In like a Lion

March arrived this week and today we have another light sprinkling of snow; there are some decidedly fed up lambs in the fields around. Much is happening in the school at the moment - we have lost one pupil with a family move to Grasmere and gained one so our numbers stay constant. We are getting ready for World Book day on Thursday and red Nose day the Friday of the following week. Our most exciting news is that the School has won an Excellence in ICT award for the best Cumbrian school website. Despite the huge amount of time the website takes up it is an essential part of our work and fulfills three main aims:

• It allows us to display and celebrate the work our children produce
• It allows us to share the work and life of the school with our parents and allows them to see more of what goes on.
• It acts as a showcase for future parents who may be choosing a school for their children. Our web statistics show that the site is being looked at all over the world and all over Britain. More often than not when parents enquire about places for their child, they have already done their 'homework' and looked at the school site.

The school is in a very positive frame of mind and all are working hard. A boy in Y1 brought me his writing book yesterday showing the improvement since September, it was breath taking and moved from two indecipherable squiggles to half a page of writing that could easily be read - those are the great moments!