Well once again it seems that we are clearly seeing the effects of climate change now and the severe weather warnings keep coming. After the pouring rain of last week, we have then had the opposite extreme today with this intense heat which is forecast to continue for much of next week. I have said this before but I wanted to assure you all once again that we take the health and safety of all of our children very seriously. All classes have fans or coolers 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 also opened up the main hall at lunchtime today to all of the children to watch a film in a quiet, calm space if they wanted to.

Following on from this, despite it getting warmer in the afternoon yesterday, I am pleased to say that the weather was a lot kinder to us this year and we were able to go ahead with the sports day and it all ran as smoothly as it could have done. I want to thank all of the children for taking part and I want to give a special mention to the Year 6 children and work experience students 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 for the second year in a row, so well done to them for taking home the trophy once again this year.

Next week, Year 6 are going to be away for the week on their PGL residential, rest day and visit to Stanborough lakes. Mr Chanter and I will be attending this also and I will only be in school on Thursday so if you have any queries or concerns in our absence, please make contact with Mrs Robinson who will be only too happy to help. I am sure that the school will feel much quieter without us around.

Have a good weekend everyone.