Summer Fair
Howdy Y’All!
The children look absolutely AMAZING today all dressed in their “Country/Cowboy/Cowgirl” clothes! You have always come up trumps with these dressing up days, but today I think you have really all excelled yourselves. Thank you!
The children have also been very excited today about “moving” to their new Year Group. We welcomed Miss Whitwam too for her first taster day at school. I hope our Year 6 children have a great day at their High Schools too.
What a lovely week we had last week in Wales with the Year 6 children. This week they – and all the other children in school- have been very busy working on Moana. The rehearsals have gone really well. The children act, sing and dance brilliantly and the costumes are amazing!
Ticket sales for this have been exceptional and Wednesday night sold out completely earlier this week. There are around 28 tickets left for Tuesday afternoon.
Details about logistical arrangements for the shows on Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday evening will be sent out on Monday.
So, this afternoon it is the PFA Country Summer Fair. It’s not going to rain (Shhhhh)! A final running order is attached to this Dojo. Jocasta and the PFA have worked very hard indeed over the past few weeks preparing for this event. A huge thank you to them.
The Maypole display (for the first time ever with a Country and Western theme!) begins at 3.00pm. Entry will be through the glass tunnel doors and they will open at 2.50pm.
The other events of the fair will begin straight after this but we will at first return all the children to you in the normal after school way (whether you are coming to the fair or not) so after the Maypole performance please go and wait for your child/ren in your usual home time spots.
From Monday next week I will just have 10 days left as Head of this school. I sincerely hope what I am going to write now does not come across in any way presumptuous!
Over my years here many of you have been very generous and given me “thank you” gifts both at the end of an academic year and at Christmas time. Every single one has been so much appreciated. It has struck me that some of you may (and here comes the presumptuous bit!) be thinking of a retirement gift.
Firstly this is not necessary at all – my “gift” over the years has been the very fact of being Head of this brilliant school - and secondly if you really do want to do anything then please could I make a request?
Instead of buying me anything please could you make a donation to the Make-A-Wish Foundation?
The work they do with seriously and terminally ill children is amazing to witness (I have seen it in person during our trips to Disney – the look on the children’s -and parents- faces is a joy to behold). It is of course not just Disney trips they do but also fulfill the wishes of children in many other ways too. It is a charity that I have supported.
I would much rather any money you would otherwise spend on me went to them.
https://www.make-a-wish.org.uk/donate/make-a-donation/
I have also asked the staff to do the same if they wish to give “me” something for being “The best boss ever”(!!) and instead of a gift to me make a donation to the charity.
Like I say I really hope that all hasn’t come across as too presumptuous!
I look forward to seeing many of you at the Fair this afternoon (I will be the one wearing the Sheriffs badge –thanks Jocasta!!) and at the Moana shows next week too.
Adios,
David Perrin