Head Teacher's Blog

This afternoon we opened up the school library to younger children, they got to listen to and participate in numerous stories delivered by Anne Burns from the Schools Library Service.

This week's winners! 

This week's winners! 

This week's winners! 

This week's winners! 

Our Gardening Club have struck again as we welcome a familiar character to the playground helping to brighten up the environment.

I was joined by eight guests this week (past winners of the Star award) - good manners and good conversation all round!

One of our Year 2 pupils enjoyed the trip to Fletcher Moss Botanical Gardens so much he couldn't bear to 'leaf' - so he brought one back to school!

There's  no such thing as an ordinary day at St Stephen's - there's always SOMETHING going on. Today, after Reverend Kim's assembly I waved off Year 2 as they boarded the bus to Fletcher Moss Botanical Gardens, I then spent an enjoyable morning of maths and computing with Year 6 whilst Reception…

.......it's just a drill. We practised our school evacuation procedure (fire drill) this afternoon. Despite being engaged in a wide variety of activies in locations across the school grounds, the children moved quietly to the assembly point and were registered in less than two minutes - a new…

Tuesday is Music Day and these days that means rehearsing the songs from our forthcoming musical production - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. The children in Key Stage Two are sounding pretty amazing themselves.

After the brief interruption of SATs Week I'm happy to say that we are back to 'business as usual' (although I WILL miss those tasty SATs breakfasts!). It's been a good hardworking day throughout the school - even the ladies from our 'costume department' have been hard at work with their sewing…