Visitors

I'm always very proud to show visitors around our school. The children are always lovely and the classrooms so warm and welcoming. It is a treat for me and people who come to visit always leave with very positive views. Today we were visited by 43 members of staff from a school in Oslo (which is in Norway despite what Mr Duff thinks) called Mankerud. The principal, Mr Morten Sesseng, contacted me some months ago to arrange the visit after seeing our school website and hearing me talk at another school. The visitors spent the whole day with us and when they left they were full of praise for the children and the teaching that they had seen. They said that our children were a credit to us and to their parents, that they had seen some learning that they would never forget and they wished that they could reproduce our school within theirs! As you can imagine this made me feel very proud and I left school tonight feeling taller than ever!

Summer Term

The Summer Term starts today. This should be a very busy period of the year with lots of exciting things happening over the course of the next three months or so. The term started really well yesterday - a group of 34 children and 3 members of staff left the school at around 10 am to begin the annual school journey to the Isle of Wight. By the time the rest of the teacher had finished their working day the travellers had arrived at their destination, unpacked, explored and prepared for their first activity.

This morning, Tuesday, is the first day of term for the children and we opened the doors at 8.00am for our breakfast club members. Around 50 of our keenest pupils were waiting at the door for their breakfast cereal, toast and drinks. Most looked a little heavy around the eyelids as though getting up had been a bit of a struggle today! Mind you most of the adult looked quite similar and they were is school for the day yesterday!.