mates, but against all the children across the whole Foundation!

During their Computing lesson they carried out several ‘5 Minute Typing Challenges’ designed to measure just how much they were able to type in 5 minutes. This tested their typing speed in WPM (words per minute) and also their overall typing accuracy. Certificates and prizes were given out to fastest typists in each class, each year across the schools and to the overall fastest typists in the Princethorpe Foundation family. This year's winners were all from Crescent School, with the overall trophy going to Grace in 6W, who recorded a fantastic 59 wpm, 11 wpm faster than the winning score last year!

Fastest Typist in the Foundation - Year 3

• 1st - Penelope - 20 wpm
• 2nd - Zoe, Charlie - 15 wpm
• 3rd - Ria - 14 wpm

Fastest Typist in the Foundation - Year 4

• 1st - Alfie M - 28 wpm
• 2nd - Theo McB - 27 wpm
• 3rd - Isabella J - 25 wpm

Fastest Typist in the Foundation - Year 5

• 1st - Sophie K - 44 wpm
• 2nd - Matthew L - 37 wpm
• 3rd - MingYi W - 31 wpm

Fastest Typist in the Foundation - Year 6

• 1st - Grace O'C - 59 wpm
• 2nd - James M 56 wpm
• 3rd - Shayla P - 45 wpm

Fastest Typist in the Foundation - Overall

• 1st - Grace - 59 wpm
• 2nd - James - 56 wpm
• 3rd - Shayla - 45 wpm

Well done to everyone who took part, get practising now for next year's competition!

Mr Adkins
Head of Digital Learning

Our new Friends of Crescent Chair is Louisa Hosegood. Louisa was voted in unanimously by the committee at the FoC’s AGM last week. She will take over at the start of next school year.

Louisa knows the Crescent and the FoC well, she has two children in the school, with daughters currently in Year 4 and Year 2, and she has been a part of the wider FoC team for several years.

Huge thanks to the outgoing FoC Chair, Inez de Konig, and FoC Secretary, Laura O’Connell, who have worked tirelessly to support the school over the last two years. Their, and the wider FoC team, efforts, do so much to enhance the children’s experience at school.

Mr Thackway and the staff here at Cresent School very much look forward to working with Louisa and the FoC team next year.

As a follow on to their recent visit from Rugby Police, Year 6 welcomed local magistrates to school on Tuesday 25 June for a workshop on the role of a magistrate and the magistrates’ court. They explained their job and how they became magistrates and then shared how to analyse crimes and consider evidence.

After that, Year 6 held a ‘mock trial’ with pupils playing the roles of defendant, victim, witness, police officer, usher, solicitor and magistrate. The case was one of cyber bullying, a subject relatable for the pupils and their recent learning. Year 6 had to weigh up the evidence and decide if they thought the accused was guilty or not. Once they made their decision, the magistrates also had to decide a sentence.

The workshop was incredibly interesting, and pupils learned a lot about the court process. Thank you so much to the magistrates, Bob Bhabra and Sally Dunn, for taking time out to work with Year 6.

Year 6 enjoyed a sunny picnic out on the school fields with their Reception buddies on Monday, as we come towards the end of the school year. Year 6 have really enjoyed supporting the Reception class as they transitioned into school. It’s been a great way for them to give back to their school community and Reception have benefitted hugely too.

On Wednesday, we had our ‘Move up Morning’ and the children spent time in their new classrooms with their new teachers and teaching assistants. We also welcomed our new Reception children to school so they could meet their teachers and classmates for September. It was lovely to see their faces full of smiles and expectation at the start of their exciting school journey.

'Move up Morning' allows staff to answer questions, allay fears and ease the transition on to the children’s next steps and there is always much excitement for the future bubbling around school.

Those children progressing on to Princethorpe for Year 7, spent the day over there getting to know their new surroundings, while our remaining Year 6s became honorary Year 7s for the morning here at Crescent School.