The First Newsletter of 2010

Full Newsletter with Diary Dates and Activities

Lots of activities have had to be cancelled or postponed since the start of term.  One re-arranged activity was called the Coventry Inspirational Book Bout.  Mrs Knibb, Mrs Bailey and six of our Year 6 children attended a competition involving eight schools.  The object of the exercise, was to present to the other schools reasons why the book allocated to the school (ours was called Archie’s War) should be the book that children should vote for, to win the competition.  I attended the ‘Bout’ with the children and I was so proud of their presentation.  They were brilliant – so brilliant in fact that the Library Service Managers voted our children’s presentation as the best (awarding all children, and the school with school books as prizes) and the children from other schools voted Archie’s War in to 2nd place, (just two points behind the winner).  Everyone’s efforts were very impressive.  A great start to the term!

Let’s hope the weather is kinder to us from now on.  We’ve had such a stop/start early part of term.  Thank you for your co-operation and understanding regarding our closures this week and last week.  Our two main problems are accessibility to the site and our supply of salt/grit.  Despite many pleas, Plantshill Crescent never seems to get gritted, thus causing dangerous surfaces for anyone trying to access the area.  We only have 2 small grit bins on site which traditionally have contained enough grit/salt to use on site most winters.  This year supplies have been erratic arriving at school, therefore stopping our hard working Site Officer, Mr Malone, from maintaining safe pathways for everyone.  We used the last salt/grit last Friday morning, but then had an emergency delivery.  We do have enough salt/grit left to keep main pathways open.  There is not enough to safely clear playground areas.  We hope for rain and a thaw over the weekend.  To prepare for future times of severe weather we have ordered 2 more grit/salt bins for school use.  This should help in future years.