Dear Parents and Friends of the School

I was delighted to have the opportunity to travel over to Repton with the U10 boys for their football matches earlier in the week. Most of my career I have taught games in different formats and it was great to put the boots on and get back out there on the touchline. On the sporting theme, I should make special mention of the U10 girls football team who triumphed in the ISA Midlands tournament last Friday. They came back clutching their winning trophy with great tales of their exploits. Mr Adkins was similarly delighted with their performance, as well as their exemplary behaviour throughout the day.

During this half term it has been great to see so many trips going out of school for educational visits. This week it was Year 4’s turn, who enjoyed a fascinating visit to Rugby Museum for a Roman workshop. The children get so much out of these trips and it really brings their learning to life.

One other highlight of the week I would like to mention was the Nigeria Day celebrations on Tuesday. We had lots of parents visiting for the assembly with their children dressed in traditional clothes. We heard from the children about the history and traditions of the country. We finished by asking the children who would like to visit Nigeria if they had the chance and every single hand went up. Who knows, one day we might get the opportunity.

My trip to Newcastle University with my son for the open day last week was productive although I can't say I enjoyed the journey very much. It’s a long way to go for the day, but you learn so much by actually setting foot in the building. I know many Year 5 and 6 parents are on a similar track at the moment as they start to visit and develop their thoughts about potential secondary schools.

I hope you all enjoy a restful weekend.

Joe Thackway
Headmaster

Dear Parents

Please could we encourage you all to record the page number your child reached whenever reading at home. This will enable us to change books at the right time and not to re-read pages with children.

With many thanks as always.

Photo proofs have been sent home with the children this week. All photographs are to be ordered online at www.pics4schools.com.  

Details can be found on the proof card with your unique security code. The deadline for orders to ensure free delivery to school is Friday 20 October 2023.  Orders after ths date will incur a delivery charge.

Please do contact Mr Lloyd if you have any queries, his details are on the proof card.

Crescent School

We are purchasing our fundraising Christmas cards from Xmas4schools. Your child should bring home an order card tonight, that has the ordering details on one side and the actual space where the design must be on the other.

Please fill in details and keep to the class name as RP, 1Q, 2E, 2W, 3LS, 3SS, 4C, 5F or 6W. Also, there is a price guide as to what products you will be able to buy when the design is complete. 

The design guidelines are: 

• Do not go too near the edge as the printer will cut it off - you must be 1cm away all around
• Do use felt tip, ink, pencil crayons, gel pens - brighter the better- pale does not show up
• Do use collage if you want - but well stuck down
• Do use glitter glue if you want
• Do not use sprinkle glitter- it falls off!
• Do not use large areas of metallic finishes - it will not look shiny
• Do cover up as much of the white space as you can
• Do make any text big as the process will reduce the size of the design

The design card with details, must be returned as soon as possible. The deadline is Wednesday 18 October 2023. We cannot accept or send any late orders.

FoC will receive a donation for every product ordered, so do get designing! Please note that this is not the Crescent School Christmas card competition, but items just for yourselves.

Please click on the photos in the gallery which provide information.

Season's Greetings!

MySchoolPortal

Crescent School

Below is a link to view the Michaelmas Term Calendar.  You should have received a hard copy of this through the post in the summer holidays.

To celebrate Nigerian Independence Day, on Tuesday 3 October pupils at Crescent School took part in a special assembly. Led by pupils and parents of Nigerian heritage, the assembly introduced the school community to the diverse, vibrant and amazing culture of Nigeria.

Year 6, Timi and, Year 5, Toni shared lots of key facts about the geography, wildlife, economy and culture of Nigeria and pupils then watched a video to learn a little about the music, dance and dishes of this giant of Africa. They found out that over 500 different languages are spoken in the country but that in schools in Nigeria, pupils learn in English.

Pupils were introduced to the three main ethnic groups in Nigeria, Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo, and were impressed by the colourful and decorative traditional dress worn by each group.

It was fantastic for the children here at Crescent School to gain an insight into the culture of their classmates and we very much appreciate our Nigerian families helping us to have a better understanding of what it means to be from Nigeria.

If your child is in one of the following groups and you would like to purchase a Music Badge for them to wear on their uniform please complete the form below.

Music Badges Order Form

We are looking forward to meeting with parents from Reception, Year 1 and 2 over the next couple of weeks. You are welcome to park in the playground (from 3.45pm) for your meeting, then please make your way to the following areas:

• Years 1 and 2 - Mortimer Foyer doors at the bottom of the playground  
• Reception - Horton Centre doors from the playground

All the consultations are held in your child's form room and refreshments will be available. The meetings are with the form tutor only.  

If your child is in After School, please collect in the normal manner. 

We are looking forward to meeting with parents from Years 3, 4 and 5 over the next couple of weeks. This is your opportunity to meet with your child's form tutor about how they are settling in. All meetings are being held in form rooms apart from 3SS, who will be in room 2.

No specialist teachers will be available apart from Mrs Webb in Year 5 (for English).  

You are welcome to park in the playground for your meeting (from 3.45pm), then please come to the Main School entrance (front of school), where you will be welcomed with refreshments.

Tuesday 17 October 2023 3.00pm to 5.00pm

My understanding is that the scores from the 11+ should be arriving on or about this day. Any Year 6 parents who wish to discuss their child's 11+ results and implications are welcome to see Mr Thackway and me between 3.00pm and 5.00pm on Tuesday 17 October - please just drop in via the main school entrance. 

Even if you do not feel that you wish to have a discussion, please inform us of the position and scores of your child. The local authority does not inform us and we need the results for our records.

Monday 6 November to Friday 10 November 2023

During the week commencing Monday 6 November parents are invited to come into school from 8.15am to 8.40am to watch and support their child in Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 while they quiz on their reading books.

The quiz platform is not available at home so this is a super opportunity for parents to share the experience.

Half-term is a great time for your child to finish reading a book and that will give you an extra excuse to see your child at work.

We look forward to welcoming you.

Friday 20 October 2023

This term, we are raising money for the Children's Air Ambulance with a fundraising non-unform day and games on the gate on Friday 20 October.  

The optional theme for non-unform day is 'Superheroes and everyday heroes' (as decided by our school council) and we will also be running a 'Design your own hero' art competition over the next few weeks, with a deadline of the 18 October. Entries should be handed to Ms Clark with a £1 donation. 

Suggested donation of £1 for non-unform day and please send in 50p's for games on the gate.

Thank you.

Tuesday 7 November 2023 - 9.00am to 12.00pm

Nasal Flu vaccinations will take place in school on the above date. This is a change to the date published in the termly calendar.

A link to consent to the vaccine will be sent to parents next week.

Crescent School

Reading certificates have, this week, been awarded to:

• Arielle
• Harry
• Isabel
• Jonelle
• Olivia Rose
• Reegan

Well done to you all.

Esme in 4C has read an amazing 500,000 words this term.  

Good work.

Congratulations to all our fabulous readers, a super start to our new school year!

Top Quizzers are:

• 3LS Sophia
• 3SS Max G-H
• 4C Aria
• 5F Sophie
• 6W Sam B

Word Wizards are:

• 3LS Uma
• 3SS Alice 
• 4C Esme
• 5F Edward M
• 6W Timi

Mrs Nelson
Teaching Assistant

Results for Battle 21 - 28 September 2023: 2E, 2W, 3LS, 3SS and 4C against each other - average score per class member.

• 1st 3LS 96
• 2nd 2E 94
• 3rd 4C 61

Most valuable players in the whole competition:

• 1st Daniel 2E
• 2nd MingYi 5F
• 3rd Mithun 4C

Well done, 3LS! 🏆

Most improved speedsters in the studio are:

4C

• Mithun - Headliner!

3LS

• Walter - Garage Rocker!
• Zoe - Busker!

Battle between 1Q, 2E, 2W - 5 -12 October 2023. 

TT Rock stars will block 2x,5x,10x,11x on jamming if you are efficient at them, so you cannot pick easy ones just to score more points in the competition! 

Please note only the children should play on their account or it influences the level appropriate to them.

Stay Calm and Rock on!!

Well done to this week's Artists and Scientists of the Week:

Artists

• Charlotte (2E)
• Jed (2E)
• Jonelle (2E) 
• Isobel (2E)
• Anaya (3LS)
• Elliott (3LS)
• Feranmi (3LS
• Nellie (3LS)
• Harry (6W) 

Crescent School

• We all have the right to feel safe at all times
• We can talk with someone about anything, no matter what it is

In Maths we will begin to compare numbers, identifying the biggest and smallest in a set. We will be counting on and back from given numbers and continuing with simple addition.

In phonics we have been practising single sounds…

c   k   e   u   r   h   b   f

• Practise counting to 20 and beyond
• Practise writing numbers 0-10
• Explore ways to make 5
• Practise writing first and last names – try to use cursive letters that have been introduced
• Share new and familiar rhymes/stories
• Encourage the children to dress/undress independently and pack their own school bag

Class 1Q have been learning the vocabulary for their pencil case items in French. They have also been studying colours. Here they are labelling their pictures in French.

Children in 1Q learned a song from Jack and the Beanstalk that had clapping actions. They had to clap twice in the rests – the spaces between notes – while they were singing the chorus of the song. They managed to clap, sing and keep to the beat at all the same time!

Children in 2W work as hard in PE as they do in the classroom. They understand the benefits of getting their heart beat and breathing working harder through active warm ups and then moved on to precision aiming to score points as they aimed beanbags at hoops of differing distances. The variety of strategies used were fascinating!

In RE we learned about the Jewish Celebration of Sukkot and talked about how Jewish people build a Sukkah in their gardens and stay in it for two days as part of their celebrations.

The children were tasked with building their own Sukkah in groups following the rules of three walls and a roof made of natural materials found outside. Fabulous creativity was on show.

Anyone seen a right angle? Our maths detective skills have been put to the test this week in a hunt for right angles. We took our right angle finders and set off to track them down. Turns out they are everywhere!

We created a venn diagram to asses the properties of different shapes - identify how many corners each shape had and how many of those were right angles.

This week in Maths, we have been learning about 2D shapes and sorting them into Venn diagrams. We practiced doing this physically before completing similar tasks in our work books.

We were creative in Art this week, as we incorporated our humanities topic 'houses' into our art lesson. The children had lots of fun choosing their own materials to create their unique houses.

In writing, we have wrote our very own books based off the story Knuffle Bunny and are looking forward to sharing it with our families.

The Crescent U10 girls side made their coaches, parents and whole school extremely proud last Friday with a simply phenomenal series of performances from the whole squad to lift the ISA Midlands trophy as outright champions. Crescent got their two toughest matches of the day out of the way early, with two hard fought draws against strong Twycross and Crackley sides. From there the girls were really able to show both their class and determination, winning their other eight games in true style, all without conceding a single goal! This gave them the superb record of being unbeaten on the day, winning 8 games out of 10, drawing 2, scoring 35 goals and letting in only 1... a true champion level performance.

Special mentions really must go to the entire team, with Roisin, Amber, Sophia and Evelyn all scoring valuable goals, Ava and Isabella industrious in midfield, Seren and Esme simply unbeatable in defence, and MingYi incredible in goal.

Mr Adkins and Mrs Calder

Although eventually coming out on the wrong side of a 6-3 scoreline, Crescent played thoroughly fantastic, exciting and mature football throughout. In a truly end-to-end game, with just as many chances at either end, superb team goals from Timi, Sam B and Zac saw Crescent fight back again and again, but unfortunately they just couldn't match Repton's clinical finishing in front of goal.

Joint players of the match were Sam B and Timi for their excellent strength and battling in all over the pitch. 

After a lengthy stint running our Pre Loved Uniform the fabulous Vicky has stepped down from the role. Vicky did a phenomenal job on a truly thankless task and I'd like to thank her on behalf of FOC and the whole school for all she has done.

We are currently sorting out the future arrangements for Pre Loved Uniform but in the meantime please continue to leave unwanted uniform in the box and it will be collected. 

After a busy start to the new school year, I just wanted to say a huge thank you for all the support you have given our FOC events over the past couple of weeks. We are truly grateful for the generosity of parents and grand parents. 

Next week we will be releasing tickets for the annual parent quiz to be held on Friday 17 November (including a licensed bar run by Mr and Mrs Webb!) so please start getting your teams together. Maximum of six per team and all are welcome! 

We will also be releasing tickets to our Christmas Wreath making event on Wednesday 29 November. There will only be fifty tickets available to this so get them quick!