Crescent Gives Thanks With Harvest Festivals

Harvest Festival at Crescent School is always a special event as the children and staff gather together with the wider school family to celebrate and give thanks. Every year the school hall resonates with music, songs, prayers and readings to reflect on the bounty of the harvest, the traditions of Harvest Festival, along with the importance of community and of helping one another. 

The school relies on the generosity of parents and family members to make this traditional British event one to remember and together, thanks to a wealth of donations, a wonderful collection of tinned and packaged foods was on display. These will be taken to Rugby Foodbank and are sure to be gratefully received.

In the Upper School service, the Crescent Orchestra, Brass and Flute groups played beautifully. Parents and grandparents joined in enthusiastically with the traditional hymn We Plough The Fields And Scatter. The children delivered their readings thoughtfully, led prayers, read poems and sang traditional and modern Harvest songs. While in the Pre-Prep service, pupils shared songs and poems, their joyful enthusiasm delighting all. 

Thank you to all of the children, to the staff who helped put the service together and to the parents for their donations of goods for this worthy cause. We hope you all enjoyed this first shared service of the school year.