Thursday 16th June

As usual we had a very busy day.  It started off with a Year 6 meeting for those parents that wanted to view the SRE materials before their children.  Attendance at the meeting has been about average for all of these meetings as many of the parents have viewed the material before having had other children in other years.
We were also fortunate to welcome Class 8 from the Infants to come and look around the Juniors.  We know it is often daunting moving from one environment to another, especially as we go up into the sky rather than spread out like the Infants.  I would say that the children were brilliant.  They were very confident in their approach and they all enjoyed having a good look around the school.  Well done to the Year 3's for conducting such marvellous tours of the school.

Write more soon

Wednesday 15th June

Today started of a little depressingly, I attended a meeting held by the local schools about how we can all support each other over the next few years, this however is a new and exciting direction, as collaborative learning rather than competitive learning across the schools will help and support the children in Sheldon and Acocks Green.  It will also be a great opportunity to harness the teaching talents that we have in local area.  What do they say, 'Two heads are better than one.'  Well in this case it was around 15 Heads.  I suppose the depressing part is the current state of our authority.  Being the second largest city in the country really is something to boast about, however with the restructuring of the authority and the loss of jobs due to cutbacks in funding and the need to save money it does feel like this city is in limbo.

However, that does not prevent us from doing all the exciting things in school.  I arrived back into school to be greeted with the sound of music, no literally it was the sound of music.  I could hear the sound of Doe a deer permeating from the building and that was enough to cheer me up straight away.  It just goes to show that working in a school really is rewarding as well as frustrating some days.

Today marked the start of our School Development Plan.  This gives us a chance to look at the school and what we have achieved as well as where we need to go next.  Tonight gave the teachers the opportunity to express their opinions on the four key areas within the school.  We structure our work around Teaching and learning (curriculum), Ethos, Buildings and Leadership and Management.  This gives the staff the opportunity to air their opinions and therefore contribute to the development of the school.

Over the next half term, the children and parents will be given the opportunity to express their opinions of the school.  Whilst opinions are usually positive, I am and have always been open to opinions that are negative.  We always can improve!  Whilst we sometimes can't provide the children with everything that they want for example, skateboard parks and swimming pools.  I believe that the children of Lyndon Green Juniors have a very large say in the development of this school and are given some exciting opportunities to enhance their learning as well as their social skills.  We hope that they build up a bank of memories that they can take away with them in the future.

Wow I have gone on a bit...

Tuesday 14th June

Well, where does the time go.  We are now well on out way to then end of the school year and school is working at its maximum, the children of Years 3, 4 and 5 have been working hard on their tests over the last two weeks, whilst the Year 6 children have started their work on this years production. 

The production this year will be BUGSY MALONE.  It really is a blast from the past, and I am sure that many of you will recognise lots of the songs.

This week we are conducting our SRE viewings across the school, allowing parents the chance to view the materials before their own children do.

I will be completing the essential dates list today and hope to have uploaded them onto the website as well as on this blog.

Well this is a brief post as a welcome back but I aim to put more on later on in the day