John K Mitchell's Misc Blog

The school at which I am a governor (Peakirk-cum-Glinton C of E Primary School) has just had their Ofsted Inspection. To quote the report "This is a good school. The inspection agrees that this is an effective school which provides good value for money. There is accurate and honest self-evaluation, which provides the school with a good basis for further improvement. Improvement since the last inspection has been good and this is evident in the quality of the teaching and use of assessment information"...

Having read the report in full I personally feel that it's a very good report and this is down to the ex-head, the current acting head and all the staff in the school (both teaching and non-teaching).

Bill Hughes of Miller Homes has swept to success for the third year running in the National House Building Council’s (NHBC) ‘Pride in the Job’ contest 2005 - beating thousands of site managers across the UK to take once again take the “Supreme” title in the large builder category.

The site manager for the development that our house was on could certainly have learnt a few lessons from this chap. I lost count of the number of times that we had to chase for fixes to the smaller problems we had with our new house. Never mind that the stairs were built about 8 inches too far back that meant that the doorway to the utility area had to be moved, that in turn meant that the cupboards due to go into the utility room no longer fitted!

It's getting close for the annual New-Werri-Thorpe Gang Show which has been held every year since 1997. Each year it's been held at the college in Glinton and is always a sell-out.

The show is performed infront of averge audiences of 1,000 people each year spread over 4 perfomances and over the past 3 years that I've been going has always been great fun.

It's amazing the confidence that the cast members have (remember that the cast includes cubs and brownies who may only be 8 years old, right the way through scouts and guides to some of the leaders). The number of people of the stage at the finale has to be seen to be believed, and it's all put on with the main rehearsals starting in January each year, that about 3 months that the cast have to put together the show.