Thank you to everyone involved with our celebrations for the European Day of Languages. A special mention must also go to the catering team for putting on such an amazing themed lunch for us. They have clearly inspired the children because this week our Lower Prep School Council representatives were full of food-themed ideas with lots of great suggestions for dessert options for lunchtimes. Our Upper Prep School Council are due to meet next week, and I am keen to hear what they have to share.
Reception pupils enjoyed their first school trip of the year with a fun-filled day at Bocketts Farm and Year 6 pupils have been away on their residential visit to Marchants Hill activity centre. I look forward to learning more about their adventures over the coming week.
In the classroom, our young scientists have been exploring materials in Year 2 and our Science Club members have been busy in the lab preparing their Bee Hotels for this weekend’s Honey Fest in Guildford.
Well done to our U11 footballers for triumphing at the recent Feltonfleet tournament and good luck to all of those
European Day of Languages
Last week, we celebrated the European Day of Languages to encourage pupils to embrace the wider world and our diversity.
Upper Prep pupils created pizza and fruit flags. The submissions were outstanding and demonstrated true creativity. We hope these delicacies were enjoyed at home! Pupils also took part in exciting tutor time and house quizzes. On Friday, they enjoyed a delicious themed lunch provided by our fabulous caterers.
Mrs Ebdy
Budding Beekeepers!
Cranmore Science Club has returned for Autumn 2025 and we welcomed new members from Year 5. We have already enjoyed a range of chemistry activities and design challenges, but this week focused our attention on a local event: Honeyfest! The club worked together to build two Bee Hotels, to encourage these important pollinators to settle locally. The Bee Hotels will be on display at Honeyfest in Guildford this weekend. One pupil noted how rewarding it was to be engaged in building something that will be used and to support the local ecology. We would like to thank our wonderful technician Mrs Jacqueline Tolley, who has worked so hard with the Science Club this year – in June she showed us how to spin frames and filter and drain the honey from some of her hives. The honey we all took home was delicious!
More information about Honeyfest is available on this link: https://www.guildfordbeekeepers.org.uk/pagewhatson
Upper Prep Science Club runs on Mondays from 3.50-5pm in S12 and is open to Years 5 and 6.
Dr Verny White, Head of Prep School Science
Lower Prep Chamber Choir
The members of Lower Prep Chamber Choir have had a brilliant start to the school year. We have learned how to warm up our voices and our bodies, as we use our whole selves to sing!
We are currently singing Power in Me by Rebecca Lawrence and learning power-ful actions to accompany the lyrics.
Mrs Green and Ms Evans
Lower Prep School Council
Our School Council plays an important role in helping shape our school community. Each representative is responsible for gathering ideas and feedback from their classmates and sharing them at regular council meetings. Together, we discuss ways to improve our school and come up with exciting new ideas to make each day more fun and engaging. From new activities to special events, the School Council is all about making our school the best it can be!
Mrs Leclezio
Reception Trip to Bocketts Farm
Reception pupils had a fantastic time at Bocketts Farm for their first school trip. They started the day meeting the ponies. They then fed a variety of animals such as alpacas, sheep and cows, before going on an exciting tractor ride. They stroked some adorable animals such as rabbits and guinea pigs, before cheering loudly at the pig race. To end the day, we all had a play in the soft play and loved whizzing down the slides.
Reception had a fantastic day out and we can't wait for our next trip soon!
Mrs Prothero
Year 2 News
In Science this week the children in Year 2 created an inquiry question of 'Can materials be changed?' They took a range of different objects from tissues to elastic bands and twisted, bent, stretched and squashed each in turn to see if it could be changed and then could the material return to its original form. Here you can see some of the children stretching and squashing their material. Great experimenting, Year 2!
Mrs Green
Year 1 Forest School
Year 1 had a fantastic time at Forest School this week. The children loved exploring the Forest School site, searching for signs of autumn-crunchy leaves, changing colours, and hidden treasures from nature. To top off the adventure, they enjoyed a delicious treat of honey crumpets cooked over the fire. A wonderful way to embrace the season and enjoy the great outdoors!
Mrs Parker
U11s Feltonfleet Tournament Win!
Sports News
Huge congratulations to our U11A football team who won the Feltonfleet football tournament last Saturday! With the tournament consisting of 16 teams and having gone through the pool unbeaten, Cranmore faced Feltonfleet in the quarter-final, Shrewsbury House in the semi-final and beat Rokeby in the final. Well done to all involved!
Pool
vs RGS Prep: 2 - 1 vs Hall Grove: 4 - 0 vs Bromwood: 2 - 0 vs QF Feltonfleet: 6 -1 vs SF Shrewsbury House: 2 - 0 vs F Rokeby: 1 - 0
Other football matches have taken place across the Prep school against opposing teams including Kings House, Danes Hill, Milbourne Lodge and Rokeby.
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A Message from our Chaplaincy Team
This Week
A reading from St Paul’s Letter to the Corinthians
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Reflection
This week we focus on two major celebrations: the Feast Day of St Teresa of Lisieux and being a Pilgrim of Hope. St Teresa teaches us that it is through our small acts of love that we can find the risen Christ. In an increasingly complex and pressurised world, this week we had a timely reminder that God is found in the simple things. We also took pupils on a Secondary Pilgrimage to Arundel. In this Year of Jubilee, the Church invites us to travel closer to God and become pilgrims of Hope.
Prayer
Father in Heaven, may the faith you have given us in your son, Jesus Christ, our brother, and the flame of charity enkindled in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, reawaken in us the blessed hope for the coming of your Kingdom.
May your grace transform us into tireless cultivators of the seeds of the Gospel.
Amen
“May today there be peace within. May you trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be.”
St Teresa of Lisieux
Week 3
Soup
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Main Smokey Chorizo Macaroni
Cheese with Crispy Onions
Vegetarian
Sides
Additional
Traditional Baked Macaroni Cheese
Steamed New Potatoes
Broccoli
Jacket Potato & Baked Beans
Freshly Baked Bread
Salad bar
Braised Beef
Cottage Pie with Cheddar Mash
Mushroom Stroganoff
Steamed Rice
Green Beans
Pasta with Tomato & Basil Sauce
Freshly Baked Bread
Salad bar
Roast Pork With Yorkshire Pudding, Stuffing & Gravy
Autumn Vegetable Filo
Parcels with a Grainy Cous Cous
Thyme Roasted Potatoes
Roasted Root Vegetables
Jacket Potato & Baked Beans
Freshly Baked Bread
Salad bar
Chicken Katsu
Freshly Battered Fish or Jumbo
Fish Finger with Ketchup and Tartare Sauce
Gemistra Greek Stuffed Peppers
Steamed Rice
Asian Green Stir Fry
Cheese and Vegetable Empanadas
Skinny Fries
Garden Peas
Pasta with Tomato & Basil Sauce
Freshly Baked Bread
Salad bar
Chocolate Chip
Jacket Potato & Baked Beans
Freshly Baked Bread
Salad bar
Dessert
Peach Crumble and Custard
Chocolate Brownie
Victoria Sponge Cake
Items in Italic - Sourced from F Conisbee’s, our local butcher
