It is the end of another busy week in school. I know that many of you have been in school for your parent consultation meetings and I hope that you all feel they were useful- the teachers were certainly very positive about the meetings and the supportive way that parents engaged with them. I know that we are all joined in the one goal of wanting to do the best for the children in Little Heath and having parent support makes that so much easier to achieve. As you all know Mrs Nixon was unfortunately unwell and so had to cancel her appointments but we will re-schedule these after the half term.

It has been a little bit of a sad day in school because our school cook Louise left us today. Everyone here was sorry to see her go because she has been an excellent cook (her chicken pie is legendary) and she has twice been nominated for ‘Cook of the Year’ in our region. All the children said goodbye to her in assembly and although she is looking forward to the challenge of her new position I know she is going to miss everyone in Little Heath. I have not been informed about who is going to replace her as I think at first they will be covering her post with a cover cook but as soon as I know who she is I will inform you.

As you know we have had an Equalities Week in school and it has been very successful. There has been a sea of red in school today because we were supporting the ‘Wear Red for Racism’ day and I would like to thank you for all your donations. However, we have been covering all aspects of equality this week including stereotyping, sexual orientation and disability and I know that all the children have really engaged well with the learning. I do think it is important that we nurture acceptance of everyone in our children and that they grow up being tolerant of everyone for being who they are.

We now have the half term to look forward to and I am sure that like all of us you are all looking forward to it. I have to admit that it has come at a good time for the school because we have had a lot of illness in school and that hopefully this holiday will give us the ‘circuit break’ we need and everyone will return to school healthy. I hope that you all have a great time and I look forward to seeing you all again on Monday, 31^st October.