A sunny afternoon, part 2

While the children play outside, the fountain in the quad sparkles in the afternoon sunshine.

The daffodils are finally out...

...and so is the flowering currant.

Spring has been a long time coming - but maybe it's here at last

A sunny afternoon

It's a sunny playtime.
"Come on" says Mr Kimberley. "Come and try out the new climbing frame"

Other teachers rush to join in. 

See, it's not just the children that like to have fun! 

Year 3 line up as the clouds roll in 

Year 4 line up too  

Behind year 4, you can see year 6 doing rounders in the other half of the playground

In The Cage, another year 6 group do hockey

As the others go in, Miss Agrawal's class stay outside: they're going to do drama on the Coop Deck 

Caterpillar cakes

Reception are doing a topic about minibeasts. 

Here they are making caterpillar cakes.

Decorating them takes concentration

They look lovely

Then they join all the cakes together to make a huge, class caterpillar on the carpet.
(Don't worry, the cakes were in their cake cases at all times!)

A Siver Medallist visits Jesson's

On Monday you saw the staff learning about "Be the Best You Can Be".

Today was the children's turn... 

Mel Clark, archer, and silver medallist in London 2012 came to tell  her story to the children

Everyone was amazed by her story. She has 17 world records, and was the first disabled archer to compete on the British team against able-bodied atheletes

Here's her silver medal from Londodn 2012

Mrs George models the British team kit

Everyone wanted to try out what it felt like to have a silver medal 

In the staffroom Mr Welsh gets an autograph

Afterwards, Mel anwered questions from the children (and staff - we all wanted to know things) how she battled life-threatening illness, and how she kept going even after being told she would never be able to do archery again. The Paralympic silver medal in London 2012 proved the doctors wrong!  

We loved the Olympic torch

The children are starting dream books, and working out how to achieve their own dreams

Mel is a truly inspirational character. We were very proud to have her at Jesson's, and we have all learnt so much from her.

She told us that she first got interested in archery when a teacher told her if she could hit a chocolate bar with an arrow she could have it!

Mrs Helen Goode

As you probably know by now, Mrs Goode, until recently a teacher at Jesson's, died over the holiday.

Here are four pictures which we've chosen to help us remember her.

She and husband Rob were married many years ago, but decided to have another wedding to renew their vows.


This birthday cake showed many things about Mrs Goode's personality - she loved her computer - and was often on Facebook. She loved travelling, and she played the violin with the staff choir at Jesson's 

Here she is with grandson, Zach

A holiday picture, showing her lovely smile. She could always see the funny side to things and was always laughing. People felt good to be around her. 
Goodbye Mrs Goode - we will never forget what you did for the children and staff at Jesson's

PS Parents - a special letter has gone home about arrangements for next Monday, which is the day of the funeral. Please read it - because we need your help to make sure staff can go and pay their respects. A copy of it will appear on the website tomorrow morning in case your child has inadvertently "lost" it!

Goals

A staff training day today.

Listening to the speaker

He was talking about helping to set goals and targets as part of a project called
"Be the Best You Can Be"

We then practised giving each other constructive feedback!

It was a bit daunting but lots of fun

It's hard to achieve when everyone is watching! 

The afternoon was about PE.

After a quick warm up, the staff brushed up their hockey skills 

Go, Mr Kimberley! A game called "race the hockey ball" was very popular.

Some of the staff were very competitive!

(Most of them, actually!)

Mr Shackleton demonstrates the next steps

If the teachers look tired tomorrow, you'll know why!

Tie dye - the results

Some lovely results from Wednesday's Craft Cafe and the tie-dying sessions

School tomorrow (Monday) for the staff, but the pupils start on Tuesday