Blandford St Mary Primary School Newsletter Headteacher: Mr Paul Lavis Acting Deputy Headteacher : Miss Julia Ives
January 2014 Volume 5, Issue 5
Dear Parents
Contents: Coming into school
2
After school clubs
2
School Nurse Drop-in
2
Severe weather
2
Enterprise week
3
F.O.S
3
Messy Church
4
Diary Dates
4
Celebration Assembly Dates 17th January ~ Yr 5
24th January ~ Yr 6
31st January ~ Reception
Hope you’re all well! Wet? Soggy? Cheesed off with the ghastly weather? Well, I am but I’m not gloomy (that makes a change I hear you cry) because the children have come back to school with a real sense of purpose and endeavour and the school is buzzing at the moment so thank you for that! It’s all a bit peculiar at the minute. Preparations are being made for the appointment of the next headteacher (lucky so and so) the children are inspecting every visitor that sets foot in the school (the post-lady was in with a shout earlier in the week) and preferences are being shared very readily! Unfortunately, much to the disappointment of many of the staff: David Beckham isn’t available and Jose Mourinho is busy (trying to look good). So— someone a little more non-celeb it is then. One of the youngsters told me this week that they wanted someone ‘long’. ‘Tall’ is what I think they meant—they do make me laugh!
I was interviewed by the school council yesterday, asking what I thought about it all. It was a strange time. Their questions caught me off guard a little and I found myself feeling wistful and remembering this time when I was appointed. I looked around the table and saw these vibrant and thoughtful faces. Such intelligence. And I was struck by how this group really did reflect the profile of our school: able to ask such penetrating questions yet do so with a smile and a twinkle in the eye. What a lovely bunch—they allowed me to reminisce without rolling their eyes or sighing their impatience! Time passes in a flash—before you know it years have passed by and it’s difficult to see how it could have possibly happened that way. So the message this month is:
tempus fugit ergo carpe diem Stickers for those children who can tell me what that means and why I would write it!
Paul