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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Chellaston Residents' Association AGM

The AGM for 2007 will be held on Monday 26th March at 7.45pm in the Community Centre. This will be followed by a forum where there will be a presentation of the new Derby hospital, a discussion on the admissions policy of Chellaston School and an open forum to round off the evening. The agenda can be viewed here.

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Using technology to communicate

Last posting today... just to say that I'm amazed at how many parents are using email to get in touch with us these days. I always try and acknowledge emails sent to the school admin or info accounts, so that you know that they've been read/actioned. If you've got something urgent to say or need an answer on, if you don't get a response within 24 hours, please get in touch, as it may mean that I'm out of the office!
Also, the text messaging service GroupCall continues to be used successfully to inform you of important notices, particularly helpful when we have to cancel a club at short notice. For it be to successful though, we need your up-to-date mobile number. Please remember to let me know if you change your mobile number.

School Website

The school website is under reconstruction and we'd like to thank you all for bearing with us during the transfer from 'old' to 'new'. I hope you'll be pleased with the new design, as our ICT Technican, Edward Proudler, has been working hard on this for some time now. Information is being migrated and some of the exiting pages will need updating, but in the meantime, if there's anything that you'd like us to include, please let us know - either here or by emailing me at admin@cjs.derby.sch.uk, and we'll do our best to include it.

Aladdin Junior

I can't believe it's that time of the year again - it only seems five minutes ago that the children were putting on Guys and Dolls - and what a show that was! This year Miss Fogg is busy directing Disney's Aladdin Jr. with performances for parents on 27th & 28th March. As I've only been involved on the administration side of things, I can't wait to come along and watch the performances. The tickets have been allocated and as far as I'm aware, everyone who's asked for extra tickets should have now received them. Please let me know if you haven't received all the tickets you wanted.