Chronicle Edition 5: 7 October 2016

Cranmore Chronicle 7 October 2016 Editor: Mrs R Spooner

Lower Prep

In This Issue...

2016 - 2017

• The Headmaster

• European Day of Languages 2016

• House News

• Onatti Theatre Company - ‘Au Café’

• Golden Awards - Junior Department

• Cranmore Ski Club

• Marvellous Merits - Junior Department • Reminder - Whole School Photographs • Supermerits - Senior Department

• Chaplaincy News

• Bright Stars News

• Second Hand Shop Newsetter

• School Council Representatives 2016 - • CPA Fireworks Night - Saturday 12 November 2017 • Cranmore Heads For The Trenches

• Digital Madness - Half term courses

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Dear Parents Congratulations to those pupils who have been elected by their peers to the school council. Our youngest pupils, the Pre-Nursery, had great fun recently when they became explorers and set off on foot armed with a pair of binoculars – super photos inside.

You can read about a recent visit to the WW1 Battlefields by our senior pupils and Mr Martin is leading another group to Belgium again this weekend. We recently celebrated the European Day of Languages and this edition has a full report. Staying with this theme, the 5th and 6th Form enjoyed a drama by the Onatti Theatre Company – with audience participation – which was performed entirely in French. The ski club is in full swing again and this week’s report confirms that they have welcomed many new members. This is a wonderful way for children to learn to ski before they hit the snowy slopes.

Please read an important letter from the second-hand shop and also the information on the CPA Fireworks Party.

There is a busy programme next week with pupil photos on Monday, Junior Harvest Festival on Wednesday, Harvest Mass on Thursday and the traditional extravaganza of Action Day on Friday.

Yours sincerely Michael Connolly

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House News Borelli Do The Double!

Last week’s Junior merits winners: Borelli

Last week’s Senior merits winners: Borelli

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Junior Department Golden Awards Week beginning 26th September 2016

Name

Class

Reason for award

Alexander Denham

LJ

For working hard on learning to write his letters and numbers. Well done, Alexander!

Leo Man Zach Green

LC

For always smiling and having a positive approach to learning new things.

Well done, Elijah!

Elijah Maucksch Thomas Young

LL

Daniel Di Paola Charlie Weatherall

MC

MG

MH

US

UW

1G

Jerome Barnes

For creating an exciting and well written story based on a Monkey in the Jungle.

For showing a can-do attitude towards his Maths to understand partitioning. Well done, Michael!

1R

Louis Loest Max Barrowman

For a great week of hard work, Hayba. Well done and keep this up!

For a positive and helpful attitude around the classroom. Thank you, Dominic.

Michael Bosman Tommy Williams

For working so carefully on artwork.

For getting on so carefully and quietly with his work.

Dominic Powell Finlay Hunter

For working hard on his spellings each week. Well done, Leo! For being such an enthusiastic member of the class and for making interesting contributions to class discussions.

Sam Barklam Hayba Mahmoud

For working really hard this week in all his work. Super, Harry!

For his kind and caring attitude to all his friends. Well done, Edward.

Luke Barratt Austin Hodgett

For always working hard in lessons and finishing the task set. Keep it up, Charlie!

For being a smiley, kind member of Middle Prep C.

Edward Barnard Leo French

For such improved independence and settling into Lower Prep so well.

Super, Thomas!

For beautiful manners and his super effort in all areas. Fantastic, Daniel!

Harry Phillips Harry Charlton

For always smiling and trying his best to listen carefully in class. Well done, Leo! For neat and careful number writing and always working hard in class.

Fantastic!

For working hard and for being extremely helpful.

For lovely manners and for thinking of others.

1S

For contributing amazing ideas when we discussed the plot of our story.

For an excellent standard of work and for setting a good example to other children through his good behaviour.

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Junior Department Marvellous Merits Week beginning 26th September 2016

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

Hermione Birks Alex Owen Katherine Harjo Ollie Coleman Sofie Sherazee George Steen Oliver Langton Jamie Ellis Thomas Spencer Joshua Seeback Matthew Mullen

Juan-Cruz Leon Joshua Goldsmith Leah Wadey Emily Agar Rory Brown Isobel Spooner Carter Sobey Edward Spencer Gabriel Ladds Oliver Chalmers Ben Fortescue

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Senior Department Supermerits

Barnes, Calver Durie, Jonty x2 Harris, Jonathan Harris, William Jamieson, Thomas x2 Kang, Arjun x2 Knocker, Thomas Lepone, Gabriel Lewis, Monty MacNicol, Haris McLean, Thomas Paton, Alex Sahota, Rohan Seeback, Noah Toone, William Towers, Max Trowbridge, James Van Every, Freddie Wallage, Daniel Way, James Williams, Henry Williams, Henry

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

6H 5H 5H 5H 5H 5H 4P 2JH 2JH 4P 4C 4P 6H 4C 4C 4C 3C 5H 4C 3C 4S 4S

Music Science open morning, Drama Drama Drama Drama, Reading Challenge Open Morning Science, Drama Problem solving English English Problem solving Drama Problem solving Drama Reading Challenge Drama English Reading Drama Reading Challenge Drama English Maths

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Bright Stars News The children in Pre-Nursery enjoyed listening to the story of ‘Brown Bear’ and thinking about all the colours of the animals. We then made our own binoculars and went on an autumn walk around the school. We used our binoculars to look for different colours in our environment.

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School Council Representatives 2016—2017

2DS 2H 2T

Conrad Clarke Hugo Rees Marcus Binnie (Absent) Alec Weidner Seb Durie Colton Kantor

3C 3F 3H 3J

Thomas Bull James Langton James Dolden Cameron Gill

Rafe Cook Joshua Lyons Sam Moynihan Bobby Guest

4C 4P 4S

Jake Armitage Oliver Broadbelt Luc-Marcus Bird

Liam Boyle (Absent) James Burton Henry Williams

5H 5MF 5M

Jonty Durie Louis Fidler Oliver Stiles

6H 6M 6D

Jonny Jamison Giorgio Bora Henry Boyle

Rhys Love Felix Wood George Williams Ollie Verny White Max Wiesener (Absent) Joshua Shaw

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Cranmore heads for the trenches Nine 6th formers headed for the World War I battlefields to gain some insight into events some 100 years ago.

The visit started in Ypres where we were moved by the Last Post ceremony and wreath laying at the Menim Gate. The following morning, we headed down to Vimy Ridge to visit the Canadian trenches and tunnels before heading to the French National Cemetery, where the memorial to over half a million soldiers has just been opened.

Our final day was spent visiting Tyne Cot, the largest Commonwealth cemetery, and the nearby Langemark German cemetery where we learnt about the battles that raged in that area of Belgium. We also visited Sanctuary Wood where the trenches and tunnels have been preserved as they would have been during the war.

The enormity of those battles really hit home and caused all our pupils to reflect on events. It was not all serious though. We enjoyed playing football on the Dunkirk beaches and the chocolate fountain at Le Crocodile restaurant was a big hit!

Mr Martin

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European Day of Languages 2016 On Monday 26 September, the Senior Department celebrated European Day of Languages.

The day commenced with an assembly presented by 4S. In the assembly, we learnt about what the day involves, why it is celebrated and how language has evolved. We were taught about Neologisms and their place in society, how influential the languages of Klingon and Esperanto are and we even heard the Our Father prayer, spoken in 10 different languages.

At lunchtime, we were treated to a variety of European foods from Ukranian Borscht (soup) to Italian meatballs in tomato sauce and it is safe to say, that we all enjoyed the English apple pie with cream!

Monday 26 September 2016 European Day of Languages SOUP

MAIN

VEGETARIAN PASTA SAUCE JACKET POTATO VEGETABLES SALAD BAR

DESSERT

Ukranian Borscht Bread/Croutons/ Parmesan Cheese Spanish Chicken Potato Wedges French Ratatouille Italian Meatballs in Tomato Sauce Baked Beans Tuna Mayonnaise Sweetcorn Roast Mixed Vegetables Russian Salad Greek Salad German Cucumber Salad English Garden Salad Lettuce/Tomato/Cucumber Apple Pie with Cream

Modern Foreign Languages Department

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Onatti Theatre Company presents ‘Au Café’ Last Friday, double French was a different experience for us all as we were joined by the Onatti Theatre Company. They performed the play, Au Café, which was set in a café initially with two customers, myself and Daniel Cassidy, whilst the two main actors played a variety of roles. Later on in the play, other 5th and 6th form pupils played a part in the play which, at times, had us in stitches. The play was humourous, dramatic and all in French! I surprised myself as I understood far more than I expected and it was a very enjoyable way to practise French.

Felix Wood, 5MF

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Cranmore Ski Club Ski club has started with its usual mix of beginners and expert skiers.

The squad has managed to get three teams into the national finals this weekend and we wish them all the best at Norwich.

On Monday nights there are lots of new skiers on the nursery slope learning to snow plough and using the lift ready for the snow later in the year.

On the main slope the lessons are progressing nicely as the children learn to parallel turn and already a number have moved into the race squad.

The ski club is open to all children and siblings from Cranmore and takes place on a Monday evening at Sandown Park Ski Centre.

Mr Mellstrom

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REMINDER Whole School (including Bright Stars)

Dear Parents A reminder that Pret-a-Portrait will coming to Cranmore on Monday 10 October to take individual pupil and sibling photographs. Please can I ask that all girls have their hair tied back, if it is longer than shoulder length. Girls can also choose to wear their winter or summer uniform. For boys, please ensure they have smart haircuts, no longer than their collar and that they have their blazer with them on Monday morning.

Barry Everitt Assistant Head

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Chaplaincy News All welcome

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Thursday 13 October Harvest Mass 11am in the Auditorium

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Cranmore 2nd Hand Shop Newsletter Christmas term 2016 Dear fellow parents, For those of you new to Cranmore or those that just haven’t been to see us in the 2 nd Hand Shop…

Welcome!

We have some exciting news for all parents….

We are very pleased to say that the shop is well stocked at the moment. Come and check out our stock of winter coats, jumpers and beanies before the cold weather sets in, as only those that think ahead grab the best quality at amazing prices. Last Friday, we had a run on jumpers, so I we can’t guarantee stock for long!

Don’t forget to bring your old small sizes in with you when you come in to get the next size up, as the smaller sizes are always the most popular and sell very quickly. You will receive 2/3rds of the final selling price and selling a good amount of uniform can prove very lucrative! ‘’What do you think it’s worth?!?!’’…SALE! Those of you that have been in lately will realised we have a small shoe problem! Our shoe racks have given up and there are shoes everywhere! We are on the case…..but it got us thinking.

We currently have many donated items, both coming up to and past, their two year stint on the racks.

Together with shoes, each Friday that it doesn’t rain (?!) we will be putting a rack outside and you may take items for a simple donation to the CPA, for whatever amount you feel is appropriate. We will continue to do this until we have moved as many as possible of the items that have not sold over the past two years and we will then donate the rest to Africa.

It’s clear to us which items to put out and please be assured, if you have brought something to the shop to sell, this will not be used.

Speaking of which…..Africa Once again we have a connection with an organisation and schools in Africa. This is brilliant news!

Recently a few bags of the old non-current uniform were sent: rugby shirts, black and white shorts and white polo tops to name but a few. The shipment is only just now in the process of being taken over there and we look forward to passing on more of the details of the schools involved to you when we receive them.

The Second Hand Uniform Shop is in the hut next to the new section of the car park.

We open every Friday morning in term time and we are run and managed by a small but incredibly friendly team of fellow Cranmore mums.

All profit goes directly to the CPA and is put back into the school for the benefit of our children.

Further details about how to sell your items are available on the CPA section of the website.

Our opening times are 8-9am every Friday morning during term time.

I am always available on my mobile, or via email, to assist however necessary.

Many thanks to you all for your support from Lorraine and all the team.

Mobile : 07711 261386 Email : lmoynihan@btopenworld.com

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CRANMORE FIREWORKS NIGHT SATURDAY 12 NOVEMBER Don’t forget to book your entry tickets and food and drink vouchers in advance. Further copies of the order form are available in school Reception.

COMPLETED FORMS SHOULD BE RETURNED TO THE DESIGNATED ‘FIREWORKS’ BOX OUTSIDE RECEPTION BY FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER (THE START OF HALF TERM).

Entry and food prices will be higher on the night, and supplies will be limited, so do please get in early!

Beer, wine, soft drinks, sweets and glow-toys will be available to purchase on the night until the start of the display.

For any queries, please email cpafireworks@gmail.com Gates Open 5pm, Fireworks 6pm, Event closes 7pm

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