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.

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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.

It’s coming up to that time of year again, when the weather is colder and more ‘adverse’. I thought I might explain our position on ‘snow days’ so you know what to expect.

As you do, I was discussing Leon Festinger’s theory of cognitive dissonance with a colleague this week. Cognitive dissonance refers to a situation involving conflicting attitudes, beliefs or behaviours. This produces a feeling of mental discomfort leading to an alteration in one of the attitudes, beliefs…

We are having a school Christmas tree – all booked for delivery, and going up in the hall so every child can see it at lunch every day in December.

I wasn’t clear on what I wanted to write about this week; some obvious contenders as a theme were not entirely appealing and might be less of a good read. It has been just the normal, extraordinarily busy week in school, with the usual demands and delights, highs and highers, methods and meetings.

Magnetic locks, with remote control and operation, have been installed on our Shore Lane entrances. Some parents will assume we have always had such things, some will assume there is a legal minimum standard that would demand them on all school perimeter gates, some will say ‘about time’ and others will…