Whole of the moon

Greetings all,

This week, I have been blown away by the amount of top quality work that keeps being sent to my desk, especially from years 5 and 6, to add to my star work wall. Equally, our new presentation books in reception are looking superb, and we are right to take pride in the brilliant things that are going on. All visitors thus far, including LA school improvement officers, singing teachers, contractors and new parents, have unanimously agreed that the children look very smart in uniform, that the quality of the work they have seen has been excellent, and that the school looks and feels a really happy and busy place.

So what have we learned this week?

Take that may be good, but we're better.
Year 6's books are not just good, they're better.
Reception this year have not started school as well as we thought they would - they were better.
Key Stage 1 corridors ands classrooms keep getting better. And better.

And, Miss Lee doesn't like spiders.

Music tuition has started, and sounds brilliant. And we've been invited to perform at the Colston Hall. More of this later...

I'll see you all at Molineux, as soon as I've learned how to spell it. One week to the Ryder cup. Why don't they do advent calendars for that?

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Trying, full marks for not...

Greetings blogosphere.

I met with a number of Bristol heads today who were telling me about their school. I was pleased to see many of them, as I now enter my third full year in Bristol, some of them are becoming friends. However, the main point for me today was how proud I am of what we are achieving every day. Not only was yesterday's singing sensational, a visitor (quite rightly) commented on how good the uniform was, and how smart everyone was. What pleasing news. No other heads, however, are following my three piece suit trend. This is, we are agreed, good news. And key stage 2's books, as I discovered at home this evening, are very pleasing.

In a week where Thea's main learning point was a trip to the village roadworks, and Ruben received a certificate for dance (he gets it from his father - background in choreography can't you tell?), what exactly have we learned.

• Year 5 should know by now that Mr Grierson's standards are high, and I will only accept good behaviour.
• Year 4 can write. And write. And write.
• So can year 6.
• Year 1 and 2 really love the rainbow room.
• Our new reception and nursery friends are amazing - its like they've been with us for ever.
• Year 3, when in the correct learning mood, can really work.
• It was my guitar out of tune, not his. And mine wasn't even artfully out of tune. It was, quite simply, a deaf woman in her 90s with no ears at all who hasn't heard physical sounds for several decades. Other than that it was okay...

So, before I go off to rehearse my "Dance like Baiomar" moves on the Wii, I should say that we have officially decided we are pleased with Monsieur Houllier. And my star board is the business.

That is all.

here he comes...

... hold on people.

He's gathering speed. He's assuming the correct angle. He's braced. Here he comes.

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Greetings everyone, and welcome back to 2010-11. It has been wonderful to hear all the stories of the things you got up to this summer. And the school, I hope you will agree, is looking pretty good right from the beginning.

I have been really looking forward to this year. I know we can achieve so much, and I have been delilghted to see so many people come back ready to learn and to work.

And so we are to get used to a Mr Houllier. We shall see.

Have a brilliant year everyone.

That is all