The day started at 8.00am without a pair of gloves on Horns Lane with a sheep (which I have now been told is something called a tup) slipping around the road on the ice having escaped from a field. Obviously, it was my first important job of the day to get the sheep off the road and back into the first field opening I could find before the morning traffic began. Just to inform you all, I am still trying to get the roads outside school gritted by the highways agency. Please do drive very slowly and carefully.
Last week, Mr Blair came to school with racing pigeons! Mr Blair, our chair of governors, also looks after racing pigeons in the school he works in. Our children enjoyed learning facts about racing pigeons before holding them and releasing them to fly back home…