Weekly Update Friday 18th October
We had an unexpected end to the week today, and I would like to say thank you to all of the parents who were so understanding when picking their children up early today. Luckily emergency closures happen rarely in schools, and it always tests our procedures. We learned a lot from our first major power failure, and will reflect on today’s events. I would like to thank Mrs Palmer for coming to buy food with me, when the cookers lost power, and also thank all the kitchen and lunchtime staff who made lunches so quickly, enabling all children to be fed. what a feat that was! I would also like to thank Mrs Rawlings for getting a message out on the PTA Facebook page, and the parents who shared the information on their class WhatsApp groups. The teaching and office staff were fantastic helping too, especially when parents of siblings turned up a lot earlier than expected. Thank you everyone- what a team effort!
On a really positive note, the electricity is now back on. All systems seem to be working well and Clever Chefs have said that normal service should resume on Monday. Crazy M has sent through new dates and we will give you the date of the postponed PTA disco next week.
IIn other BWIS news, we are overjoyed to let you know we have been awarded the ‘Music Mark’ award in recognition of our music in school. We are absolutely delighted and would like to thank Mrs Moth, our Music Lead, and Georgina Carter, our Hampshire specialist teacher, for making music so much fun at BWIS. Well done!
Year 2 had a fantastic Great Fire of London Exhibition today, and the parents were amazed at how many facts our BWIS historians knew! Well done to our Year 2 children and staff!
Thank you again for all the harvest contributions this week. There was a write up on our latest news, and I just wanted to say again how proud I was of the whole school. The children were fantastic, and their teachers had made each part of it so much fun.
We have one more week in school before our half term break. At the end of half term BWJS will be having their grand firework display. It will be at Hoe Road Recreation Ground on Saturday 2nd November. Family Tickets are available to buy from their PTA via the school.
Wishing everyone a relaxing weekend.
Very best wishes
Mrs Riches
Headteacher
