Chronicle: 11 July 2018

Cranmore Chronicle 11 July 2018 Editor: Mrs S Trumble

An unforgettable production of Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat

In This Issue...

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The Headmaster

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Horsley in Bloom

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Letter from Mrs Walker

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French Exchange and ESB

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School Shop

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Young Musician Final

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First Holy Communion

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Kayaks and Rackets

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‘Joseph’ performances

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Summer Reading

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Exciting Times for the Ones

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Dance Displays

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Dear Parents This final edition contains some marvellous photos of recent events. In particular, I wish to commend everyone involved with the production of Joseph, especially Mrs Hanson who masterminded this ambitious project.

We have several pupils and colleagues leaving Cranmore and we hope they will take with them many fond memories of their time with us. Naturally, I am very sorry that Mrs Walker is amongst those leavers but I shall always be very grateful for the unswerving support she has given me throughout my tenure.

I wish you and your family a most enjoyable Summer holiday and apparently, if all goes well, Football’s coming home…….

Yours sincerely Michael Connolly

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Children from Form One and Three at the First Holy Communion last week.

A Message from Mrs Walker Dear Parents, As we approach the final day of the school year I would like to thank you all for the many lovely messages I have received wishing me well in my retirement.

It has been a real privilege to be a part of our wonderful Cranmore Community for nearly 25 years and to get to know so many parents and their children.

I shall miss you all and particularly your brilliantly talented, kind children. I wish Mr Everitt and Miss Schembri every success as they take on their new roles as Deputy and Assistant Head.

Thank you again and as I have said to the children I shall be keeping up with the website and Chronicle to hear the latest News as Cranmore speeds towards its 60th Anniversary!

Wishing you all a great summer break.

Very Best Wishes, Susan Walker

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Cranmore School Shop The School Shop will close at 9.30am on Tuesday 10th July and is open by appointment only during the Summer holiday.

Parents of all new students starting in September should call our office to make an appointment, as should those of children moving from Nursery into Lower Prep.

For current children requiring top-up uniform or sports kit for September, the shop will open before the start of the new school year as follows: Tuesday 4th September – 12 noon to 4pm Wednesday 5th September – 9.30am to 4pm The shop will be busy on these days and appointments are not available – please just drop in.

For parents wishing to purchase top up uniform or sports kit and preferring to miss the last minute rush, we are happy to offer short ‘top up’ appointments during the summer holidays. To schedule a short appointment please call our office on 020 8687 1502 at your earliest convenience.

The shop will re-open on Thursday 6th September at the usual time of 8am to 9.30am. We will then also open on Friday 7th September from 8am to 9.30am – this is an additional opening time.

Normal term time opening hours will resume Monday 10th September.

Thank you and have a lovely summer!

School Shop Office 020 8687 1502 spsschoolshops@yahoo.com

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First Holy Communion Mass Ten children from Form One and two children from the Third Form received their First Holy Communion recently. We were extremely fortunate to have Father John come to celebrate the occasion with a special Mass last Thursday.

The children celebrating having taken their First Holy Communion were N Weekes, L Santoni , M Macias, T Macias, C Watkins, N Cobb, T Aczel, A McDougall, L Meneghin, O Langton, X Taylor and K Mack .

It was a lovely, intimate service and the children delivered the readings and prayers beautifully.

They were presented with a small lapel pin as a keepsake from the school and there was a special cake to mark the occasion.

Go, go, go Joseph! Congratulations to al the cast and crew for their exciting and energetic production with wonderful singing!

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Members of Form One made their last visit to Forest School last week and they also had a great experience when they went to the Senior Science lab and carried out some experiments with Mr Minikin. The children really enjoyed it and it definitely helped to ease the transition into Form 2.

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Here is a photo of the Cup for Horsley In Bloom. LP and MP took part in the garden competition with Mrs Jones at Forest School and we won!

A Message from the School Council Thank you to all pupils, staff and parents for participating in the Sponsored Rambles, organised by Mr Chapman. Almost ÂŁ1800 was raised and funds will be donated to Challengers, St Kizito, For Jimmy and Young Minds.

The School Council

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The French Exchange in Lyons On 24 June 8 of us met Mr Martin to fly to Lyon for the French exchange visit to Lycee Ombrosa in France. All our French hosts were at the airport to meet us in the traditional French way – kissing on both cheeks!

On Monday we went into school - although most of the lessons were in French all the teachers spoke English and helped us. As it was the last week of term there was not much homework so after school we enjoyed ourselves with our hosts. At the weekend our hosts took us to visit local sights and they made us very welcome. We really appreciated the chance to live with a French family, enjoy French food and learn to use French.

We hope to visit our friends in France again and invite them over here. If you get the chance to go on an exchange, take it! It’s great fun and a wonderful way to learn the language and culture of another country.

Thomas Dowson and Joshua Clapp

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Form 5 and 6 are supporting France in la Coupe du monde de Football. A bientôt pour la demi-finale....Allez les Bleus!

ESB news Congratulations to all of the 112 pupils, from Forms 2, 3 and 4, who took their ESB exams this term. The results are now in and everybody has passed with a ‘Very Good Pass’ or higher. There were many at Merit and Merit +, and a good few Distinctions.

Particular congratulations to the following pupils who achieved the highest scores in their year groups: Alexander Page – Highest Mark in ESB Junior Grade Two Adrian Groenewald – Highest Mark in ESB Junior Grade Three James Fortescue – Highest Mark in ESB Junior Medallion Mrs Hopkins

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Music News

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Cranmore Young Musician of the Year The 2018 Grand Final of the Young Musician reminded us just how talented our young musicians are here at Cranmore. Adjudicated by ABRSM examiner, Jennie-Helen Moston, the standard of performance from the five finalists was simply sensational. However, there had to be a winner and after much deliberation, Killian Hess (4F) was awarded 1st Place, The Bell Cup and title of Cranmore Young Musician of the Year. My congratulations to the other finalists: Charlie Barklam (cello), Thomas McLean (trumpet), Adrian Groenewald (voice) and Freddie Barklam (piano), who gave such accomplished performances themselves. My thanks also to the Wind Band and our two excellent young organists, Charlie Barklam and Thomas Mellstrom.

Mr Harris

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Rowers cool off in the river!

With temperatures approaching 30 degrees, it really was too hot to row, so for our last training session we put all the kayaks in the river.

Initially a water fight seemed to keep everyone cool but it was not long before someone gave the order to abandon ship and then everyone was swimming around and enjoying a fun session on the river.

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Anyone for Tennis?

On Thursday 5th July the 6th form visited Wimbledon to watch the tennis. They were fortunate to watch Novak Djokovic, Marin Cilic and Juan Martin del Potro.

Some of the group were lucky enough to meet Novak Djokovic and ask for a signature. A great day out!

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Summer Reading Challenge – Best Ever Books!

Which are your favourite books? This summer, we are inviting pupils from Form One upwards to try some of Cranmore’s 50 favourite books – or to create your own list of your special favourites!

To achieve Level 1 Award – read 2 books.

For Level 2 Award– try 4!

Reading 6 books will earn you a Level 3 Award.

And if you’re going for Level 4 Award – see if you can finish 8!

See the booklist on the next page for some suggested titles – or choose your own!

Title: Author: Date read: Mark out of 10: Title: Author: Date read: Mark out of 10: Title: Author: Date read: Mark out of 10: Title: Author: Date read: Mark out of 10:

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Title: Author: Date read: Mark out of 10: Title: Author: Date read: Mark out of 10: Title: Author: Date read: Mark out of 10: Title: Author: Date read: Mark out of 10: Your name __________________________________________________ Signature of parent __________________________________________________ Your list of your BEST EVER BOOKS

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Cranmore’s 50 Favourite Books 2018 Nursery On the way home

Jill Murphy

Silly Spider

David Wood

Going on a bear hunt

Michael Rosen

Shh!!

Sally Grindley

The Day Mum Turned into a Monster

Joanna Harrison

Lowers Peace at last

Jill Murphy

The Rainbow Fish

Marcus Pfister

The Tiger Who Came to Tea

Judith Kerr

The Smartest Giant in Town

Julia Donaldson

Barry the Fish with Fingers

Sue Hendra

Middles Dogs Don’t Do Ballet

Anna Kemp and Sara Ogilvie

The Gruffalo

Julia Donaldson

Owl Babies

Martin Waddell

Rumble in the Jungle

Giles Andreae

Ants in Your Pants

Julia Jarman

Uppers The Famous Five series

Enid Blyton

Flat Stanley

Jeff Brown

Fantastic Mr Fox

Roald Dahl

The Phantom Lollipop Man

Pamela Butchart

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Roald Dahl

Ones My brother is a Superhero

David Solomons

The Hodgeheg

Dick King-Smith

The Worst Witch

Jill Murphy

Cliffhanger

Jacqueline Wilson

The Dancing Bear

Michael Morpurgo

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Second Form Radio Boy

Christian O’Connell

Nevermoor

Jessica Townsend

Billionaire Boy

David Walliams (plus many others by this author)

The London Murder Mysteries

Cora Harrison

The Parent Agency

David Baddiel

Third Form Harry Potter series

JK Rowling

A Series of Unfortunate Events

Lemony Snicket

Cogheart

Peter Bunzl

The Christmasaurus

Tom Fletcher

Alex Rider series

Anthony Horowitz

Fourth form Warrior Cats series

Erin Hunter

Wonder

R J Palacio

Wolf Brother series

Michelle Paver

Skulduggery Pleasant series

Derek Landy

Percy Jackson series

Rick Riordan

Fifth Form Young Bond

Charlie Higson

Young Sherlock Holmes

Andrew Lane

The Hobbit

JRR Tolkien

Eragon

Christopher Paolini

Earthfall Trilogy

Mark Walden

Sixth Form I am Number 4

Pittacus Lore

Gone

Michael Grant

Sherlock Holmes stories

Arthur Conan Doyle

Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams Noughts and Crosses

Malorie Blackman

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Ballet & Boogie Dance Come and See Pupils who participate in Boogie Dance and Ballet clubs enjoyed performing the dances and skills they have learnt this term to their friends and family. There was lots of fun in the Boogie Dance performance which was based on ‘The Greatest Showman’. In the Ballet performance, the girls showed their skills and techniques beautifully and it was so impressive to see how much they have improved over the year.

A big well done to all of those pupils involved!

Miss Wilkinson

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