When will we be open again for all pupils? Is it because of schools that we have 'lockdown'?

We asked, 160 parents responded, and we are taking note and acting

Why things are important to that person (when they seem less so to others)

'Something is wrong if workers do not look around each day, find things that are tedious or boring, and then rewrite the procedures'; continuously improving remote learning.

I have been asked recently, quite a few times and quite forcefully at times, why our school does things differently to a school next door or a school up the road.

The simple and honest answer is, always, because we are different.

To illustrate, here are some figures from this week’s…

I was pondering the half-full / half-empty view of life. I find that I habitually challenge colleagues and friends to look at things the other way round when we are questioned or perhaps sell ourselves short, or fail to see what strengths we have and what achievements we have made.

2% off…

Parents will wonder why we haven’t got everything sorted for lockdown schooling as quickly as the Prime Minister suggested in his address to the nation on Monday 4th January (see it here).He announced at 8:00 pm that all schools would move to remote leaning from the next morning. ‘Schools are closed’…

To give clarity where there is 'noise' and confusion, speculation and doubt, rumour and contradiction:

The Greater Depth standard in writing (though there isn’t one for reading or maths) has only four requirements:

It has been about five years since we invested heavily (for us), and used a tidy grant from a sport-promoting charity, to carpet and equip our lower playground.