Dear Staff,

It gives me great pleasure to welcome you back after the summer holiday. I hope you managed to find time to relax and to spend time with your family. I realise this is hard to do during term time which is why I tried to restrict how many emails and text messages I sent you over the last six weeks. Thank you to those staff members who managed to email the information I needed. For those of you who didn’t have time because you were trying to have a break, please could you email me ASAP with the information I asked for.

I know many of you wanted to pop into school over the holidays to create an exciting learning environment for the children. But as you know, the cleaners didn’t want to be disturbed during the holiday which is why the school was only open yesterday. The cleaners said they couldn’t remember how your classrooms were set out, so they just put all of your furniture in the middle of the room. I hope that didn’t cause you too many problems; it shouldn’t have taken too long to sort out. I hope giving you the last hour on the inset day was enough time to sort your classrooms out…

2017-19 Full blogs are now archived in the book ‘How Do You Think the Lesson Went?’