I am do not normally get nervous about new things generally but the children have been talking about 'The Children's Fair' for months - basically saying it has always been the best thing since sliced bread!!!

'So no pressure there then Miss Rogers - it has to be at least as good as before and it must have a Terror Tomb!' said one teacher with a huge smile on their face!!! So yes, I had a few nerves running up to it last week...but actually I didn't need to as the children did a marvellous job of running it all themselves.

 - I firstly must thank the Children's Fair Committee - the 5 core members who made up the Leadership team did a grand job of sharing information, making decisions and relaying this to the stall holders. They were also brilliant with helping to set up and tidying away afterwards too! 

 - Next the stall holders - you were very eager, well prepared and you ensured that you were polite and courteous when children came to your stalls. Thank you. I particularly loved to see you cooperate so well with others and the originality of your poster campaigns were fab!

 - Next the Fair Goers - thank you so much for bringing in your pocket money to spend at the fair. You have helped to raise funds for playtime and lunchtime equipment. These will be ordered this week so hopefully, your new equipment will arrive in time for the first week back. I was also really pleased with the number of children who came to say thank you for allowing it to happen. Your politeness made me smile.

- Thank you also to the parents who helped the children organise their stalls, provide equipment, hunt for old books and toys to donate and bake cakes (sorry once again for the misunderstanding regarding numbers - I can not believe the children came home asking for the numbers they did!!!)

- Finally thank you to our Support staff and Teachers who helped with fine details and ensured that all of the children had good fun! It was lovely to see so many of them all joining in with the children - that is so important to me!!

On Monday, our Children's Fair committee will work out how much profit they have made once they take off the expenditure... I am pleased to say though...I am positive they have made a tidy profit. News of this will be shared asap. Well done everyone -it was a great success!!!

Today our Year 1 Children were so excited about inviting their grandparents and close relatives in to school to talk about toys. The children had written some instructions for a game and they had to see if they were understandable. There were also some other traditional games to play with and our visitors had the chance to talk about what they played with when they were young.

I am so grateful to our visitors for either giving up their free time or for taking an afternoon off work. Today's experience  brought the children's learning alive and that is so, so important. The children really enjoyed it and we are hopeful that our visitors did too. Thank you also to my super team who made it all possible.  

Today our whole school had one of our special 'Love of Days' where we focussed on a moral aspect. Our theme was 'Celebrating Differences' whereby we learned about understanding physical differences through the mind of a Paralympian/Sportsperson with a disability . We started the day by having a launch assembly where I outlined the different journeys to disability - genetic, at birth, accident and illness. We then thought about how all people have goals/aspirations and the values needed in order to succeed...concluding that despite our differences - the values of determination, perseverance, commitment, strength and courage are exactly the same for all.

Each year group from Years 1-6 had a different group of athletes' and sports-peoples' stories to discover and the children wrote poems, newspaper articles, drew pictures, produced plays and used ICT to create fact files. In Early Years the children focussed on a story called 'William and the One Winged Dragon' which helped the children to understand that anyone can play sport and be part of a team.

At the end of the day we had a sharing assembly where representatives from each year group explained their learning to others. As usual the discussions we had with the children were very powerful and we were genuinely impressed with what the children were saying. We all discovered that we have different journeys but strive for the same destination. Tolerance, working together as a team plus having friends, families, coaches and people who believe in us are so, so vital so that we all find success in something and achieve.

It was lovely seeing the children getting very excited this morning. Fun was had before we got them into class and then again at breaktime.

Please do keep checking our website when snow has fallen as we will update as soon as we can. Our snow procedures are outlined in our Emergency Closure Information which is in the Parents' Section of our website. If and when we have considerable snow and school remains open our registration time will be extended until 10am to allow you extra time to get into school safely.

Check out the photographs below - some of learning was very much linked to our snowy weather today!!

p.s If we need help clearing the site, we will also text our volunteer working party to help clear.