The Flagpole

Thursday 18 November 2021 - 7.00pm to 8.00pm 

Crackley Hall and Little Crackers, Princethorpe's Junior School and Nursery in Kenilworth are holding a Nursery and Reception Open Evening on Thursday 18 November 2021 from 7.00pm to 8.00pm.

This is an opportunity to gain an insight into the Early Years at Crackley Hall and Little Crackers.  Parents will be able to visit the Nursery and Reception classes, see examples of children's work and activities and to talk to the Headmaster, Rob Duigan, and Assistant Head Early Years and Key Stage 1, Susan Glen-Roots and meet members of the Nursery and Reception Team. 

To book your place click here.

If you can't make the Open Evening but would like to look around the school, please call our Admissions Secretary, Mrs Jenny Vaughan on 01926 514410 or alternatively email admissions@crackleyhall.co.uk and come on a day to suit you.

For more information visit www.crackleyhall.co.uk.

Friday 19 November - Butterworth Hall, University Of Warwick
Doors Open 7.00pm

We are delighted to inform Prize Giving invitees that confirmation emails have been sent out today, these include ticket numbers and parking information. Tickets will be posted home next week.

This year's Prize Giving promises to be a full house, so please arrive in good time to take your seats. Doors will open at 7.00pm in time for everyone to be seated by 7.25pm.

Monday 22 November 2021 – 6.30pm to 8.00pm

As part of our VESPA strategy, Princethorpe College will be holding a virtual, interactive GCSE revision evening, on Monday 22 November between 6.30pm and 8.00pm, for the parents and pupils in Year 11.

It will be hosted by Martin Griffin and Steve Oakes who have worked with more than sixty schools to develop effective character education systems using the VESPA model. During the session, Martin and Steve will explore the key principles of having a positive and proactive learning mindset and share tools and strategies for effective coaching and intervention with parents and equip parents and pupils with practical ideas and strategies to support their children throughout their GCSE courses. We do hope that Year 11 parents and pupils will be able to join us for what promises to be a very useful and informative evening.

We look forward to you joining this event. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me at lizpyne@princethorpe.co.uk

Dr Liz Pyne
Assistant Head - Teaching and Learning

Thursday 25 November to Saturday 27 November - 7.00pm

We will warm your hearts with a little help of the heat from the Texan desert in the cold dark November nights....Princethorpe Drama Department will be presenting a wonderful creative adaptation of Louis Sachar's Holes.

The Story  

Stanley Yelnats is in the wrong place at the wrong time….. 

When a pair of sneakers fall from the sky Stanley is convicted through the juvenile courts and sent to Camp Green Lake. 

Camp Green Lake is a boys’ juvenile detention centre in Texas.

There is no lake there.  

The boys spend each day digging five-foot holes in the dried up lakebed.  

Stanley believes his bad luck is because of a curse placed on his family after his great-great-grandfather, Elya Yelnats, stole a pig from a gypsy, Madame Zeroni. 

The action transports us from New York City to Texas and Latvia of old in this wonderful creative adaptation by our Key Stage 3 cast and creative team.

Tickets are free and performances will take place on Thursday 25 November, Friday 26 November and Saturday 27 November at 7.00pm in the Clarkson theatre here at Princethorpe College. Please click on the day you require in order to book tickets on My School Portal.  

We do hope you can join us for this event.

Sunday 28 November 2021 - 2.00pm to 4.30pm

The PTA Christmas Fair will take place on Sunday 28 November - a fun, festive event for all ages including:

• Christmas shopping market – choose from a range of artisan crafts, jewellery and gift
• Christmas craft room – make a Christmas table decoration
• Refreshments – mince pies and mulled wine, hot drinks and cake
• Bottle and Chocolate Tombolas
• Many other fun stalls

You can also participate in the Christmas Raffle and tickets will be sent out after half-term.  We have some fantastic prizes:

• 1st Prize £250
• 2nd Prize Fortnum and Mason Champagne and Chocolate Hamper
• 3rd Prize £100

Plus, many more….

We would be very grateful for donations of bottles and/or chocolates in order to run the ever-popular tombolas - these can be sent in to school via the Student Hub.

Help Needed:

If you love decorating for Christmas and would like to help in the preparation for the Fair or even at the Fair itself, we’d really like to hear from you. Setting up begins after school on Friday 26 November and runs through the weekend. We greatly appreciate any help, so even if you can only spare half an hour we’d love to see you. Please email PTA@princethorpe.co.uk for more information.

We do hope that you and your family and friends are able to come along to what promises to be a wonderful festive event.

Wednesday 8 December at 7.00pm

At our meeting this month we discussed Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi. This was quite a demanding book in some ways as a result of a structure that moved constantly from present to past – but all engaged with the issues behind the book to do with addiction and its impact both on individuals and family members. The book certainly generated some sustained discussion and it was good to see that different readers took away slightly different things from it.

We have decided on something very different for our next read – a book by Caroline Williams called Move! The New Science of Body Over Mind. It is some time since we read any non-fiction and this has certainly been very well-reviewed. We will be meeting in the Library at 7.00pm, on Wednesday 8 December. All welcome. It would be great to see some new faces. Just come as a listener if you haven’t read the book. You’ll be assured of a very warm welcome.

Chris Kerrigan
Head of English

Fr Teddy O'Brien MSC, the parish priest for St Anne's, Wappenbury and the Chapel of Our Lady of the Angels, Princethorpe College warmly invites you to attend any or all of the services over the Christmas season.

Friday 24 December 2021
Family Christmas Mass         
5.00pm      Princethorpe Chapel

First Mass of Christmastide   
9.00pm      Princethorpe Chapel

Saturday 25 December 2021
Mass of Christmas Morning   

9.30am      St Anne's, Wappenbury

Sunday 26 December 2021
Boxing Day                         

8.30am      St Anne's, Wappenbury

10.30am     St Anne's, Wappenbury
 
Sunday 2 January 2022

8.30am     St Anne's, Wappenbury

10.30am     St Anne's, Wappenbury

Sunday 9 January 2022            

8.30am     St Anne's, Wappenbury

10.30am    Princethorpe Chapel

For any further information please visit the link to St Anne's website here