I am very glad to be able to send you this blog this week
because I have been having a lot of problems with my new laptop and it has
really been frustrating me! Everything has been taking twice as long to do and
my patience has been stretched to its very limit. I suppose technology is all
great and wonderful while it works but it becomes the most annoying thing ever
when it does not. Let us hope for better things next week.
After the half term break the children have settled quickly
back into the school routine. Apart from the Sharing assembly it has been quite
a normal week in school but next week there are many events taking place in
school. The choir are taking part in ‘A Million Voices’ at the Wembley arena,
some children are taking part in a ‘Maths Challenge’ at Haileybury School,
another group are attending a Fairtrade service at ‘Our Lady and St Vincent RC’
church and of course, it is ‘World Book Day’ on Thursday. As you all know our
theme this year is Shakespeare and we have asked all the children to come
dressed as characters from his plays. I know all the children will not be
familiar with his works but we thought that this would be a great opportunity
to explain to them why he is so important and how many of his sayings are still
part of our everyday language.
When I say it has been a normal week I am sort of missing
the ‘elephant in the room’ because today is the day that the annual school
reports go out. The teachers have spent a lot of hours in writing the reports
and I hope you find their comments and suggestions useful in helping to move
your children’s learning forward. I have read them all and I am happy at how
they reflect the children’s progress and attitude to learning but it is obvious
from reading them that some children could be applying themselves to their
studies more diligently so, hopefully, if this applies to your child, you will
reinforce this message at home.
Although the winter weather is still with us the days are
getting longer and brighter so thankfully our sporting features calendar has
started up again. The girls have a football match tonight and the boys have one
next week. I always find it very uplifting when all the matches start again
after winter because it is a sign that spring is on its way. It is hard to
believe that it will be March next week and Easter will be over by the end of
the month.
Have a great weekend and I will see you all again on Monday.