Head Teacher's Blog

This week’s winners!

This week’s winners!

Mr Hall was full of praise for the two ambassadors who showed him round school this morning.

School Ambassadors from Year 5 show Mr Seggie (Parent Governor) the library.

Mr Grant (Chair of Governors) with School Ambassadors

Throughout the day, St Stephen's governors have been dropping in to see the school in action. They have been accompanied by 'School Ambassadors' from the top two classes. Here, two children from Year 5 are showing Mr Miller around the Year 2 classroom.

This afternoon, School Council had lunch with Mr Robin Garland MBE and then took part in a Q&A session to learn more about Project Mala - their chosen charity this year. The charity provides school places for children in rural India. The children will be launching Project Mala to the whole school…

Thank you to all our choristers (forty of them!) who turned up to sing at last night's Kearsley Lights Switch On. You showed great patience and I was proud of you!

FOSSS (Friends of St Stephen's School) recently made a generous donation to school funds. One of the things we have purchased is this wonderful nativity scene which was unveiled to the children at this morning's assembly. A big thank you to all members of FOSSS who do such a wonderful job…

During the second part of the assembly, every member of the St Stephen's Family places a star bearing their name on the branches of the Jesse Tree to show that we all belong. 

We held our traditional Jesse Tree assembly this morning. Our tree starts out with symbols representing the people and events that led up to the birth of Jesus - which leads us to think about the family of Jesus and how we are ALL part of that family......

I spent some time checking out the Enrichment Activities this afternoon. Some really great artwork, construction, yoga (to name but three). Today's favourite however, was cookery.   Partly because of the look of anticipation as our minichefs wait for the mince pies to bake but mainly because they…