The Courier

Class VI went to see The Jungle Book live at Royal and Derngate Theatre, Northampton last Friday. A big thank you goes to Class VI pupil Matthew Browne who has very kindly provided a review for this week's Courier: 

"The play started with a thrill, an exuberant jump, a little scene of a little cabin song.

After that the young child left the home into the forest the songs came loud and clear from all of the singers and the clever idea of using crutches as the front two legs for the wolves.

All the music was great from the singers to the musicians playing in the background (some of them, which is amazing, also were the actors performing at the same time.)

The set could turn giving a literal 360 degree view of the set and the actors.  One thing that was so good was the originality of it with no original songs.

All of the characters were fantastic, Baloo especially who gave a jolly feel to the play which made it even better, so that is why it was such an amazing performance."

Monday 18 December - 7.00pm to 8.00pm

Please see detailed below a copy of the message which went to Classes III - VI parents regarding this year's Carol Service.  Parents and children from Reception, Classes I and II are very welcome to attend, however, please be mindful that the service may be a little late for some of our younger children.

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All are welcome to a wonderful evening of carols, reading and the Christmas story to get you in the mood for the festive season.

Our annual Carol Service will be held at Rugby Baptist Church, 7 Regents Place, Rugby CV21 2PJ from 7.00pm – 8.00pm on Monday 18 December.

All children in Classes III – VI are involved and required to attend. It would be lovely for all friends and family from the Crescent community to join us.

Children are aware that those who need to change into a costume should arrive no earlier than 6.30pm. Everyone else, including congregation, should be seated at 6.45pm for a prompt start.

All children to wear winter uniform including blazers and grey tights for girls.

There will be a retiring collection in aid of the Rugby Baptist Church and our termly charity sponsor the Guide Dog Puppy.

Kind regards


Joe Thackway
Headmaster

Wednesday 17 January - 10.00am to 3.00pm

We will be opening our doors to prospective parents for an Open Day on Wednesday 17 January from 10.00am to 3.00pm.

This is an opportunity to look around the school and to meet staff and pupils on a normal working day. All prospective families are welcome and there is no need to book, so please do spread the word amongst family and friends.

Those who cannot make the Open Day but would like to visit the school, should call our Registrar, Mrs Helen Morley, on 01788 523851 and come on a day to suit them, we welcome visitors on most days.

For more information visit www.crescentschool.co.uk.

The following children have been awarded Accelerated Reader Awards this week:

Our U10 and U11 hockey teams travelled to Bilton Grange on Wednesday 6 December.

The Under 9 boys have shown exciting skills and some fantastic improvement over the term.  They suspected that Solihull would provide a stern test and so it proved.

The 'A' team struggled to get their passing going but did show some high level individual skills.  They also tried to play at a quick pace so that they got into good habits, Matthew Thomas did this well. Marco Rodriguez Hernandez tried to get Crescent going by spreading passes but the final ball let the hosts down. 

Good defending kept Solihull at bay but they were dominating the play.  Eventually, Crescent won a short corner and taker Matthew Thomas scored after it was returned to him.  The pressure from the visitors told though, and, despite debutant goalkeeper Josh Gorbutt’s best efforts, they scored three good goals. A 3-1 loss but the potential is promising.

The 'B' team showed their improvement in skills as they played some very impressive hockey.  Connor Kennedy was low in the tackle and the hosts dominated the early stages.  Euan Nelson tried to spread the play and James Wright showed his usual energy.  Tom Ferguson scored but Solihull cancelled out the goal and it finished 1-1.

Well done to both teams.

There will be no swimming on Tuesday 19 December for Class I and II due to it being the last day of term.

Thank you so much to everyone who played a part in this year's Christmas Bazaar without it it would never be possible.

In total after all the costs are taken off we raised £1200 which is amazing but more importantly I think all the children had a fantastic time.

• £1000 towards the Guide Dog Puppy
• £305 in cake sales for Years VI and V
• £200 at the Quiz night
• £250 at the Despicable Me 3 movie night
• £275 in Christmas cards
• £114 from the Christmas party
• £1200 from the Christmas Bazaar.

In total £3,344 this term - wow!

We are already planning the events for next term and here are some dates for your diaries:

FOC Meeting Monday 15 January
We will be holding our next FoC meeting on Monday 15th January. Anyone is welcome to come and join us.

Dog Themed Movie Night - Friday 9 February
We are going to be holding a Doggie themed movie night with all proceeds being raised for the Guide Dog Puppy.  Fingers crossed if we get enough children we'll be able to purchase our puppy as we are so close now!  We will update on the film after our FoC meeting but it'll be a Universal film of a doggy kind!

Year 3 Market day - Friday 16 February
Come along and purchase cakes and sweets all in aid of Year 3.

Mother's Day - Sunday 11 March
More details will follow on this next term however we will be producing some lovely gifts with the children for Mother's Day.

Year 2 Market Day - Friday 23 March
Come along and purchase cakes and sweets all in aid of Year 2.

All that remains for us to say is have a fantastic Christmas and New Year everyone!

We hope that you like our new e-newsletter The Courier that has been introduced this term.  We intend to use this as our main channel of communication so please do get into the Friday habit of checking for news and items related to your child.

There will also be times when we need to communicate a message to you more directly and for this we will rely on email.  Please check your spam/junk folders to make sure they have not filtered there in error.

Please also let the school office know if your email address has changed.

The following after school clubs will not be running next week:

• Breakfast cereals
• Soup
• Pasta
• Rice
• Pasta sauce
• Tinned beans
• Tinned meat
• Tinned vegetables
• Tinned fruit
• Tea and Coffee
• Long life fruit juice
• Long life milk
• Biscuits
• Snacks

This half term we've been busy learning about 2D shapes.  We have practised recognising and naming them and talked about their features. We used shapes to create Super Shape pictures.

We have been learning all about ‘light and dark’ and finding out about different sources of light. We have used some Funnybones stories to inspire our learning.

• ai 
• oa
• ie
• or
• ee
• oo
• ar
• ur
• o 
• ow
• er

and the trigraphs:

• igh
• ear 
• air
• ure

• Practise writing first and last names in cursive letters.
• Visit the library. Share lots of stories encouraging the children to read words they recognise and try sounding out words they don’t know.
• Write thank you letters for Christmas presents.
• Go on a "number hunt" around the house. See if the children can say the numbers they see.

Please remember to sign your child’s reading record each evening so we know they have read.

Don’t forget to let us know if someone else is collecting your child at the end of the day.

Please make sure all uniform is named.

From next term, we will be providing parents with a fortnightly 'Reception Roundup'. It will let you know what we have been learning about, where our learning is taking us next, and suggestions for helping at home.

This will be a great way to keep you informed about what we are doing in class and will feature in this Reception Roundup section of the Courier.