The Chronicle: 15 November 2019

Victory at the Annual Henkes Shield 15th November 2019 Dear Parents, This is another bumper edition with lots of news on sport. In particular, I was delighted to see our footballers win the Henkes Shield last Saturday. However, I was especially pleased by the good sportsmanship demonstrated by all the teams from both schools. Later that evening, we enjoyed a truly magnificent Fireworks Display courtesy of the CPA. As ever, the glow toys proved to be very popular too.

On Monday we had a special Senior Department assembly to mark Remembrance Day. I was most grateful to our Year 8 pupils, who gave a powerful presentation to explain its history and continuing significance.

Yours sincerely, Michael Connolly

Nursery News Nursery have been looking at 2D shapes.

We went to the toy shop in our ballet lesson!

We made shortbread biscuits for our snack.

We have had fun playing with friends in the Nursery garden.

Junior News Year 3 Visit to the Winchester Science Centre Year 3 had an amazing time at the Winchester Science Centre. We were treated to an awesome show in the planetarium featuring stars, constellations, planets and galaxies.

We had great fun finding out about the states of matter in our workshop and made two types of Non-Newtonian fluid.

We also had enormous fun testing out all the other exhibits. We wished we could have stayed for longer!

Mrs Sinclair

Junior News Year 2 Science Year 2 enjoyed investigating the best material for a tea bag. They are learning to give explanations for their findings and to make it a fair test.

Year 2 Immersive Afternoon about China Year 2 had a wonderful immersive afternoon launching their topic on China. The children took part in a carousel of activities, including: using VR headsets to see different places in China; drawing Chinese dragons; creating dragon masks; and performing a Chinese dragon dance.

Senior News Remembrance Day In Monday morning’s Assembly, the school remembered those who gave their lives in the First World War and all the subsequent conflicts in the defence of freedom. Year 8 led the Service of Remembrance. Our pupils presented poignant reflections on the challenges of the time for individuals, the country and the world. Conrad C. played the Last Post beautifully during Assembly and following our minute of silence at 11 a.m.

Anti-Bullying Week Presentation As part of Anti-Bullying Week, the Senior Department received a presentation from Claire Harrison from Worth-it Positive Education. The pupils learnt about different strategies to use and the importance of staying positive.

Senior News

Awesome Book Awards

We are delighted that over 60 pupils from Years 4, 5 and 6 have signed up to take part in the Awesome Book Awards challenge. The participating pupils will read the shortlist of five books

by April, after which they will rank the books. Over 90 schools took part last year and the winning author will be announced in May. We will have a party at Cranmore for all those who have taken part. It is wonderful to see how enthusiastic the children are about completing the five books and to hear them discussing the books they are reading.

Last year, Cranmore’s most popular book was Brightstorm by Vashti Hardy, who visited our school in September. She has now been selected as one of the final three authors in the shortlist for the Blue Peter Book Awards 2020 for her second book, Wildspark!

Mrs Watkinson and Mrs Spooner

The 2020 shortlist

Sports News Sport Report Football At the end of the football season, there is always a special tournament in which all age groups play against our friends at Rokeby. On Saturday, eight teams travelled to our opposition for the annual Henkes Shield, which was first contested in 1983. In the early kick-offs, the U9B & U10B teams both won, resulting in a 2-0 lead going into the next six matches. The momentum switched throughout these matches; at one point Rokeby were leading in four of these games. Could the Cranmore teams stage a comeback? By 10.40 a.m. all the matches were complete and, thankfully, our teams showed great commitment and determination to secure the Henkes Shield, with 5.5 points to 2.5 points.

Congratulations to all the teams for their performances on the day and a big thank you to all those who travelled to support them.

The final week of the core curriculum sport also included whole year group fixtures for U13/U12 versus Danes Hill, U9 vs KCJS and U10 vs Northcote Lodge (see results on the sports portal, via the Cranmore website).

I would just like to take this opportunity to thank our Head of Football, Mr O'Neill, with the rest of the sports staff, for a very successful and fixture-packed football season.

Netball On Friday, a great afternoon of netball took place with both our U8s and U9s playing against St Teresa's and with both teams managing a win.

Hockey Saturday saw the St George's U8 hockey tournament take place where Cranmore won one game, drew three and were bronze medallists in the tournament. There was more hockey on Monday, with our U9s competing in the Danes Hill tournament in which they performed very well.

Sports Kit As the temperature drops and we experience more wintery conditions, please remind your child to bring in suitable sports clothing. This includes their Cranmore sports tracksuit and under-layer/skins tops/bottoms (purchased from the school shop). They also need their mouth guards, depending on age/sport, and water bottles for fixtures.

Mr Hodgson Please use the sports portal via the school website: https://sport.cranmore.org and save the Cranmore sports app for up-to-date information.

Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cranmoresport

Sports News St George’s U8 Hockey Tournament Our U8 girls finished as bronze medallists at the St George’s B team hockey tournament last Saturday 9th November. They didn’t lose a game, winning one and drawing three of their matches.

Mrs Attree

U9s Netball versus St Teresa's

Sports News U9s Football versus KCJS

U13s Football versus Danes Hill

Congratulations to our U8s who reached the final at the Cumnor House Tournament. Well done.

Sports News A superb performance at the Annual Henkes Shield

Music News Junior Music Assembly This week’s Junior Music Assembly was a great success. Performances included a vibrant violin trio and also a duo of beautiful singing ballet dancers. The Training Choir sang terrifically and with such confidence. Thank you to all of the parents and instrumental teachers who enable such a high quality of performances at such a young age.

Woking Music Festival The Senior Chamber Choir had a wonderful time at the Woking Music Festival on Tuesday.

Mrs Thornton is thrilled to announce they won their category with distinction. The choir sang ‘Love Divine’ and ‘O Holy Night’ superbly as a whole ensemble and they had some extremely positive feedback from the adjudicator.

Notices Christmas Events and Activities Christmas Decoration Competition!

All children are invited to enter our Christmas Decoration Competition. The theme is ‘The Nativity’. Children are invited to be as inventive as they like within this theme. The decorations should be able to hang on a Christmas tree.

There will be one prize per year group of the Lego Christmas Ideas book (pictured).

Please bring your entries to Mrs Watkinson in the Senior Library by Friday 6th December.

***Save the date!*** Friday 13th December will be Christmas Scarf Day. Your scarves can be as creative as you like, as long as they follow the Christmas theme and spread some Christmas joy.

Pupils in the Junior and Senior Department will be invited to donate £1 and raised funds will go towards Wintershall.

Miss Schembri

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