Half Term - Thanks & Celebrations

A whopping great thank you to everyone who made our Harvest Festival such a roaring success. It was a real treat to watch everyone mucking in to plant the first of our trees, strip the leaves from the willow and to fill the tyre planters with soil and herbs. You all certainly put a shift in, and for that I am very grateful.

The development of our Community Farm Project is now very much underway and I am very excited to share the next steps with you after our half term break.

Your generous donations of food and goods for our charity collection successfully filled the trailer and is currently winging its way to our chosen food banks - again thank you for your benevolence. The donations will make a difference to families in the local area facing food poverty.

Macmillan Coffee Morning

An incredible £1,197.24 was raised during our cake-fuelled coffee morning - HUGE congratulations to Miss Totterdell and Mrs Lambert-Totterdell for their organisation and presentation; to all the donators of home-baked goods; to our attendees and to the scores of Junior and Senior pupils who devoured the remaining cake stock post-event. I now need a plan to shift this extra weight off my waistline!

Mr Morris 

ISA Art Competition

We are incredibly proud to announce that several of our wonderful Cransley Junior School pupils have been awarded prizes in the ISA Art competition for the North of England! Creative talents are on display from a range of year groups thanks to the individuals’ incredible talents combined with the wonderful teaching skills of our Art & Design teacher, Mrs Chester. Well done to all of the pupils involved, we love the wide range of different skills and artistic techniques which have been recognised by the ISA as being outstanding! First place in their categories were won by Freya, Sophia, Niamh and Erica. Tabitha won second place in her category - well done girls!

Mrs Pauline

Pumpkins Aplenty

Pumpkins were at the heart of to Reception’s learning this week. During our ‘Understanding the World’ session we looked at the life cycle of a pumpkin. They were shocked to find out that a flower grows before it becomes a pumpkin. Hopefully we can start to harvest our own pumpkins in the Community Farm next year!

Reception had lots more pumpkin mole missions to complete, jumping up and down a pumpkin number line, working out 1 more and 1 less, ordering numbered pumpkins and even beginning to explore number bonds to 10.

Well done Reception! Have a big rest this holiday so you are ready for Christmas fun to start next half term!    

Mrs Gallanders

Carving Pumpkins

Reception and Year 1 joined forces to undertake a pumpkin carving competition. After being split into 3 teams we worked in our groups to scoop, design and carve the pumpkins. Each team had to ensure everyone had a turn, that we were all happy with our chosen design and that we were completing the task safely. The children worked so well together and fun was had by all! 

Miss Walsh, Mrs Hanna and Mrs Gallanders

Chasing Factors, Multiples and Prime Numbers:

As we slowly begin to lose the warm weather and sunshine, Year 6 took advantage of a pleasant (ish) afternoon to do some outdoor maths work. Using our Cransley orienteering course, we navigate around the school grounds finding pairs of numbers at different checkpoints. Then, working in teams, the children first figured out if the numbers were primes, before trying to identify any common multiples and factors they could spot. Great teamwork and great maths work were both on show.

Mr Armstrong

Sports Celebrations

This half term our Juniors have been busy representing Cransley in a range of sporting endeavours.

Etta, Thomas, Martha and Beth took part in the ISA North Swimming Gala - all were excellent representatives, but a special congratulations goes to Etta, who qualified to represent the North in the swimming finals in London - Good Luck Etta!

Our Year 5 & 6 Basketball team played in the ISA 12 team tournament at Ellesmere Port Sports Village 🏀.
The team worked brilliantly together, achieving 3rd place in their 6 team group, narrowly missing out on a semi final spot by only 1 point! They only lost one of their matches, and competed with passion against some large schools with very strong players. Well done everyone who played!

Our Year 3&4 hockey team did incredibly well to come 2nd out of 6 local primary school teams during the Deeside Ramblers hockey tournament! 🏑
Every player showed great teamwork and sportsmanship, winning most of their matches and score some amazing goals.

Elsie has Ventured Beyond in her first weightlifting competition - she overcame her nerves, took to the stage, and astounded her family with her strength, resilience and confidence!

She scored full marks on the day, and came first in her age category!

Music Maestro!

Our very own Zeke, has made the headlines for his fantastic achievements on the piano. We have shared this success before, but it’s lovely to see the local media celebrating too, so it’s well worth another mention! You can read the article here: https://www.northwichguardian.co.uk/news/24646585.cransley-school-piano-prodigy-wins-st-cecilia-ivimc/ Well done Zeke!

Please be sure to check the Cransley Chronicle Google Classroom for more successes and celebrations!

Dates for the Diary:

• 4.11.24 - School opens for Autumn 2nd half term

• 4.11.24 - Beech House Hallowe’en Bake Sale - all proceeds to The Joshua Tree - Cakes from 50p

• 5.11.24 - Year 6 Imperial War Museum Trip

• 7.11.24 - Year 3 Chester Trip

• 8.11.24 - Individual/Sibling Photographs

• 8.11.24 - Cransley Foundation Bonfire Celebration - Tickets on ParentPay

• 15.11.24 - Children In Need Sporty Sponsor-a-thon - more details soon

• 16.11.24 - Community Farm Treasure Hunt - more details soon

• 22.11.24 - Nasal Flu Vaccinations

• 4.12.24 - Year 5 Trip to Quarry Bank Mill

• 6.12.24 - School Closed for Training

Special Mentions - will return next half term.