Chronicle 16 June 2017

Cranmore Chronicle 16 June 2017 Editor: Mrs R Spooner

In This Issue...

• The Headmaster • House News

• Middle Prep, Upper Prep and Form One Sports Day

• Golden Awards - Junior Department

• 1st XI Cricket Tour

• Marvellous Merits - Junior Department

• Form 2 Ramble

• Supermerits - Senior Department

• Music Theory Exam - Reminder

• Wintershall Visitors

• French Exchange

• Lower Prep Trip To Brooklands Museum

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Dear Parents I wish to thank the many parents and pupils who completed the survey as part of our ISI inspection. The inspection team were keen to obtain views from all sections of the Cranmore community and your input has been greatly appreciated. The findings of the inspection team are communicated to ISI Head Office and, in due course, a report will be sent to the school. You will receive a copy of the full inspection report but we do not expect this to be published before the end of term.

We are been most fortunate with good weather for the Junior Department Sports this week. Clearly the children had great fun participating in the races with parents cheering them on. It seems that this spell of good weather will continue for the CPA Picnic in the Paddock tomorrow.

Finally, I was delighted to attend the official launch of an art exhibition on Monday by our Head of Art, Miss Darnton, which is in Godalming Museum.

Please do visit it if you have an opportunity as it runs until 8th July.

Michael Connolly

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House News

Highest Merit Total in the Junior Department last week: Tylor

Highest Merit Total in the Senior Department last week: Stokes

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Junior Department Golden Awards Week ending 9th June 2017

Name

Class

Reason for award

Alexander Denham

LJ

For taking great care, drawing and painting a super helicopter. Well done, Alexander!

Jack Denyer Harriet Clarke

For his wonderful drawing and painting of an army helicopter. Well done, Jack!

LC

For doing brilliant news writing. Joshua worked really hard; writing all about is half-term holiday. Well done!

Joshua Goldsmith Joshua Taylor

LL

Edward Wilson Rocco Hughes

MC MG

MH

US

UW

Omar Sherif Gabriel Ladds

1G

Oliver Chapman

For working so well and asking questions when not sure of something.

For his enthusiasm and effort in Maths this week. Well done, Stephen.

For showing real dedication in our rehearsals for the Form One Assembly. An excellent role model!

For retelling a fable very well with excellent punctuation.

1R

Seth Hillas Stanley Gwanoya

For getting on so sensibly and excellent concentration. It does not go un-noticed. Well done, Max

For always being such a polite member of the class.

William Lyons Harry Way

For working very hard on his spellings each week. Well done, Hugo!

For writing a super story about walking through the rainforest.

Carter Sobey Stephen Harjo

For trying really hard and using his imagination when writing a story about visiting a rainforest.

For starting to use paragraphs in his writing! Well done, Ollie!

Eloise Hinds Max Odlind

For being a responsible and sensible class member.

For being so enthusiastic in our topic lessons.

Ollie Pearce Hugo Jones

For being very kind and for trying to do his best work every day.

Well done, Josh!

For having a wonderful imagination and fantastic ideas!

Charlie Cooke Oliver Barrowman

For working so hard on her reading and learning her phonics.

Fantastic, Harriet!

For sharing excellent ideas during class discussions and remembering to raise his hand to voice his opinion! Well done, Harry!

For working really hard on his spellings. Well done, Seth!

1S

For a great drawing and description of the life cycle of a plant. Well done, Stanley!

For explaining the life cycle of a plant in great detail. Well done, Oliver!

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Junior Department Marvellous Merits Week ending 9th June 2017

LJ LC LL MC MG MH US UW 1G 1R 1S

Maximus Gates Eoghan Fuller Katherine Harjo Jack Brod Rico Tarbuck George Taylor Austin Hodgett Mohammed Benotman Finlay Hunter Ben Buckle Mahmoud Azwai

Leo Man Alex Owens Daniel Di Paola Zach Grimshaw Edward Barnard Max Gordon Sam Barklam Benjamin Middleton Gabriel Ladds Joshua Illavia Daniel Downing

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Senior Department Supermerits

Agar, Thomas Aldridge-Bate, Ben Binnie, Marcus Clapp, Joshua Jamieson, Thomas Jamison, Teddie McIntyre, Max Mills-Hicks, Luke O'Neill, Jack Rogers, Sebastian Van Every, Freddie x 2 Wallage, Sebastian

Tylor Borelli Borelli Tylor Morton Stokes Bowen Stokes Bowen Morton Radford Radford

4P 4P 2JH 3F 5H 4P 2JH 2JH 5H 4P 5H 2JH

Assembly Assembly DT French Exchange HM Commendation Assembly DT Singing in Assembly HM Commendation Assembly DT, Poetry competition English

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Wintershall Visitors Two actors from Wintershall visited Cranmore last week to present to our Senior pupils. They acted out two scenes and played the parts of Judas and Bartimaeus. Our pupils were most impressed with what they saw and were drawn into the wonder of theatre.

Mr Jakubowski Head of RE

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The Lower Prep children had a wonderful time at Brooklands Museum, bringing their ‘Journeys’ topic to life. They enjoyed discovering and learning about old and new vehicles. The highlights of their day were sitting in a Formula 1 racing car and riding a Penny Farthing and climbing aboard Concorde. An exciting day was had by all!

Miss Jefford

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Middle Prep, Upper Prep and Form One Sports Day Dear Parents What a great week this has been! We had two wonderful Junior Sports Days that were quite extreme, weather wise! Every child participated and finished their races. When you think that some children were only three years old that is an amazing achievement.

I know the fathers in Bright Stars had a real treat on Thursday morning, breakfast in the stunning BS garden. All muffins were cooked by the children, there was such a super atmosphere. Happy Fathers’ Day to all of you!

Have a lovely weekend.

Kindest regards Margaret Kieran

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Middle Prep, Upper Prep and Form One Sports Day

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Middle Prep, Upper Prep and Form One Sports Day

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1st XI Cricket Tour Once exams were over, the 1st XI cricket team had a very enjoyable tour to the South-West.

The weather remained good and Cranmore won all three matches against Hampshire Collegiate, Dauntsey’s and Prior Park playing some excellent cricket in the process. Well done everyone!

Mr Down

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Form 2 Ramble 60 pupils from Form 2 covered 8 miles across the North Downs on Friday 9 June in their annual ramble. They were accompanied by eight parents and grandparents and four teaching staff: Mrs Spooner, Mrs Trumble, Mr Hinds and Mr Chapman. Although it rained heavily at times, the children’s spirits remained high and the sun shone during the last few miles of the walk. Thank you to the parents and grandparents who walked with us and well done, Form 2, for walking such a long way.

Mr Chapman

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Music Theory Exam Saturday 17th June 10am Children taking this exam should arrive in home clothes at the main doors to the school office at 9.40am.

Candidates should bring: A pencil case which contains two sharp HB pencils, a rubber and a ruler.

Although all exams papers are 1hr 30 mins in length, the children are likely to be ready to leave the exam room early and can be picked up by parents outside the office doors.

Grade 1 from 10.50am Grade 2 & 3 from 11am

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Learning French the easy way!

Last week, 8 pupils headed down to Lyon to spend the week with their exchange students at College Ombrosa.

For the first time, we had Cranmore pupils in Ombrosa, Lyons, as well as their other school in Bourget and Voglan in the Haute Savoie region of France. With superb hot and sunny weather, many of our hosts took their visitors out to the lakes as well as up into the mountains surrounding Savoie. Harvey was fortunate enough to take the cable car to the Aiguille de Midi only just below Mont Blanc.

Being immersed in the French culture and language, both at home and in school, was a challenge for all our pupils, but they rose to it and had a wonderful week and many are already planning to go again next year.

The week culminated in a wonderful party, picnic, show and fireworks in the grounds of College Ombrosa on the banks of the river Saone to celebrate the school’s 45th anniversary.

Mr Martin

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