Message from the Head of Prep
With extra-curricular clubs, music groups, workshops and sporting fixtures all in full swing, it has been lovely to feel the buzz around the school, especially with the warm weather we have been enjoying.
This week, we celebrated European Day of Languages with a variety of activities in lessons and at break times. Thank you to Year 2 for their beautiful flags.
Year 3 enjoyed an incredible Stone Age Extravaganza and Mrs Spooner shared information about the forthcoming School Council elections with pupils in Year 4 and above.
Our new House Captains in Year 6 have been proudly wearing their badges and congratulations must go to Borelli for doing the double this week: lifting both the Upper Prep and Senior House Cups.
Looking ahead to next week, we are very fortunate to be welcoming the poet Laura Mucha as part of National Poetry Day. Laura will be leading a workshop that will be broadcast from Cranmore to over 100 schools across the country.
Mr HeaverStone Age Workshops for Year 3
Cranmore and St Teresa’s were treated to a very exciting joint event last Friday. They participated in a Stone Age experience workshop at the St Teresa’s site. They met some Stone Age people and were welcomed into their yurt to learn more about how the Stone age people lived. They learnt about the three stages of the Stone Age and the differences between them. They got to touch furs and tools used by Stone Age people and were even able to eat some Stone Age food. The afternoon was spent at the St Teresa’s Forest School site where the children collected suitable firewood, made shelters, lit a fire using a flint and steel, and toasted marshmallows. It was an amazing experience and the children acquired a great deal of knowledge about the Stone Age.
Mrs Sinclair and Miss Freeman
House Captains
Congratulations to our new House Captain team who received their badges in last week’s assembly.
House Captain Vice-Captain
Borelli Landon de G Daniel C
Bowen Rafe H Sebastian W
Morton Michael P Charlie C
Radford Charlie S Nikita O
Stokes Sebastian G Leon G
Tylor Teddy L Oscar H
Borelli Marlo A Jonty H
Bowen Sam B Jack B
Morton Bruce C Mark M-L
Radford Oscar W Flynn T
Stokes Jason S Lutxo H
Tylor Adam O Carter B
House Captain Vice-CaptainMrs Hull gave an inspirational performance on the violin to our Year 3 musicians this week. We would love for more pupils to take up the violin. Please contact the Music Department if your child is interesting in having lessons.
Year 3 investigated friction on Wednesday and tested which surfaces cause the most friction or the least. They had great fun carrying out their experiments.
European Day of Languages
Year 2 loved celebrating European Day of Languages! They listened to different greetings in many European languages and made a flag from a country in Europe.
School Council Elections
Upper Prep pupils are invited to stand for election to this year’s School Council. Pupils who are interested in this role should prepare a speech to give to their class explaining the reasons why they would make a good School Council representative. (Pupils may wish to include a PowerPoint, but this is not essential). Elections will be held in Form time from next week. Good luck to all the pupils who stand for nomination.
Mrs SpoonerReception News
Reception started their week off with a fantastic Forest School session. The children collected conkers on the way over to Forest School and then made ‘incy wincy spiders’ out of them. After lots of playing the children enjoyed a warm cup of hot chocolate and a crumpet that Ellie had toasted on the open fire. It was a brilliant Forest School session and everyone had a lot of fun!
Lower Prep School Council
Our new council were very excited to meet this morning to discuss some of the ways they think we could improve things at school. They wrote down all the ideas we discussed to then feed back to their classes. Our members for this term are: Alice, Akaash, Zara, Alex, Teddy, Harriet, Wilfred and Beau.
Last week, across the trust, we celebrated Safer Internet Week. The Lower Prep School had an assembly based around games on electronic devices. As part of this assembly, the children were read a story to help reflect on their usage of devices and security surrounding avatars, usernames and passwords. Each class competed in a competition to make a poster that showed they could create an avatar, username and password that were safe and protected their identity. I am happy to announce that the following children were selected as winners for their class:
Joseph A
Alice SLT
Areton P
Brooke C
Harriet W
Patrick McG
Beau D
Jack B
Congratulations to the winners and all our entrants in the Lower Prep School.
Miss Hurl and Mrs Prothero Mrs Carpenter Mr Peach Safer Internet Week
Ms Luke, Head of Nursery
