Meetings

After a busy weekend visiting my niece in Glasgow, making up flat pack furniture and doing my back in I was all ready to face the rigours of a new short week. The day began with a 2-hour meeting at Dunbar Grammar School. This was a very productive meeting. The support to pupils available in DGS must be some of the best in East Lothian if not Scotland. I was as ever very impressed with the commitment of the team at the meeting and went away feeling secure that the needs of students at DGS are well catered for. Back at school. Time to go through the newsletter to parents and add some final items. Plough through my in-tray, reply to 4 letters. I decide to check the quality of food on arrival to the school dining hall. This is an important issue for me at present as I consider the food at Innerwick to be of a too variable standard. I witness food being delivered in inappropriate containers, as do two Environmental Health Offices who are in the kitchen monitoring water quality. A brief discussion with the EHO ensues. I then work through lunch on Care Commission stuff prior to the Inspection next Monday. After lunch I have a meeting with my PT to discuss the Care Commission Inspection and we collate our evidence portfolio. At 2:45pm I am in class teaching P5/6/7 ICT. Today we are taking digital pictures and downloading them to I-Photo. The children are going to start taking the Cameras home tomorrow. This lesson is just a reminder of how to use the camera and how to compose a good photograph.

After the children go home I order novel sets for the middle of the school and run off material for the NQT on how to administer National Assessments. Just another quiet day at Innerwick. Off to SETT for a couple of days I will keep you posted on the events on my return.