At the risk of sounding clichéd by beginning this blog talking about the weather, it would be amiss of me not to do so. It seems that we are clearly seeing the effects of climate change now and the severe weather warnings keep coming more and more often these days. Which brings me onto this heat that we have been experiencing these last few days and which is forecast to continue until at least the beginning of next week. I wanted to address this first by assuring you all that we take the health and safety of all of our children very seriously. All classes have fans in them and we have been ensuring that the children are keeping themselves well hydrated throughout the day and that during lunch and break times, they stay in the shade as much as possible. We have also opened up the main hall at lunch to all of the children to watch a film in a quiet, calm space.

Following on from this, despite the heat, I am pleased to say that we still managed to go ahead with the sports day yesterday and although it was certainly a warm affair to say the least, for the most part it all ran as smoothly as it could have done. As I mentioned in my email beforehand regarding this, we had been monitoring the forecast all week and we felt that despite the heat, it was better to go ahead with it now before the temperatures potentially creep up even further next month. I want to thank all of the children for taking part and I want to give a special mention to the Year 6 children who I hope you will all agree did a grand job at leading the events. I also want to thank all of the parents for coming to cheer on their children and especially those brave enough to take part in the parents’ races at the end –there were some lightning fast runners so I’m glad I didn’t come up against them! Finally, I want to thank all of the staff who helped to run it, but especially Mr Mills for all of his hard work in organising and putting it all together on the day. Grangewood were the eventual winners so well done to them for taking home the trophy this year.

Next week, we have Year 6 away for much of the week on their PGL residential. I am sure that they will have a great time and I know that the school will feel much quieter without them around. Year 4 and Year 5 are both going off to Stanborough lakes on Monday and Friday respectively and having taken a class there before, I know what an amazing time they will all have –especially when they get to cool off in the water when they jump (or fall) in!

On Friday next week, we also have our local MP, Andrew Lewin, who will be visiting Little Heath to see all of the wonderful learning going on in the school, so all in all, there is plenty that will be going on.

Have a good weekend everyone.