With the help of our minibus, the children in UFA will be going out and about every week. Mrs Rossall and Mrs Jones took the board games group out to Belmont Care Home this week and they brought smiles to many faces. Thank you to the staff and residents of Belmont House for welcoming us. We hope to go again very soon with a different group of children. Next week, the photography group are visiting an art gallery and they will spend the afternoon working with a real artist! Stating the obvious, my animal welfare group needn’t go anywhere outside our school for a few weeks because we have four new chickens and two nests of newborn rabbits to tend to! We have had an unbelievable turn of events regarding our lovely animals and we have been blessed with tiny rabbits- Wallace and Gromit’s ‘The Ware Rabbit’ is no patch on us! We are looking after them with lots of love and care and I politely ask you all to leave the hutches alone because we do not want our scent on the babies, which could most likely cause the mother rabbits to disown and stop feeding the little ones. We will let nature take its course but I will keep a close check on their progress. Mothers and babies are all doing well and the little ones continue to have plump tummies and wriggle nicely beneath the blankets of fur.

Just have a look at these performances of our Glee club. We are uploading more of our choir and band very soon. This is what Primary School education is all about-having fun and enjoying a wide range of activities. I am sure these will make you smile- I am absolutely awestruck!

Mrs. Rossall and I couldn’t help but laugh this morning as she presented me with a bag of teeth that had been found inside a book at our book swap yesterday! Book swaps are always exciting but little did we know there would be hidden treasure belonging to a mystery child. If anyone has lost a little yellow bag of teeth, we are keeping them safe in the school office. I explained to the children that we can write letters to the tooth fairy so parents can keep our precious teeth and I expect this is what has happened in this particular case. As I write this blog, I am in hysterics because it is a first for me but so typical for a day in our school! Well done Fynn for organising the book swap-super job! The children enjoyed swapping books and discussing new books with each other.

I have known our school adviser for a while now and it was nice to see her again on Tuesday. We talk about all sorts of things-the things that are to do with school improvement, data, statistics and everything else that fit into a meeting between a Headteacher and a Local Authority adviser. Five little knocks sounded at my office door (which isn’t usually closed) and five eager little boys strolled in. I could not have planned their conversation better. The Year 1 boys had come in to show me their letter writing skills. Interestingly enough, the letters were attached to underpants and these were dangling from treasury tags. When I pointed to a comma that the first little boy had used within his writing, he told us that he used this so he didn’t have to keep repeating the word ‘and’ and he looked quite surprised that I didn’t know this myself. Another little boy read his letter to us and I spotted a typical spelling misconception. I pointed to the word ‘t-igh-m’ and discussed the grapheme he had correctly used for the sound but it was a tricky spelling. I was immediately corrected by the third little boy, who told me that it wasn’t tricky because it was ‘just a split digraph’ and they know lots of them! The same little one told us that he didn’t like reading and then a conversation began about how they are reading ‘Chapter books’ and not ‘small’ stories. Now, all of this was still going on as our school adviser sat and listened in delight. I could have chatted to these Year One boys all day long about such interesting facts; I sometimes forget that they know far more than I did when I was their age. With sparkly stickers, they were happy and left the room. Wow!