Several of the families from our community, most of whom attend St. George's Church have, for the past few years, spent a weekend together at Brunel Manor, a hotel near Torquay. Leaving school quite promptly on Friday we all zipped down the link road (Roger knew of some country lanes through Winkleigh and went a quicker route) and we all [...]
A great morning, this morning with families coming in to the school to have their breakfast... whether bacon, sausage or egg rolls (or all three) or the healthier option of cereal or fruit. Hopefully you managed to be served a coffee or tea by me too?! It's a lovely start to the day giving our families an opportunity to share [...]
Next week is our end of year assessment week in class 4 and we will be doing our SATS (Standardised Assessment Tests) and 'optional' SATS from Mon to Thurs. The children in all year groups do these assessments at the end of every year, so year 6 won't be doing anything different from any other year group, it's just that [...]
You know about Sean don't you? Sean lives in Bolembu, in Swaziland, in South Africa. We sponsor Sean through the Child Sponsorship Programme with a charity called Challenge Ministries Swaziland. This all came about because of a chap called Jon Skinner. Jon lives in Ilfracombe, he visited Swaziland, he stayed for years with his family, he helped set-up a school [...]
I've just been asked by some of the girls in Class 3 if they could apply for the pen licences. Ooh, that'll put some pressure on class 4 if they're successful! However one of them also said that a pen licence would force them to be neat with their handwriting... (?) I like this cart-before-the-horse thinking - it shows a [...]
Class 3, along with the year 3 and 4 children from Kingsacre and Marwood Primary Schools, took over Morte Point today...
Some of us (The Shaddicks) turned up early and set up camp (a mansion of a shanty town just for the two of them) and some of us arrived after dinner time to work out where was best to set up camp given that most of the carpet space had been taken by either the mansion or Shelter Box's tent, [...]
I wonder what it's like to sleep somewhere new, weird, odd, strange, possibly even worrying (...it's not frightening.) I wonder what it's like to sleep on a concrete floor with only cardboard to make it comfy? The Big Sleep In Shelterbox will be sharing a small presentation of what they do at St George's on Friday evening, we'll [...]
