Chronicle:28 September 2018

Cranmore Chronicle 28 September 2018 Editor: Mrs S Trumble

Form 2 developed a taste for adventure on their trip last week

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Letter from Mr Everitt Important - No Nuts Please Form 2 Trip to Grosvenor Hall Cranmore Nursery Holiday Fun / School Council Music News

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Boat Show Fireworks Night Junior Language Challenge Book Week Notices Creating Castles Swim, run, bike!

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Form 2 relaxing after their adventures!

Dear Parents It has been a very busy and exciting week at Cranmore. The Form 2 pupils enjoyed their first residential trip, we had a thrilling U7 football tournament with two Cranmore teams reaching the final stages, and Cranmore hosted the Junior Language Challenge semi-final. One particular highlight was on Wednesday when I had the opportunity to attend the first Junior Music Assembly of the academic year. I was incredibly impressed with the talented instrumental displays; the girls and boys had worked extremely hard in preparation and played with great confidence. They were a credit to our school.

The Form 5 and 6 pupils had a fascinating presentation from the CEO of Linguascope, Mr Derone, who explained how he created the company and developed an online business to instil a love of languages in young children I would like to thank all the parents and pupils for their help during Open Morning last week. Visitors to our school were extremely impressed.

Thank you Barry Everitt

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An Important Message from the Medical Room Dear Parents, May I please remind you that Cranmore School is a Nut Free Zone.

Cranmore has a number of children who are severely affected by various types of nuts. Allergic reactions can be caused by varying amounts of exposure to them, including airborne, touch and ingestion.

Due to this, the decision to make Cranmore School completely Nut Free was made.

We ask you to be vigilant with us to ensure that no nuts are brought into the school.

Every pupil is encouraged to have a good breakfast and bring a snack in each day to ensure that they have the energy they need. Pupils should bring a named water bottle and this can be refilled at various places around the school.

If you would like to provide any cakes, biscuits or doughnuts for an event or for your child’s class then please ensure they are free of all nuts and are suitable for a child with a nut allergy.

Please do not hesitate to contact the medical room if we can be of any assistance.

Kind regards, Karen Dennis, School Nurse

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Second Form Adventure After waving goodbye to school, the 2nd Form set off on their residential adventure to Grosvenor Hall in Ashford, Kent. On the way, we stopped off at Leeds Castle to visit the maze and grotto, watch the Battle of Britain interactive show, have lunch and of course, visit the playground. When we got to Grosvenor Hall, we had a guided tour round the centre and were then shown the way to our tents. The children were put into their room groups and set about making their beds and unpacking their bags.

Over the course of the three days, the children experienced zip wires, laser quests, climbing, aeroball, obstacle courses, archery and the dreaded 'Leap of Faith'.

The tents were super comfy and the children slept really well, despite the strength of the wind on the last evening!

A great time was had by all, many memories and new friendships were made and the children returned home, ready and eager to face the challenge of life in the seniors.

Mr Hinds

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The Nursery playrooms are looking beautiful at the moment. The children have been busy engaging in a variety of Autumn crafts: conker rolling in paint, making hedgehog collages with scrunched-up leaves, table-top painting in autumn colours and observational drawings of the vegetables we have grown in our vegetable patch. We even cooked ‘Nursery Garden Soup’ with courgettes, tomatoes and potatoes grown and harvested by the children.

On Monday afternoons, the children have been investigating the properties of wood and metal with Mrs Woods. The children loved to make predictions and then see what happens when metal and wooden objects are placed in water.

Our Toddler Group on Fridays (2.00 - 3.15pm) continues to be popular with visitors. Why not come along and join the fun both indoors and outdoors? You will be very welcome!

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Democracy in action at Cranmore We are holding School Council elections this week, so pupils have been making presentations to convince their classmates that they would make a good School Council representative. As you can see, they have put a great deal of thought into the process. The list of the new School Council members will be published soon!

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Music News

Learning about Recorders We had a fantastic recorder demonstration this week. Children may remember Killian Hess who won the Young Musician of the Year at Cranmore in June, playing the recorder. Mrs Boosey came in to show Form 1 all the different recorders and styles of music. They absolutely loved the demonstration and some were very inspired to take up individual recorder lessons.

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Music Assembly We had a wonderful first Junior Music Assembly of the year, this morning with our new Junior Music Teacher , Mrs Jenny Thornton.

All children played very confidently and sounded brilliant. We had a range of soloists in UP and F1: piano, violin, flute and recorder.

The children who performed were: T. Cowper, G. Taylor, G. Steen, I. Sutherland, A. Gill, A. Coletta and R. Brown.

South West Surrey Concert Band are inviting all woodwind, brass and percussion players of Grade 1 standard and above who are aged 8 or over to attend their open morning on SATURDAY 23RD SEPT 9-10.15AM at QUEEN ELEANOR’S JUNIOR SCHOOL GUILDFORD GU2 7SD. More information can be found at www.swsconcertband.co.uk

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Rowers Blown Off Course!

Our annual trip to the Southampton Boat Show was curtailed by the gale force winds in the Solent, which prevented us from going on a rib ride or joining Rockley for dinghy sailing and stand-up paddle-boarding. However, we still managed to tour the Tall Ships challenger and test the hammocks out ready for our voyage next summer. We also went over Lively Lady, the small yacht which Sir Alex Rose sailed around the world solo, as well as a 4-masted schooner. The closest we got to real sailing was the radio-controlled model yachts in a pool surrounded by giant fans! It was just as exciting as real sailing but just not as wet!

Mr B Martin

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CRANMORE FIREWORKS NIGHT 10TH NOVEMBER 2018 5PM – 7PM

Fabulous Fireworks to Music!

Locally produced Burgers and Hot Dogs!

Glow Toys for Sale!

Mulled Wine and Hot Drinks

Tickets go on sale soon!

Look for details in the Chronicle and on flyers in bookbags.

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The Junior Language Challenge 2018 This is the end of The Junior Language Challenge 2018. There were 2,500 students who entered the competition in the UK this year. Well done to the 33 Cranmore students who took part and raised ÂŁ165 for the charity Onebillion.

After an exciting few months learning Spanish, Gabriel and Alexander were selected to participate in the semi-final which took place at Cranmore. They learnt Khmer over the summer and were part of the top 150 in the country. We are very proud of you!

The next competition starts in March 2019, I wonder what the next language will be‌?

Ms Meneghin

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Alexander’s report on learning Khmer for the JLC When I first heard that I would be learning Khmer I didn't even know where it was spoken. I then found out it is the language of Cambodia.

Khmer sounded extremely challenging at first - like an alien language - but after a while my ear got more used to it and I could hear the individual words.

I then started to hear some words I already knew. You may know some of these words too because they are taken directly from French. For example, the name of countries such as Nouveau Zeelande, Danemark, Egypte, Allemagne. Also, beurre, cravate, pain, the, pomme, fraise and fromage. I read that Cambodia had been a protectorate (a sort of colony) of France so that is why French words had passed into Khmer. I began to spot patterns in some of the new words so I found them easier to learn.

What I liked about learning Khmer was the funny-sounding words like khlaakhmumtokataa which means teddy bear or kraemleapbaboomuat (lipstick). It was easy to remember some words because they are like English words ('chat' means umbrella) so they stick in your head. My favourite Khmer word I learnt is turasap (telephone). The most difficult word was suntan lotion - thnamleap sbaek kaapea komdaothnga.

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On Friday 5th October, to end our Book Week, author and playwright David Wood is coming Cranmore for a day of performance and workshops with all the pupils from Form 3 and below. His books will be available to buy from 3.30 onwards in the foyer of the auditorium.

These and other titles will be on sale at lowerthan-bookshop prices.

Pop-in-the-slot books, co-created with Richard Fowler MOLE’S BEDTIME STORY

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£5.00

FUNNY BUNNY’S MAGIC SHOW SILLY SPIDER SCARY MARY Very popular interactive picture books for young children

£5.00 £5.00 £5.00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOUSE! First counting book for very young ones.

£5.00

Rhyming Plays in the Big Cat (HarperCollins) series CINDERELLA THE PORRIDGE PINCHER – David’s version of GOLDILOCKS

£4.00 £4.00

Puffin Books play adaptations of Roald Dahl classic stories, based on David’s full-length play adaptations THE BFG: PLAYS FOR CHILDREN THE WITCHES: PLAYS FOR CHILDREN THE TWITS: PLAYS FOR CHILDREN DANNY THE CHAMPION OF THE WORLD: PLAYS FOR CHILDREN

£6.00 £6.00 £6.00 £6.00

Story Books THE GINGERBREAD MAN This is David’s original story with a familiar title, as told in his own storytelling performance version SAVE THE HUMAN A reverse roles story concerning animal rights and the future of the planet.

A PRESENT FOR FATHER CHRISTMAS An appealing novelty pop-up book.

£4.00 £4.00 £9.00

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The Great Cranmore Book Bake-Off! Bake a cake, muffin or biscuit on the theme of BOOKS!

Bring your cake to the Senior Library on Monday 1st October.

The competition will be judged the same day and cakes must be collected at the end of the school day on Monday. Please don’t forget to put your name and form on your entry!

Don’t forget to visit the Book Fair in the library corridor next week!

The Breakfast Book Club met this week to discuss ‘The Explorer’ by Katherine Rundell

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Upper Prep’s topic is Castles and the children have brought in cardboard boxes from home to use to make their own 3D models.

This presented some great sharing, helping and problem-solving opportunities for them!

They were all very excited and highly motivated for this activity. Next week we will finish them and paint them.

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Swim, Run, Bike!

2nd Formers Brennan, Mathew, Theo, Henry and Kobey took part in a triathlon recently and raised ÂŁ1200 for their chosen charity DASH.