Head Teacher's Blog

Advance warning of a fund raising event being organised by our School Council. We have a link school (Serrekunda Lower School) in the Gambia and the children have decided to raise funds to buy the sort of basic school equipment that we take for granted here at St Stephen's. Two classes will also…

This morning Reverend Kim Lafferty led the first of four special 'Lenten Tree Project' assemblies. Each week the children will focus on different aspects of the Easter Story and then visit the Lenten Tree (which is made from the trunk of the Kearsley Community Christmas Tree) to place symbols…

It will all be over by Thursday - I hope. Patience is again required by parents and visitors to school - at least the weather is dry if you're walking that bit further from the car. Patience is also required by our Key Stage 2 pupils who have lost their football yard (again) for the next few days…

In a very special assembly, children's author Eamonn Reilly inspired the children by reading from a selection of his books and discussing how to become a better writer. The children will be able to purchase signed copies of his books over the next few days.

Author Eamon Reilly is taking assembly this morning. He is giving us lots of ideas for writing whilst sharing some of the books that he has had published. For more ideas visit his website...

http://www.er-reilly.co.uk

The second half of the Spring Term is a short one (only four weeks long) but it looks like a busy one! The school diary is already filling up with author visits, World Book Day, Parents' Evenings, Mother's Day Gifts on sale, the 'Big Clean Up for the Queen', Sunday Walking Club to the Jumbles,…

The takings have been counted, the float has been deducted and the start-up capital has been re-paid. At the end of an extremely frenetic afternoon of buying and selling - the class with the biggest profit in this year's Mini Enterprise Week are YEAR 2. Well done everyone!

The hall was filled with the sound of ringing cash registers this afternoon as each class competed to sell their products and maximise profits.

For the right price you could pick up greetings cards, cup cakes, bead bracelets, pencil toppers, carrot and cress seeds - you could even adopt a…

I was joined on Top Table by last week's Star Award winners. They had good manners and great appetites!

This picture of an empty playground during a DRY lunchtime shows that our INVACUATION practice was a success. As well as practising evacuation (more commonly known as a fire drill) schools have to practise getting all the children off the playground and into the building as quickly as possible (in…

This morning the whole school went over to the church for assembly. Reverend Kim told the children all about Lent and the origins of Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday. As you can see, some of the children (including these two from Year 5) volunteered to have their hand daubed with ash (as a…