Crook Primary School
Crook Primary School
What a fantastic turn out we had today with our annual Easter Egg Competition. The hall looked fantastic this morning, filled with colour and oozing with creativity! It was a such a delight!
Congratulations to all the winners and well done to all who entered. It was incredibly hard to pick just three winners from each year.
Reception
1st: Finn Penfould
2nd: Albie Westgarth
3rd: Cora Goundry
Year 1
1st: Savannah Thexton
2nd: Kane Henderson-Tully (1/2M)
3rd: Harlee-Rae Nicholls
Year 2
1st: Millie Stephenson
2nd: Esmay Denham
3rd: Amelia Howarth
Year 3
1st: Jamie Gibbon
2nd: Eva Langham
3rd: Grace Whitehead
Year 4
1st: Jak Beasley
2nd: River Thompson
3rd: JJ Denham
Year 5
1st: Amelia Kirkbride
2nd: Larissa Green
3rd: Holly Symcox
Year 6
1st: Isabella Massam
2nd: Estelle Gent
3rd: Jaxon Walker
Have a wonderful Easter everyone!
The VOC met at the end of March to count the money raised from the selling of cards on 'Palentine's Day' in February. The children worked together as a team, the older ones teaching the younger ones, how to count the money efficiently and accurately.
The VOC raised a whopping £97.45 from the sale of the cards - so a huge thank you to you all for supporting the children and contributing to the VOC piggy bank.
The children started discussing ideas of what to do with the money raised. Maisie had the idea of holding a school-wide contest with the winners putting the money towards a fun experience that shared with the class.
Elsie suggested that we could donate the money to a local charity in Crook, and Jack suggested we reinvest the money, and buy popular products to sell them for a small profit.
The team were excited by the prospect of growing the money they had earned and a task was given to explore ways of doing this. Through market research, the children are hoping to find out what the pupils of Crook Primary are most interested in buying in an entrepreneurial way. Watch this space for a Crook Primary Dragon's Den or the next Crook's Apprentice!
Next month, we will come together to share everyone's finding/ideas and discuss the possibility of holding a table-top sale, where the children can sell their products.
On Friday 11th April, the VOC will be judging the annual Easter Egg competition so best of luck to all who submit entries.
The VOC have been selling 'Palentine' and 'Galentine' Day cards across the week and have worked exceptionally well as a team. Everyone had their own special role, whether they were handling the money, greeting people at the door, or writing the cards to the recipients. It was lovely to see the children working together as entrepreneurs and enjoy providing a service to the school. It has been a successful week and everyone loved the idea of sending cards to their best friends, letting each other know how special they are to one another.
Today, the VOC hand delivered the cards to all the lucky recipients and there were plenty of smiles all around!
The children raised a generous amount and we will meet next month in March to discuss how we should use the profits and what our next project will be.
Great job VOC and Happy Palentine's Day!
The VOC met today for their first planning meeting of 2025. They looked at an event calendar for the year and picked out some celebration days that they thought would provide the children of CPS with entertainment or educational value. They then looked a little closer at a February calendar to get something exciting organised. The VOC have ran Valentine's Day events in the past, but they thought that Galentine's and Palentine's Day on February 13th could provide our school with something different, where they would be able to share love amongst their closest pals and gals!
The VOC will be creating Galentine's and Palentine's Day postcards over the following weeks, which pupils in CPS will be able to purchase and edit for their friends. The VOC will then be visiting classrooms around school on Thursday 13th February delivering the cards and sharing the love for the greatest gals and pals!
Before the holidays, the VOC set Crook Primary pupils the challenge of designing and carving a spooky pumpkin. They added that pumpkins carved based on characters from their favourite stories might catch their attention too!
Well, what a response they got to that challenge! We had many, many pumpkins sent to us over the holidays and not just any old pumpkins - amazing pumpkins!
The VOC met today to judge those entries and all around the room as they inspected the different terrifying pumpkins, there were echoes of "this is too hard to judge!" - it really was so hard as the pumpkins were so well thought out and unique!
After careful deliberation, the VOC narrowed it down to 4 winners! The winners will receive a Halloween related book and pack of sweets to add to their trick or treat collections!
And the winners are...
Imogen McManus (Y5)
Jack Moore (Y6)
Agatha Micklethwaite (Y2)
Lewis Johnson (Y2)
A massive well done to everyone who entered - each entry will receive 10 points for their house team :-)
Congratulations to all of our winners this year - you all looked incredible! Thank you to everyone for dressing up and making it an extra special day in Crook Primary School. The Voice of Crook found it so hard to choose their favourite - you were all such worthy winners!
Happy half-term and enjoy celebrating Halloween!
Well done to Jaxon, Cora and Cassian from EYFS.
Well done to Hunter-James, Mason and Archie from KS1.
Well done to Jamie, Joshua and Luna from LKS2.
Well done to Isabella, Skyla and Estelle from UKS2.
Today we got our new bunch of school representatives together for the first meeting of the year. We had some plans to make for the school's Halloween celebration! What a lovely group we have this year, there were so many interesting and well-thought-out ideas and everyone was very respectful of their fellow VOC member's ideas.
We decided to turn our Halloween dress up day into more of a celebration and instead of going around the classes to judge, the VOC will be hosting a little Monster Mash - dance and game event for each phase. There they will announce the winners after watching them dance and play some musical monsters! They will also be setting a home challenge for you all, with information to be posted on Facebook soon!
A new school year calls for a fresh bunch of VOC members and now that we have settled into our new year groups, it was time to hit the ground running! Teachers thought about their previous year group and chose a couple of pupils who they thought would make valuable members of the children's leadership team. We invited all of those candidates along for a little meeting and set them a task to narrow down the list and wow, what a response we got! There were some fabulous ideas for future school events and these candidates had really thought hard about how these events would benefit their peers and our school. It was such a difficult decision, but the results are finally in!
The 2024/25 cohort for the VOC are -
Y1 - Oscar Reed
Y2 - Elsie Hamilton
Y3 - Freddie Breward and Louciena Coleman
Y4 - Grace Piper
Y5 - Ivy Hendry
Y6 - Maisie Clarey and Jack Moore
Congratulations to all of the finalists and see you soon to do some Halloween planning!
There is nothing better than spending time with friends, reading a good book and enjoying a delicious picnic! Put the three together and what do you get - a Booknic! This is exactly what we did at Crook Primary School last Friday afternoon and it was a perfect end to our week.
Crook Primary families and staff spilled out onto the school field for our first ever Summer Booknic. Armed with books and delicious picnic lunches, everyone came together on picnic mats and blankets to enjoy the afternoon together. Despite the blustery conditions, everyone had a wonderful time and it was so special to see so many of our families come together for a reading extravaganza!
It was also lovely to see older siblings reading to their younger family members and choosing new and different stories from our pre-loved book stations.
We all had a wonderful time and hope to do it again next year. Thank you so much for joining us - you made it a success!
As the end of May fell during the holidays, today was our first opportunity to get together for a board meeting and we had lots to discuss!
We began by looking at the entries from our half term 'BEE a friend to the bees' challenge. We had posters, people doing gardening and even one little girl using her own pocket money to buy bee friendly flowers, so it was a tough choice! We chose one winner from early years, one from KS1 and one from KS2. We then discussed what a suitable, bee related prize would be for our winners.
The winners and their prizes will be revealed in the POTM assembly at the end of the month.
Following this, we discussed the VOC's Summer Booknic. We want it to be as fun as possible for children and adults alike, so we brainstormed some ideas for challenges and activities that could make it more exciting. We came up with a quiz that can be completed by children and adults together whilst they enjoy their picnic. We decided to do our own take on an egg and spoon race - a head and book race where parents will get the opportunity to race and finally a 'villain' themed coconut shy!
We really hope that we get some good weather and we will see you there!
