Book Week is here!

Book Week started yesterday. Laid the groundwork last week with letters home about the Book Fair and the Dress up day as well as a full page in the School Newsletter including details of the writing competition.

The Deputy Principal started things off with a rousing rendition of Anne Fine's "Return of the Killer Cat" to a Year 4 class. The students are really getting into the Favourite Teachers' Books competition and the Book marks are coming in thick and fast.

Our production of "The Gruffalo" will now be performed 3 times - to Y3/4 tomorrow followed by Nursery, Foundation, Y1 & 2 and then again at the Y5/6 Assembly next Monday. There has also been agreement for a parade on Friday. This will be a little bit of a logistical nightmare but what's a bit of chaos with everything else that's going on.

Can't organise an Assembly as the competitions will not all be judged until next week or the week after plus we have moved stuff around to make our Gruffalo stage so difficult to set up in the Library. Latest plan is to start a parade though the school with Y6 then Y5, 4, 3 etc until they parade through the Library then head back upstairs to collect bags etc to go home.

We'll see how it goes. Book vendors should be delivering tomorrow. Tables were supposed to be moved today after school but they were still in the art rooms when I left. Will have to follow up on that tomorrow morning as the vendors want to try and set up in the afternoon.

Scholastic order was delivered today so that also caused a bit of a buzz. The Scholastic reps will come tomorrow to make sure everything is there and sort it all out so the kids should have new books to take home tomorrow night then the Book Fair on Thursday/Friday.

The Book Dragon looks incredible - there are still some scales coming in and lots of comments/discussions going on.

Staff morale is still low, pay finally arrived but there are rumours about staff having their contracts terminated due to low numbers returning next year. Tough times and little sign of things improving.