St Margaret's - Karaoke and Quiz Night

Although I unfortunately cannot be there, due to been away at a training course, tomorrow evening (Friday), the Friends of St Margaret's School are hosting a karaoke and quiz night in aid of Children in Need.

The event runs from 7.30 until 10.30pm at the school on Glossop Road, and tickets are £5 each.

You can get more information from any of the 'Friends' or by contacting the school on 01457 855818

St Margaret’s School Fair

This Saturday (2nd July) from 10.00am until 2.00pm at St Margaret’s School sees this years Summer Fair.
There will be a whole range of activities taking place including a bouncy castle, bottle tombola, chuck a wellie, coconut shy, refreshments and much much more.
In addition alongside the summer fair will be a car boot sale, with spaces available at £5.00 if pre booked and £7.00 on the day contact 01457 857729 to book your spot.

Well Dressing 2009

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Saturday saw the service of blessing for this year's well dressing.

The service which took place at the Immaculate Conception Church in New York, Charlesworth was first started four years ago and features of a main display complete by members of the parish, and two smaller displays completed by Children at St Margarets along with members of the parish.

The main display (pictured above) is of St Paul with this theme been chosen to celebrate the end of the year of St Paul.

Further photo's of the event are available for viewing at http://www.flickr.com/anthonymck

St Margaret's 40th Anniversary

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As noted earlier on the 24th June a celebration for the 40th Anniversary of the opening of St Margaret's School took place.

The Bishop of Nottingham the Right Reverend Malcolm McMahon was the guest of honour and a number of former teachers including former head's Sister Anita, Simon Groarke and Clare Sierotko were also in attendance.

A photo display of photos from other the years was put together and it was quite interesting to see how people have changed on some of the photo's from my own year.

It was a great afternoon thanks to the efforts of the many people that had put it together including the production of a special cake (picture above) which included the school badge and had been produced by one of the parents.

Further photo's from the celebration along with some photo's of the display are available at http://www.flickr.com/anthonymck

St Margaret’s – Head teacher Search

Finger’s crossed for St Margaret’s School this week, where the deadline for applications for a new head teacher passed on Monday (2nd February).

Hopefully a number of applications will have been received for the post, with interviews planned for within the next few weeks.

Nursery Nurse / Teaching Assistant Vacancy at St Margarets

St Margaret’s Catholic School are wanting to appoint a suitably qualified person (NNEB or equivalent) to run the small nursery each morning and then work as a Teaching Assistant in the KS1 class for 4 afternoons per week.

The post may be offered as one full time or separate morning and afternoon posts.

Further details of the job are available from the school (telephone 01457 855818) or online under the jobs section of the County Council website at www.jobs.derbyshire.gov.uk

The closing date for application Sunday 2nd November 2008.

St Margaret's Governor's

Last Wednesday evening saw a meeting of the full Governors at St Margaret's School, amongst the items for discussion were the budget (which looks reasonable good this year), issues around the state of repair for the fence between the school and the railway and the possible dangers to children this may mean along with the main topic of discussion which was around the recruitment process for a new head following Simon's recent departure.

Unfortunately despite the advertising process for the vacancy, at this time we've yet to find a suitable candidate to carry on the good work and high standards been achieved during Simon time.

So for the time been the school will be in the good hands of acting head Ben Steane who has been a member of the management team during Simon's headship and is well placed to take the school through any challenges and opportunities that will come up until the issue of the head teacher is looked at again.

Well Dressing

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Last Saturday saw the well dressing take place at the Immaculate Conception Church on the border of Charlesworth and Broadbottom.

As well as the main well dressing board there was also a well dressing board that had been done by Children of St Margaret’s School.



The well dressing boards will be available for viewing until this weekend, and were seen at the 'blessing' service on Saturday by the Mayors of both High Peak and Tameside.

New York Well dressing

As in New York, Charlesworth of course, where the Church of the Immaculate Conception will holding there well dressing this Saturday afternoon from 3.00pm.

In addition to the well dressing panel from the Church, there will also be a well dressing panel that has been done by the children of St Margaret's school.

School governors

Being a School governor at St Margaret's was the theme of the week last week with a meeting of the buildings and safety committee on Tuesday night and a meeting of the full governors on Wednesday.

Further good news was reported following the recent OFSTED inspection with a strong performance in the SAT's and a very good report back from the Church 'OFSTED' inspectors.

Further concerns were raised with regards to the fence that separates the school from the railway, with Network Rail seeming to be reluctant to do the necessary work to bring it up to scratch despite various letters been sent by the school to both Network Rail and a number of other bodies of hopeful influence.

OFSTED

Early feedback (according to this week’s newsletter) following last week OFSTED inspection at St Margaret’s appears to indicate a good outcome, congratulations to Simon, the staff and all others involved.

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Good luck to the staff, parents and children of St Margaret’s School who have the OFSTED inspectors in this week.