Cranmore Chronicle 4 November 2016 Editor: Mrs R Spooner
In This Issue... • The Headmaster
• Action Day 2016
• House News
• Bright Stars News
• Golden Awards - Junior Department
• Middle Prep At Forest School
• Marvellous Merits - Junior Department • Cranmore Book Fair • Supermerits - Senior Department
• Form 3 Warner Bros. Visit
• Headmaster’s Commendations
• Cranmore Live - Thursday 10 November
• Harvest Thank You
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Dear Parents Action Day was another great success and this edition contains a few photos of this superb event. We have enjoyed a busy programme this week including a few educational visits too. Of particular note, our School Council had a fantastic day at the Houses of Parliament yesterday. There have been several sports fixtures this week with some outstanding results but we are especially looking forward to our traditional block fixture for the Henkes Shield which will be on Saturday morning. Tickets are still available for our Cranmore Live concert next Thursday. I would encourage you to join us as the standard of music is always remarkably high. Please use the link below: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/cranmoreschool Yours sincerely Michael Connolly
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House News Last week’s Junior merits winners:
Last week’s Senior merits winners:
Tylor
Borelli
Martin Cup for most improved house
Baker Cup for top house
First half of Christmas term:
First half of Christmas term:
Stokes
Borelli
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Junior Department Golden Awards Week beginning 10th October 2016
Name Ben Travers
Class
Reason for award
LJ
For always being so enthusiastic and cheerful in class. Well done, Ben!
Jamie Tarbuck Alexander Coetzee
LC
Isola Rossi Annabella Organ
LL
Angus Chapman Jack Brod
MC
MG
MH US UW
1G
1R
Harry Way Henry Steen Kamran Haq
For working hard on his handwriting this week. Keep this up, Noah. For being such a great help around the classroom. Thank you, Joe!
Gabriel Ladds Edward Agar
For trying hard to look after his belongings. For trying hard with his times tables.
Joe Evans Austin Barnes
For excellent spellings each week. Well done, Oliver! For interesting contributions to class discussions! Well done, Otis!
Max Odlind Noah Cobb
For trying really hard in class and working well on his handwriting. Keep it up, Ben! For lovely sentence work and remembering his fingers spaces.
Otis Worth Freddie Firth
For always trying his hardest in lessons. For working really hard and having a go even when something is challenging.
Sean Kantor Oliver McKay
For always working hard and making great progress in her letter writing. Well done, Isola! For super progress in reading and for being such a polite member of our class. Well done, Annabella! For super effort with his work in class. Well done, Angus!
Rocco Hughes Ben Rendle
For his super manners and for being such a kind and helpful friend. Well done, Jamie! For being caring and helpful towards his friends when they need something. Alexander is always the first to help them. Well done!
For tackling Year 4 Maths and using his knowledge of number bonds to succeed! Amazing Maths! For tackling Year 4 Maths and using his knowledge of number bonds to succeed! Amazing Maths! Well done Edward, you have worked hard and you sang beautifully in our Harvest Assembly. Good boy Harry, you are trying to obey the Golden Rules every day!
1S
A super effort when writing a recount of the Viking raid on the Island of Lindisfarne. For working hard to improve his ability to apply mental Maths strategies.
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Junior Department Marvellous Merits Week beginning 10th October 2016
LJ LC LL MC MG MH US UW 1G 1R 1S
Maximus Gates Herbie Critchlow Joshua Taylor Yash Sharma Harry Ivings Jake Mills-Hicks Lucia Meneghin Mohammed Benotman Ben Goldsmith Louis Wilkinson Jack Dorricott
Leo Man Harriet Clarke Jack Thompson Charlie Cooke Rico Tarbuck Leo French Pascale Weidner Edward Birtchnell James Ross Tommy Williams George Wiesener
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Senior Department Supermerits
Charlie Barklam Freddie Barklam Oliver Broadbelt James Dolden Rhys Love Jonathan Harris William Harris Joseph Kennedy Jack O'Neill Thomas Jamieson Mattia Santoni Josh Amor Morgan Cook Haris MacNicol Haris MacNicol Haris MacNicol Rory Proctor James Maylen George Troman Henry Boyle
Borelli Borelli Borelli Borelli Borelli Bowen Bowen Bowen Bowen Morton Morton Radford Radford Radford Radford Radford Radford Stokes Stokes Tylor
4S 3J 4P 3H 5H 5H 5H 4S 5H 5H 5H 5H 5MF 4P 4P 4P 4S 3H 4S 6D
DT Academic Reading challenge French Open Day Open Day Open Day DT Open Day Script writing Open Day Open Day Maths DT RE Prayer for 4P's prayer corner. DT Reading Challenge DT Excellent duty
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Headmaster’s Commendations October 2016
Class 2DS 2JH 2T 3C 3F 3H 3J 4C 4P 4S 5H 5M 5MF 6D 6H 6M
Attainment
Effort
Conrad Clarke Matthew Evans
Adrian Groenewald Sebastian Crehan Mills
Sebastian Durie
Lawrence Brooks
James Trowbridge
Fred Farhadpour
Thomas Dowson
Brendan Aczel
Killian Hess
Charlie Wilkinson
Georgie Paulson
Freddie Barklam
James Dicker
Thomas McLean
Haris MacNicol
Thomas Knocker
Charles Barklam
Joseph Howes
Thomas Jamieson
Jack O’Neill
George Williams
Marshall Curri
Joshua Brown
Jonte Kemp
Benjamin Milne
Oliver Pointeau
Calver Barnes
Theo Back
Oliver Gray
Flynn Duggan
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Dear Parents Just the day before the half term break we celebrated our Harvest Mass. It was a real celebration and thanksgiving for the Harvest. We welcomed Father John to celebrate Mass for us. A number of children were directly involved with the readings and the music, making it a very special Mass to conclude our first half term of the school year. All the children in the Senior Department were asked to bring in various items for the Number 5 Homeless shelter in Guildford and the LeatherHEAD Start hostel. The response was incredible and we had a wonderful display of food, cleaning and toiletry items which have now been distributed to the two shelters by our helpful team of parents, to whom we are extremely grateful. Thank you all for your continued generosity in supporting these two local organisations. We recently welcomed a speaker from the Leatherhead shelter. She told us just how grateful they are to receive your generous donations and that they really do make a difference to local people in our communities, who often through no fault of their own find themselves in desperate need. Thanks also to Mr Jakubowski for his tireless work in preparing our Liturgical celebrations. Best wishes, Susan Walker Deputy Head
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Bright Stars News Bright Stars have been thinking about Harvest and we made some lovely paintings using different fruit and vegetables. We brought lots of lovely food, soaps and flowers in to give to the elderly people who live nearby. We read the story of ‘The Enormous Turnip’ and acted it out together. We all pretended to try and pull the huge turnip out of the ground!
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Middle Prep have enjoyed cooking in the mud kitchen at Forest School.
Scarecrow fun!
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Action Day 2016 From magicians to musicians and actors to comedians, this year’s Action Day had it all. It really was a fun-filled day for all involved and it was wonderful to admire just how hard the pupils had worked to perfect their act. Now we begin the process of collecting the funds raised through sponsorship and I would be grateful if these monies could be handed in to Form teachers by Monday 7th November. One of Mr Walker’s delicious chocolate cakes awaits the class who raise the most. Mr Harris Director of Music
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Action Day 2016
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Cranmore Book Fair
A very big THANK YOU to all the pupils and parents who supported the Book Fair in October. The Senior Librarians were on hand to help children to find suitable books and we were kept very busy throughout the week. The total spent was an amazing £2,515.64, which leaves us with £1,449 commission to spend on books for the school. The Junior classes have already added to their classroom collections and we will be able to choose many more books for the classrooms and libraries. It’s a double winner as it leads to great excitement about reading throughout the school – so THANK YOU to all!
Mrs Trumble
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Form 3 Warner Bros. Studio Visit Last half term, Form 3 enjoyed a visit to 'The Making of Harry Potter' at Warner Bros Studios. The visit started with a workshop where they had to use their imagination to make up a story line using actual props from the films. This was followed by a tour of the studios where we saw some of the sets and learnt the techniques used to create some of the special effects. We thought the triple decker bus would be a fun way to get to school! Mr Heaver Form 3 Co-ordinator
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Cranmore Live Members of Southern Pro Musica will perform here at Cranmore on Thursday 10 November @7pm. This exciting concert will feature Sophie Langdon (Professor of Violin, Royal Academy of Music, London) playing amongst other orchestral classics, ‘The Four Seasons’ by Antonio Vivaldi. Tickets are still available for this concert via this link: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/cranmoreschool Cranmore pupils will not require a ticket, but must be accompanied by an adult. I would expect the concert to finish at 8.30pm. Mr Harris Director of Music