Thank you, Pat

For twenty-eight years she has worked for St James's School. Today she retires.

She has run breakfast club and after school club, and holiday club. She has been a teaching assistant for special needs children, and served as a school governor. 

 

She has opened the school in the morning and closed it at night. She has come out in the middle of the night when the burglar alarm has sounded, and she has known generations of St James's children. 

 

She is now working with the children of some of the first children she worked with.

 

She has been a constant, loving, devoted presence in our school. 

 

As she embarks upon a well-deserved retirement we recall the words of the parable in Matthew 25, 'well done, good and faithful servant' and say: 'well done, good and faithful Pat.'

 

We shall miss you.