Preparing children for life is what school is about-this should put things into perspective.  For those of you who know me and understand my philosophy on education, this letter will come as no surprise. It isn’t often that I can discuss my views on education and my views on the testing process and current testing systems. If you walk into our school and visit classrooms, you will find creativity, children being listened to and lots of smiles and active learning. Our Year 6 children didn’t bother at all when it came to taking their SATs because they were thoroughly prepared and had been for some time. Learning didn’t change for them. They continued to thrive on a creative curriculum, where writing is exciting and grammar is taught through songs and dance moves! When children are excited and motivated to learn, they will thrive. Happiness first and all else will follow- under a blanket of excellent teaching, learning and care.

Save The Children Den Day has been ‘awesome’ and certainly a day the children will remember forever..

Brock Valley Churches Together are hosting a family picnic and walk followed by a short ecumenical service at Whalley Abbey on Sunday afternoon 2nd July.

Well done to all children who took part in the Barnacre Rd Football and Netball tournament.

Each day brings a new set of smiles and a new set of dilemmas. On Monday, there was no power to the school hall and the kitchen fridge broke. Luckily, I could keep out of the way a little because I am in class-and Loving it! With the power of delegation, a team from LCC came to solve the problems. Two days later, they were solved but today the internet is completely down. This has affected all classrooms and homework! I know that many of the children will be devastated to hear this but we will resume our usual internet power by Monday.

Our sincere thanks go to Mrs. Hamer, Sam Eastham, Bernadette Coulthurst, Alison Proctor, Caroline Griffiths, Vicki Coupe, Leila Spinks, Sam Coupe, Sara Arundale, Miranda Lockley-Briggs, Saz Walton and Nikki Brice for their time and dedication. They created wonderful floats for the Goosnargh Festival Day. They looked amazing! We thank Chris McGowan, who organised T-Shirts and Mark Eastham and Mark Joyce-our float drivers. It was a wonderful day that could only go ahead because of the huge amount of support given to our school. Thank you!

Thank you so much to all of our parents who supported Goosnargh Festival Day yesterday. Mrs.Hamer has such creativity and has put hours worth of work and time into the floats. She had help from our other wonderful parents and I will mention them all when I have the full list. It was brilliant to see so many children there dressed up as Trolls. The Pre-School float was adorable carrying our youngest children and the main school float was a visual feast. I didn’t manage to gain full confidence on the roller boots but I didn’t fall-neither did Miss Stewart. Thank you  to Alex Johnson, Mrs and Mrs Butters and all of the Goosnargh community who come together to organise this amazing event. It was great! The maypole dancers from our school were super representatives of St.Francis’ and we actually came 2nd place in the float competition! Thank you to all.