Headmaster's Message
Dear Parents
Welcome to this week’s newsletter. We have enjoyed the company of four out of the eight classes in the school during the week as well as those children attending the key worker provision. It has been great to see so many happy and hard-working children back in school, enjoying the company of their friends. Safety has been uppermost in our minds but we have also wanted to make this a positive experience for the children. I do believe we have succeeded in doing so. I walked out on the field earlier in the week and saw the Year 1 children practising individual ball skills at one end of the pitch and the Year 6 children taking part in shuttle races at the other. It looked something like summer term in a prep school! Of course, things are by no means back to normal, but it has been lovely to take a step in the right direction this week.
For those children who have yet to return, we have ensured that home learning continues unabated and that their learning will not be negatively affected. As I speak, teachers are hard at work writing reports for all of the children and many of them have been able to comment on the resilience and adaptability that the children learning from home have shown.
We have been thinking hard about how we can stage the various end of term events. In this week’s newsletter you will find updated information in the Events section on such things as the Welcome Evening and the Leavers’ Service. It seems to me that the best option at this stage is to carry on with these events and use the available technology to make them open to all. I feel that putting them off until the autumn term would probably not help very much and it is better to do them now, at the right time. Today's messages are really an outline of how we will run these events as well as confirming the dates for you.
Have a great weekend everyone.
