Thank goodness that the temperature has gone up since the beginning of the week although the weather could still not be described as warm. On Monday it was below freezing and I was certainly wearing many layers so I could be outside. What amazes me is that many of the children do not appear to feel the cold and they were coming outside in just their school shirts - they certainly must have different blood running through their veins compared to me.

You will have noticed that we have been displaying our lost property outside in the hopes that it finds its rightful owner. We have accumulated this because too many children do not have names in their clothing and therefore we cannot return it to whoever it belongs to.  I know I keep saying it but can you please make sure that all your children’s school items are clearly labelled so that we do not end up with a heap of clothes at the end of every term. With everything going up in cost at the moment I would think that this is a time that we ensure we take care of all our things so we do not have to replace them.

I know that next week some of you are going to be inconvenienced by some of our teachers taking strike action but I hope you can understand why they feel it necessary to do so. As the NEU leaflet explained there are problems in education because of a lack of funding and resources. We find it very difficult to recruit because people find that they are better rewarded in other occupations for doing less work and we are finding it increasingly difficult to meet the needs of all the children because we do not have access to all the resources we require through a lack of availability or funding. This situation does need to change if we want our children to develop to their full potential

I do hope that you all have a great weekend. Apparently the weather is going to reach double figures next week which is going to feel tropical compared to the -6 degrees that we started last week with.