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.

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The great thing about being a child is that you can get away with ‘messy play’ any time. The great thing about being a teacher is that you can also get away with ‘messy play’ any time! We have had a great end to our half term. The Year 6 children have amazed us with their incredibly calm attitudes towards SATs and we have welcomed a new teacher to our team. The art work in Fairsnape Class is beautiful and Year 2 had the pleasure of watching  Mr. Gilmour ‘see off’ the cows that were intruding on their nature walk. Year 5 amazed us (again) with their Shakespeare performances and children are constantly being given Golden Awards for their care and consideration of others. The Spring Bash was superb and we give thanks for the work of our PTFA. We also give huge thanks to the parents who are busily preparing our school floats for next weekend. It has caused a slight problem for staff , however, and it ended with Mrs.Kerr visiting A&E!

For any of you who do not know what UFA is, I will explain. Miss Taylor always tells me that I can run a school with my eyes closed but I amaze her how I have to call for back up when it comes to simple life skills. I am not offended by this because it does seem partly true! Since Miss Taylor’s welcomed return to school, I have managed to lock myself out of my cupboard and somehow managed to swap the doors to the opposite ends causing a jam. Miss Taylor solved this problem in seconds. I have entered wrong dialing codes and been a nuisance at the end of a phone and I made a great fuss about finding a butterfly that was actually a moth. Miss Taylor solved the phone problem but luckily she wasn’t in school on Friday to tut pleasantly at my mistake with insect identification!

“So it is written that the Christ would suffer and on the third day rise from the dead” (Luke 24:46)

“The Queen wouldn’t be very happy and neither would Miss Deakin!” (quote from an infant child)

It has been one of those weeks where you can’t put your finger on what you have done. I have been at buildings meetings, teaching, reading stories (without falling asleep in Pre-School’s quiet area), unblocking drains, trying my very best to get the gate buzzer fixed, updating school development plans, planning the budget, transporting children to the swimming gala, showing more new families around school and trying to fit more things into an already overcrowded timetable. Next week, I will be in Pre-School for the whole week and I have to say I am looking forward to it. One of our new 2 year olds managed to spot ‘my daddy’ on every page of a Dora The Explorer book. ‘My Daddy’ happened to be a tiny (compared to all of the other characters in the book) magician wearing a magical coat. I have met this little girl’s daddy and the two could not be further apart in appearance. It just shows you how the special people are thought about every minute of the day. I did not think that Pre-School would have been as successful as it currently is. We are now full on a Tuesday and Wednesday until September and we have growing lists of interest, as well as definite numbers, for the following two years. I would urge any of you who wish to join our Pre-School to collect a form and put your child’s name on our lists as we do not want to disappoint.