Welcome back from Mrs. Senior

Back to the grind, parents, children, teachers.It doesn't take long for us to settle back and feel as though we were never away.Last week saw a huge community effort with the annual fete. Both school and church working together. It created a great buzz and with the adrenalin flowing we set too and managed to make a phenomenal €35,000. It's hard to believe that such amounts of cash were wandering around the school grounds on Saturday. Whatever about the amount raised, the community spirit and camaraderie that was about surpassed any other. Everyone who took part, I believe, was proud to be there and many I have spoken too are keen to be back next year. What does that tell me? It tells me that this is something that works and works well.Projects which involve both the church and the school are to be encouraged and I hope Canon Appelbe and myself will continue to combine the two wherever possible.During the summer the outside of the school was painted and is now looking very well. The Crawford concourse was also painted. You may think it is rather bare but we await several new noticeboards before putting up any work. Unfortunately we have found that blutack has had a rather adverse affect on our walls and we want to avoid that in future.Planning permission has come through for our building work upstairs which will provide us with a new learning support and resource room. Unfortunately we await red tape before we can begin. It won't be long until you see the first signs of development.We welcome back all the staff who remain the same although their names may have changed. Ms. Storey became Mrs. Bourne whilst Ms. Levis became Mrs. Crammond. I wish them happiness with their new husbands.Till next time