Excellent All Round
congratulations to the headmaster, all the staff and the pupils for an excellent Ofsted report.
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/ofsted-raves-gloucester-school-thats-9224259
congratulations to the headmaster, all the staff and the pupils for an excellent Ofsted report.
https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/ofsted-raves-gloucester-school-thats-9224259
To reserve your seat for the Crypt School Christmas Carol Service please email:
Louise Price lprice@crypt.gloucs.sch.uk
by 7 December
On Saturday 19th November a group of pupils, parents, staff and Old Cryptians met to plant the 30 trees we received as part of the The Queen’s Green Canopy
The day before, the school ground staff had marked out two rows 5 metres apart and 5 metres between planned plantings.
We quickly organised into planting teams; one to place the cane, one to split the soil and one to plant the sapling – a production line!
We were sent 15 silver birch, 8 mountain ash (rowan) and 7 wild cherry. We planted the rowan and cherry nearest the drive as they will be shorter and provide plenty of colour through the year. The row at the back being all silver birch which will provide plenty of height and grow quite quickly.
The trees should grow with little or no maintenance, but we’ll keep an eye on them and remove any competing weeds in the first year and to make sure they remain as growing trees rather than potential grazing for the wildlife. If anyone would like a biology and geography project, it would be good to plot each tree (what3words perhaps?) and monitor and record its height through the years. Perhaps we could even have a sponsor a tree opportunity.
Very special thanks to Bob and Lesley Smith, Pankas Agarwal, Lystra Maisey and Raffie Ludlow-Maisey, Luke, Michelle, Andrew, Linda and Dave Goscombe (great family effort), Nick and Sam Perkins, Steve Knibbs and Adam Ashby for making the time to help the project.
| The Ancient Schools of Gloucester by David Evans A message from the author: ‘I have recently produced a book entitled ‘The Ancient Schools of Gloucester’. It tells the story of the development of education in Gloucester from its monastic origins around the time of the Norman Conquest through to the Industrial Revolution. As you would imagine, a substantial part of the book refers to the history of the Crypt School and the medieval city grammar school run by Llanthony Priory which preceded the Crypt. Of the 17 chapters, there are in fact 6 that either wholly or substantially relate to the Crypt’. With the support of Crypt School, David will be presenting a copy to the school at some point in November. Hardback, with 267 pages and 100 photographs, the book is on sale on Amazon, at Discover DeCrypt, at the Cathedral and at the Heritage Hub for £25. David is able to offer a discounted price of £22 for direct sales, please email David at: ancientschools@gmail.com which includes free delivery to any address within Gloucester City. |
Crypt careers lead Chris Germaine is looking for some OCC input. He writes…
As the new academic year is about to start, I am looking for Old Cryptians who are interested in sharing their career journey since leaving The Crypt? A great opportunity to reminisce about your time at school and staying part of the 1539 Foundation.
I would love to hear from you to create a series of podcasts and video chats to share and inspire with current students, as well as share amongst the OCC network. I would love it for you to get involved.
Send your details to webmaster@oldcryptians and I’ll forward to Chris.
This year’s Cryptian is available on line at https://issuu.com/thecryptschool/docs/old_cryptian_2022/100 – lots of school information and plenty of articles from former Cryptians.
The school welcomed #OldCryptians Richard Briggs and Richard Browning into school on the 29th June for the annual award of the OC bursaries to ten students. Well done to them all and our thanks to the generosity of the OC Club.
Once again we’re calling on members to put pen to paper to provide an article for The Cryptian. The publication only survives on people taking part to provide content so if you feel you would like to contribute then please do contact me. It would be great to get some fresh and original articles for the next publication.
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