Chronicle: 18 January 2019

Cranmore Chronicle 18 January 2019 Editor: Mrs S Connolly

Form One testing their balance in the Forest School high rope challenge

Dear Parents I am very grateful to the many parents who attended our Curriculum Evening. I firmly believe that we are moving in the right direction. Indeed, Amanda Spielman, the Chief Inspector for Ofsted has stated: "But we know that focusing too narrowly on test and exam results can often leave little time or energy for hard thinking about the curriculum, and in fact can sometimes end up making a casualty of it.�

I very much enjoyed the rugby on the Henderson Fields last weekend and I am looking forward to watching our teams in action tomorrow when we contest the Murray Cup at Rokeby.

Yours sincerely

Michael Connolly

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Nursery News Getting messy exploring our theme of winter weather and polar animals.

In Science the children focused on the concept of “sink or float� learning about buoyancy and density of various objects.

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The children enjoy their first taste of French meeting their new French friends, ‘Pierre’ and ‘Camembert’.

Bonjour mes amis

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Juniors Lower Preps have started learning about Polar Regions this term and are enjoying finding out about penguins and polar bears.

Mrs Harney visited Upper Prep to give a talk about her Dad who was a glider pilot during WW2. She mentioned the distinguished flying medal he was awarded and also showed us her Mum’s original gas mask.

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Middle Preps have a French Day as a ‘Super Starter’ to their new topic.

Using virtual headsets to travel on the Eurostar to Paris where the children can look at the Paris sights

Form One collected rocks at Forest School and then sorted them according to properties

First day back after the holidays: Chatting with friends in the playground

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Upper Prep children chose to cook for their marble jar treat and made delicious mini doughnuts.

Lower Preps discover where the Polar regions are.

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Seniors Congratulations to Hugo R, whose poem was shortlisted for the final 20 from over 2,000 entries in the key stage 2 category of a national poetry competition run by WWF UK. Well done, Hugo!

What’s been happening in the art studio?

Silver work rings from our kiln

Biscuit fired plates from Forms 5 & 6

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Sports Focus Our U8 rugby teams (all eight) played against Danes Hill and Shrewsbury House in a triangular, with matches being held both here at Cranmore and away at Shrewsbury House. 24 matches took place in total which made for an exciting afternoon of rugby. As always, the sports department are thankful of the work and support from the Form One academic staff, which allow these afternoons to take place. On Saturday, five matches took place across the U10, U12 and U13 age groups against Feltonfleet with Cranmore securing fours wins from five. Monday, was the U9s turn to represent Cranmore away at Danes Hill. The year group, which formed six sides, played with lots of determination and showcased a fantastic attitude which resulted in only one loss across the six matches. Tuesday, was Rokeby School's turn to face our U11s and this was also the start of The Murray Cup, a competition held annually between the two schools. Cranmore have got off to a great start with three wins out of four, leaving another 12 matches to go across all Senior School age groups.

On Saturday our rowers are competing in the Weybridge Winter Head, the start of a busy period. Mr Martin, Mr Fish and Miss Moore have been working hard with the children to prepare them well for the upcoming events and we wish all our rowers the best of luck.

This week, the U13s play at home against Downsend (U12s are playing away), the U9 A team are competing at the Aldro festival. Whilst the B to E teams represent Cranmore in the Murray Cup, the U10 A team are at the Shrewsbury House Festival. The Murray Cup continues during the week with the U10s B to E teams and on Saturday, it's the grand finale with the U13A, U12A, U10A and U9A playing away at Rokeby School (9.30am Kick off).

The prestigious annual competitions that we have against chosen schools increases the interest and enjoyment for children, parents and staff. We know that every child will be trying their very best to endeavour that Cranmore retains the illustrious Murray Cup trophy.

Mr P Hodgson, Director of Sport

For fixtures, team sheets, results, reports and more information please use the sports portal via the Cranmore school website http://www.cranmoreprepsports.co.uk or download the very useful Cranmore sports web app.

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Rugby v Feltonfleet

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Music News

‘Cranmore Live’ with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra

14 February at 7pm Tickets for this year's fantastic Cranmore Live featuring the 23 piece National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO) are now on general sale and available at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/cranmoreschool This cutting edge big band are set to thrill us with their dazzling talents, making this a Valentine’s Night to remember. The evening will begin with our talented Cranmore musicians strutting their stuff with the band and will then be followed by a set by NYJO. Tickets include a glass of wine or soft drink. Due to NYJO’s popularity, tickets are likely to sell out quickly, so do not delay, snap them up now!

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Mrs Thornton, Head of Junior Dept. Music, will be playing with the Guildford Symphony Orchestra on Saturday 26 January at 12.30pm at St Catherine's School in Bramley. The orchestra’s annual celebration of young musical talent will include five up and coming young soloists who will be accompanied by the orchestra in movements from concertos by Dvorak (cello), Prokofiev (violin), Strauss (oboe), Schumann (piano) and Walton (viola). We hope Cranmore pupils will come and see the such talented soloists perform. Under 16s are free with each paying adult.

Tickets are available from g-s-o.org.uk or 01483-415847.