Blandford St Mary Primary School Newsletter Headteacher: Mr Paul Lavis Deputy Headteacher : Mrs Sam Harris
December 2013 Volume 5, Issue 4
Contents:
Dear Parents
Fundraising update
2
After school clubs
2
School Nurse Drop-in
2
Severe weather
2
Message from FoS
3
Twas the night before Christmas
3
St Mary’s church Christmas services 4 Diary Dates
4
Celebration Assembly Dates 17th January ~ Yr 5
24th January ~ Yr 6
31st January ~ Reception
Hello All and a Merry Christmas! As the term comes to a close and as the collective Blandford St Mary Primary community crawl towards the finish line—desperate for a rest and a break, dragging themselves through Christmas lunches, parties and assemblies, eyes propped open with matchsticks… I wanted to say a big thank you for your kind comments and messages following the news that I will be moving on in 2014. It’s not been an easy month—emotionally— and I’m sure it will only get worse! I love Blandford St Mary Primary School and its community very much and it will be hard to go. However, change is constant and inevitable wherever you look and the time is right to move on and take up a new challenge… I mean: I keep on at the children here about ’working in the green’ and ’being the best that they can be’ so I need to show them that I live by the same rules. Possibly the biggest challenge at Shaftesbury will be getting used to their marking sys-
tem which uses pinks and greens the other way round! That means I’ll have to ’work in the pink’… I’m not sure how I feel about that yet! Christmas is a time of rejoicing and we must do so on behalf of Mrs Harris—who is to leave us on maternity leave today. We rejoice because she has been given the ‘all-clear’ following her surgery and can now focus on the impending birth of her number two. Good luck with that Sam! A Christmas joke for you: Mary asks Joseph to help with the chores… Joseph dear, put the rubbish out love would you please?
I can’t. It’s Christmas – there’s no room in the bin...
Have a great Christmas all.