Moonballs, flooding and the Christmas Fair....

The moon ball.  A cleverly designed ball made for maximum fun.  Extra bouncy, neon in colour, with dips and slightly hexagonal sides. The moon ball, when bounced, can go off at any angle.  It fits snugly into the palm of a child’s hand for throwing and catching and is most popular amongst the younger members of our community here at St. Peters.  Designed exactly for fun, but also designed EXACTLY the right size to enter and then stick in a drain pipe.

 And so the week unfolded.  Weather of biblical proportions, aided by the unblocking of said drain pipe which caused an almighty whoosh of rain water into the front hall.  The team dealt with the sudden tidal wave admirably - whipping Christmas shoe boxes out of reach and turning off the Christmas tree lights.  Office staff, teachers and maintenance team all worked brilliantly together getting it all back to working order as soon as possible.  My thanks to them.

On Tuesday we held our second FOSP meeting in the new format with the Class Reps as part of the meeting and school business at the top of the agenda and this went extremely well.  Class or year group representatives are hugely important and valuable to both myself as Head and to the entire the school community, not only so we can nip any issues in the bud, but also for feedback on ideas of development for the school.  We discussed since September how we have addressed issues such as signage, future schools' advice needing to be for younger year groups and reporting to parents on standardised data.  I asked opinions on uniform and the gradual (three year) roll out of an update to the games kit from next September and spoke of my plans to develop the outdoor learning and move the house system forward.  Next time we meet I will have games kit samples to show the Class Reps to get some feedback ‘on the ground’.   Our attention then turned to the business of organising events and the staff, children and I are greatly looking forward to the Christmas Fair.  My great thanks to FOSP for such wonderful organisation, ideas and commitment to make such a magical event for St. Peters.  Possible summer term events were discussed with ‘St. Peter’s Dog Show’ being my favourite so far!    

Dog Show at St. Peter's next summer?