Another term ended. The children all left the school with weary but smiling faces today - the last few weeks have been very hard for everyone. The staff similarly all left the building with huge smiles but all had the air of someone in need of a good rest. Teaching is a very hard profession and requires endless patience, resilience and energy - all of these tend to be running out towards the end of term! Good will to all men can be a little difficult when some of the folks involved are not very positive in the ways in which they approach you - but we have managed to get to the end of the Autumn term without too many traumas.
Tonight is the end of term staff party. I think I might run a book on who will be the first to fall asleep and the first to leave. We are holding the event in a popular local night spot so it should be an opportunity for those of us with hair to let it down a little and have a relaxing evening. No one has to get up tomorrow - well not too early anyway.
If anyone actually reads this blog I would like to wish you a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Next term will soon be upon us and all of the fun that comes in the Spring will start before we know it!!
Wednesday, 19 December 2007
Monday, 17 December 2007
End of Term
The last week of the school term and Christmas is very nearly upon us. Today we are giving the children in the Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 a "treat" lunch. Pizza for all! Tomorrow we are going to repeat the exercise with the rest of the school - chaos will no doubt ensue at some point! We are also holding Christmas parties this week which are always an experience in themselves - children dressing up in their best party clothes and eating lots of party food which is always far too much so they go home feeling full and fit to burst. It is lovely to see all of the smiling faces around school and all of the hassle is worth it when you see the positive responses the children give.
If you look at the other blog on the school website you will find a very funny link - how we all managed to learn to dance and act in such a manner I will never know. Actually I can't look at Mr Duff in quite the same way at the moment - his shimmy has me a little disconcerted.
Our parents and friends have been very generous in support of our chosen charity this year. We support the "Starfish Appeal" at Kings College Hospital as one of our pupil's Nayeem has been a patient there for the last few years. He is now beginning to regain his health and has started to attend school again - which is excellent news for a young man who has been on the receiving end of two liver transplants. Giving something back to the excellent facility that has helped Nayeem is the least we can do - we hope our donations will make a little difference to the children in hospital over the Christmas period.
If you look at the other blog on the school website you will find a very funny link - how we all managed to learn to dance and act in such a manner I will never know. Actually I can't look at Mr Duff in quite the same way at the moment - his shimmy has me a little disconcerted.
Our parents and friends have been very generous in support of our chosen charity this year. We support the "Starfish Appeal" at Kings College Hospital as one of our pupil's Nayeem has been a patient there for the last few years. He is now beginning to regain his health and has started to attend school again - which is excellent news for a young man who has been on the receiving end of two liver transplants. Giving something back to the excellent facility that has helped Nayeem is the least we can do - we hope our donations will make a little difference to the children in hospital over the Christmas period.
Thursday, 6 December 2007
Christmas Time
Christmas is really a mad time in school. The children become very excited and their ability to learn seems to diminish as the days count down!
Everyone is very busy learning new songs, practising dances, learning words and remembering when to stand and sit. The Christmas performance is nearly upon us - most of the school are performing our version of "Cinderella" and the Foundation children are recreating the nativity. The pantomime promises to be great fun and the children seem to be really enjoying learning their words and songs. As usual there will be boys dressed as girls and vice versa, lots of silly songs and hopefully a show that resembles the traditional tale but has a special "Darlinghurst" twist to it. The Nativity will be very sweet - the nursery classes and the reception classes are working together very well and their performances will definitely bring a tear to the eye.
Meanwhile we are still expecting the children to work really hard in their normal lessons. This keeps them focused and ensures that they don't get too carried away. There has been some special events this week - a visit from a "Victorian" drama group being the main one. This group worked with Year 5 and gave them a thoroughly informative and enjoyable experience of school life in the 19th Century. Despite one or two of the children being killed in industrial accidents and others dealt a blow with the cane they said that they had a great time and learned an awful lot. From the teacher's point of view the experience was excellent - full of real learning activities.
This evening we have the Headteacher's night from hell! 2 discos - one after the other. The children get all excited and run round like mad things while the teachers try and hide somewhere quiet!
Everyone is very busy learning new songs, practising dances, learning words and remembering when to stand and sit. The Christmas performance is nearly upon us - most of the school are performing our version of "Cinderella" and the Foundation children are recreating the nativity. The pantomime promises to be great fun and the children seem to be really enjoying learning their words and songs. As usual there will be boys dressed as girls and vice versa, lots of silly songs and hopefully a show that resembles the traditional tale but has a special "Darlinghurst" twist to it. The Nativity will be very sweet - the nursery classes and the reception classes are working together very well and their performances will definitely bring a tear to the eye.
Meanwhile we are still expecting the children to work really hard in their normal lessons. This keeps them focused and ensures that they don't get too carried away. There has been some special events this week - a visit from a "Victorian" drama group being the main one. This group worked with Year 5 and gave them a thoroughly informative and enjoyable experience of school life in the 19th Century. Despite one or two of the children being killed in industrial accidents and others dealt a blow with the cane they said that they had a great time and learned an awful lot. From the teacher's point of view the experience was excellent - full of real learning activities.
This evening we have the Headteacher's night from hell! 2 discos - one after the other. The children get all excited and run round like mad things while the teachers try and hide somewhere quiet!
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