Open Afternoon

Dear all,

Thank you to everyone for making me and all the parents feel so welcome at yesterday's Open Day. As always, I really enjoyed the visit and I went home wearing a big smile. I visited a number of classes and I was impressed by the enthusiasm shown by pupils when they described what they were working on and what they done recently. I would also like to thank the pupil in Year 5 who taught me how to use the interactive white board. It was a pleasure to walk around and look at all the displays.

I would like to congratulate Year 6 on an awesome set of SATs results. Well done! Briliiant! With those science results I hope to see some of you fixing global warming, building space stations and solving Fermat's Last Theorem. But for now though, you must enjoy a well deserved summer break and I wish you all good luck at secondary school. Please keep in touch with JBS by visiting school events or creating a "Class of 2009" blog; some of you will go to different secondary schools but meeting up at JBS events would be a great way of catching up with each other, and I am sure the teachers would be interested to hear what you get up to!

The turn-out from parents was phenomenal! The school hall was packed for Miss Jennings' presentation. I hope all the parents were pleased by firstly, the SATs results and secondly, the way JBS is moving the curriculum forward. I loved the idea when she first told me about it and I hope the children do too. I particularly like the way JBS is a trail-blazer - delivering innovative work before the rest of the country!

Finally, a BIG thank you to all the teachers and support staff. It has been a pleasure watching and hearing about the fantastic job you do. I would like to express particular appreciation and gratitude to the staff moving on to pastures new and that they have fond memories of JBS.

Next year I hope I can visit JBS even more.

Alex Macneill