Staff visit to Sweden

The question of how much to tell parents about the detail of school life can sometimes be at odds with the need present simply and clearly the successes of the school. This dilemma was thrown into focus this week by the matter of school finance. The truth is that expectation about what the school can do is rising, fuelled…

We have been reminded this week of how precious – but fragile – life is. In our worship time we remembered all those in our community, young and old, who are hurting following this week’s accident and sad, sad death of formal pupil Ollie Pain. The death of a young person is always tragic, and there are no easy answers. In the silence we observed…

(Belated posting)This week was all about preparing for the Italian ‘mobility’ – a visit to another school in our international art project. Actually, that’s not quite true. Most of this week was spent working at near double-pace in order to get on top of work that I would not be doing because I was going…

Half-termJust a quick update to praise the work of FONNS. I attended the Frog Race on Saturday and was absolutely astonished by the amount of money raised to support the children. Thank you everyone who planned this, who  publicised the event, sold tickets, moved furniture, cooked and served, as well as contributing to the fund raising in…