Headteacher blog 1st March

A leap into March and we are trying to declare spring time at school. Reception children have been collecting frog spawn from the pond (and laughing at Mrs Galbraith struggling in the mud) and RGK have visited the farm and sown seeds. For many, it was their visit to the chickens. Soon we will also have some KuneKune pet pigs on the farm.

Earlier this week, Year 5 went on a school building tour looking at the different materials in the building and their properties. Somehow, this activity also became a ‘condition survey’ and the children seemed to take undue delight at telling me all the maintenance and refurbishment work that needs to be done. It seems that they expect me to get it all done by next week! Maintaining the building is a big and very costly job and we do our best with limited funds. We are hoping to get lots of windows replaced in the juniors this summer but there won’t be much left for other jobs.

On Saturday afternoon we have our last cross-country races of a disrupted season. It looks like an interesting course at Woodhouse Grove, including some woodland and straw bale obstacles, so it should be a good event. I recall a slippery slope there a few years ago so it could be an amusing race too…