Headmaster's Message
Dear Parents
Welcome to this week’s newsletter.
We have enjoyed a calm and settled week of hard work here at school and there have been some lovely highlights along the way to recognise. Firstly, the parents’ consultation evenings on Monday and Tuesday this week went smoothly and it was good to have some positive feedback from parents regarding the new format. I know from experience that teachers feel very torn on these evenings, in the sense that they would happily talk for ever about the great things each child is achieving in school whilst at the same time having to try to keep to the appointment times. From a parent‘s point of view I know it can be frustrating if you need to wait but, in general, this week I think we got the balance right.
It was pleasing to welcome Kieran McCulloch over from Princethorpe College on Tuesday morning who gave us a thought-provoking assembly on the theme of ‘never giving up’. I know that Kieran is well liked by the children and his assemblies are always well received with plenty of laughter along the way.
Once more, we have enjoyed lots of sport this week with the ISA swimming gala on Tuesday, and girls’ hockey matches on Wednesday. We also had an excellent first AGM of the Friends of Crescent Association, which went well and I believe the new constitution well enable the Association to share its mission statement and vision with all parents. We genuinely appreciate everything the FOC does for the school, and of course tonight is one of the highlights of the year with the parents’ quiz. The Year 1 parents set a very high bar last year, it will be interesting to see if they can live with the pressure of having to maintain their record tonight!
I hope you all have a good weekend and we look forward to the final week of this half of Michaelmas term in excellent spirits.