Headteacher Weekly blog week beginning 24th October
Date: 1st Nov 2016 @ 4:16pm
Time marches on and it is hard to believe we have come to the end of our first half term already.
Last week, I attended the PTA annual meeting. Several members stepped down from their posts and we thank Mrs Sarah Green and Mrs Roberts for their hard work in raising significant sums of money for the school. Mrs Green now takes on the role of Chair of the PTA and they are already planning lots of exciting ways of raising money. We are potentially looking to use the money raised on books or computing equipment. Future projects could well be foucsed on the outside of school with suggestions including a mile trak around school, playgorund markings and a MUGA (multi purpose astro turf pitch).
Staff have been busy putting the finishing touches to their displays in corridors and classrooms to welcome new families to our school at our Open Day. We showed around several families who are looking to join our Nursery or Reception next year. I am sure they were impressed with all the work on display and the great many things that the pupils have experienced over the last few months and terms.
As parents went around the school, there was a crime scene in Early Years! There was hay everywhere, suspicious footprints and the Little Red Hen had gone missing! It was all part of their topic on this text and the children were very excited to solve the clues, find the naughty animal and rescue the hen.
It was that time of year again for the Year 6 pupils to learn how to ride their bikes safely and responsibly. As always the tutors were excellent and they said how sensible the children were when out and about on the roads throughout the village. When I spoke to the children, they all said they had a great time and it comes as no surprise to me that they all passed. I just hope they now put into practise what they have learnt when cycling out of school.
This half term has been a huge success in respect of sport. The Year 5 and 6 football team had their 1st round cup match against Oldfields. It was their first match of the season and they grew in confidence as the game progressed. It finished 2 - 0 and we march on to the next round. Mr Bond took his hockey team, fresh from their win in the Broxton cup, to the Deeside Ramblers hockey tournament, which we won last year. The team made it all the way into the final without conceding a goal! In the final they met Tattenhall - again! It ended 0 - 0, but we lost in Golden Goal. Runners up this time, but yet again another wonderful performance. I am so proud of all the children's efforts in sport this half term.
I spent some time this week in some maths lessons to see first hand the Bar Method approach to solving problems which we have recently introduced. In Year 5, the children are really enjoying the strategy. They were using practical apparatus for the bars, drawing them on whiteboards and some were even drawing on the tables! They assured me it does wipe off. The class were attacking quite complex problems, but the bar method was certainly helping them to identify the steps needed to solve the problem. Pity it didn't help me - I got the answer wrong! Didn't read the question properly!! Mrs Wakefield made me stay in at break to correct it.
I hope everyone has a relaxing half term and comes back raring to go! The second half of Autumn term is always a long one, but the run up to Christmas is awlays that little biut special.