Governors day at St James

It was the Governors morning at St James's School today, the day each term when governors tour the school and sit in on as many classes as they can, before meeting together for a feedback session with the head.

We started off at the Alexis Street site (above) with the older children who were all doing Maths, using the new Singapore Maths that the school has recently gone over to using. Behaviour was excellent, there was some really good teaching going on, and an amazing amount of Maths being learnt, particularly long division which the children were admirably proficient in.

After break it was time to see what the younger children were up to at Old Jamaica Rd. In the case of the nursery the answer to this was: mud pies. Further up the school it was literacy hour and there was some great work going on here based on the theme of dinosaurs, using lots of different words to describe an imaginary naughty dinosaur who had visited the school.

Another class were putting sentences together with words ending in cious. It was impressive seeing our infants happilly fielding such words as atrocious, ferocious, delicious, and gracious.

All in all a really good morning, that left us once again with a deep sense of thanksgiving for our deeply committed and very able teaching staff. It was really quite inspiring.