Apart from a broken pen, empty crisp packet and other assorted "stuff", you might find:-
The lastest Buzz (Number 11)
Year 4 - termly topics
Opus Concert Club - all pupils
Hockey Club - Year 6
International Week - food allergies letter - all pupils
Aztecs Workshops - Year 6
UNICEF's Day for Change (next Friday) - letter to all pupils
Saisnbury'sActive Kids 2006 - letter to all parents
That's about it for the week. Have a great weekend everyone.
Friday, January 27, 2006
Feedback
Welcome
Thank you to everyone who has responded to the questionnaire sent out regarding the use of technology to improve home-school communication. Quite a few parents have had a chance to look at the blog as a result of the questionnaire, so if this is one of your first visits - welcome!
Thank you to everyone who has responded to the questionnaire sent out regarding the use of technology to improve home-school communication. Quite a few parents have had a chance to look at the blog as a result of the questionnaire, so if this is one of your first visits - welcome!
Monday, January 23, 2006
Jack and the Beanstalk
Can I just say that those of us who went to see Jack and the Beanstalk on Saturday afternoon enjoyed it thoroughly. Chellaston Players put on a great show....I especially liked Sophie's dad as Dame Trott!
The children were a credit to the school and were extremely well behaved.
(oh no they weren't!)
MF
The children were a credit to the school and were extremely well behaved.
(oh no they weren't!)
MF
Sunday, January 22, 2006
Message Board
I have been asked whether it would be possible to set up a message board where parents can post comments on a particular topic. This is an experimental message board and is on the subject of School Dinners. To take part, please follow the link on the left of this page. Please let me know if there are any other subjects that you would like a message board to discuss.
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Parents' Questionnaire
My questionnaire is now accessible via the school website http://www.cjs.derby.sch.uk/questionnaire.doc and can be emailed back to me at admin@cjs.derby.sch.uk. Although it is addressed to CJS parents, I am also interested in other people's opinions too, so if anyone wishes to complete the questionnaire, please do so. Many thanks to those of you who have already completed the paper version.
Miss Joynes and I visited the BETT exhibition at Olympia last week and were amazed at some of the ideas being exhibited. We particularly liked the Qwizdom interactive remote response system (http://www.qwizdom.co.uk/) and have arranged for a demonstration to teaching staff. Some of the ideas seem so far advanced you wonder if they will ever find a place in school, yet it was just two years ago that I first saw the GroupCall SMS text messaging service for parents being exhibited at BETT, and now we have been trialling the system at CJS for the past three months to great effect. In fact, of all the technological changes we have introduced, this seems to be the one that has attracted the most positive feedback from parents. I'm looking forward to seeing if the questionnaire backs up my thoughts on this!
Miss Joynes and I visited the BETT exhibition at Olympia last week and were amazed at some of the ideas being exhibited. We particularly liked the Qwizdom interactive remote response system (http://www.qwizdom.co.uk/) and have arranged for a demonstration to teaching staff. Some of the ideas seem so far advanced you wonder if they will ever find a place in school, yet it was just two years ago that I first saw the GroupCall SMS text messaging service for parents being exhibited at BETT, and now we have been trialling the system at CJS for the past three months to great effect. In fact, of all the technological changes we have introduced, this seems to be the one that has attracted the most positive feedback from parents. I'm looking forward to seeing if the questionnaire backs up my thoughts on this!
Friday, January 13, 2006
What you might...should...have received so far this year!
All parents - summer flowering bulbs letter & catalogue
All parents - KS2 Maths study materials
All parents - International Week letter
Year 3 - visits to Pizza Express (Food Technology)
Year 4 - proposed trip to Stratford
Year 4 - invitation to parents' lunches
Year 5 - Badminton Club
Years 5 & 6 - letter from the Modern Foreign Languages department of Chellaston School
All parents - KS2 Maths study materials
All parents - International Week letter
Year 3 - visits to Pizza Express (Food Technology)
Year 4 - proposed trip to Stratford
Year 4 - invitation to parents' lunches
Year 5 - Badminton Club
Years 5 & 6 - letter from the Modern Foreign Languages department of Chellaston School
Monday, January 09, 2006
Happy New Year!
Wishing everyone a very happy, healthy and peaceful New Year. Did you make any new year's resolutions? My only one is to make sure I graduate this year and with three more modules to complete before 22nd May, I need to stay focused so that I will hopefully reach my goal (albeit 20+ years later than my peers!)
I am about to start collecting data for my research project, which means producing a questionnaire that will attempt to gain as many parents' views as possible on all the different technological media we have developed for improving home-school communication - email, the school website, this weblog and our SMS text messaging service. It is your views that really matter and this feedback will enable us to make changes/improvements in how we communicate. Thanks in advance for all your help so far.
I am about to start collecting data for my research project, which means producing a questionnaire that will attempt to gain as many parents' views as possible on all the different technological media we have developed for improving home-school communication - email, the school website, this weblog and our SMS text messaging service. It is your views that really matter and this feedback will enable us to make changes/improvements in how we communicate. Thanks in advance for all your help so far.
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