Head Teacher's Blog
Headteacher blog 22nd November 2024
22/11/2024 · No comments yet
It has been a gloriously sunny but freezing cold week! The children enjoyed some snow-balling early on in the week but it was short-lived. Later on, ice collection was a favourite activity and an ice shop appeared on the field with tyre-fulls of frozen lumps ‘for sale’. The minibuses have been busy this week. Read More
Headteacher blog 15th November 2024
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It has been a really busy week again, with a full governing body meeting and lots of school tours: one of which was in the dark in the evening with no children – that’s a sales challenge! On one of the tours I was leading a group of prospective parents and children up to Read More
Headteacher blog 8th November 2024
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It has been an excellent first week of the half term including two very successful parents’ evenings. We also had children’s family photographs – a logistical nightmare, especially on a split site – and Y5 Bikeability training. We are enjoying the unseasonably warm and dry weather, with children still able to make full use Read More
Headteacher blog 25th October 2024
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It is the end of a long, eight-week half-term and everyone will be ready for a break. It has been a successful half term and I am pleased that the large number of new staff have all settled well and made a positive contribution already. I am in the season of tours for prospective Read More
Headteacher blog 18th October 2024
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We are showing lots of prospective parents around now, recruiting for September 2025. As the birth rate has dropped, marketing the school is an increasingly important part of my job. I do invest a lot of time into this, doing lots of tours during ‘normal’ school days rather than artificial ‘open days’. We have Read More
