I am once again pleased to provide the following report of the school and its events from April 2007 to now.  The school sends news every month to the Parish Magazine and this is a good source as is the school’s website.
•    The pupil roll has fallen, as have those of all other local primary schools within the area and we are presently a school of 77 pupils.  We are still organised in four classes. The Reception class has only 9 pupils and this is providing an excellent start to school for these pupils.  Maintaining four classes, if numbers remain below 80 will not be possible financially from September 2009.  This has been a threat for several years but every term new pupils join us and the threat has been removed.
•    The children’s centre opened in January and provides the school community with extended services.  The official opening will be on Friday 25th April.  The community is welcome to visit at anytime during the day.  The school’s Breakfast Club is now managed at the Children’s Centre by Litcham Childcare, [the former Parish Playgroup] which is also providing After School Care and a Holiday Play Scheme. The later ran very successfully during the spring half term and again during the Easter holiday.  The schools’ planned extensions were completed just before Christmas.   We now have a much needed separate staffroom, an enlarged head’s room, a school office with an improved reception area and an enlarged library.  The Friends were successful in gaining a grant of £10,000 for us to furnish the library appropriately.  Watch out for the opening of all our ‘bits’, which will include a new shed to store Forest Schools’ equipment and our gardening tools.  The children’s centres’ teaching kitchen is an excellent resource and is now regularly used by pupils at the school.  The children’s centre also has a consultation room which the school makes good use of.  The school and the children’s centre have plans to work together more closely in the future for the benefit of the school and the wider community.  The school’s governing body are the children’s centres’ Lead Partners.
•    Farewells have been said to Miss. Alana Davies, our Class 1 teacher who left us to be closer to her fiancé. Mrs. Wendy Surr who worked with us as a teaching assistant and to Mr. Gary Fulcher who worked as our caretaker.
•    Welcomes; A new Reception teacher was appointed for September 2007, Miss. Zammit-Haber and Mr. Stephen Glover was appointed as the new caretaker.  Mrs. Sharon Chandler was appointed to deal with dinner monies.
•    The budget has allowed us to continue employing a Games Instructor and our Music Specialist, who can also teach French, to work for a day each enabling assessment, planning and preparation time for our class teachers and our classes some specialist teaching.  The school also continues to provide the opportunity for its pupils to learn the recorder, violin, keyboard and guitar.
•    Events; Every term now for one day we collect clothes for recycling.  Years 5 & 6 have taken part in an Energy Busters programme in a bid to lower the school’s electricity bill, as well as learn about all forms of energy. The pupils rose to the challenge of raising a £100 to gain a further £200 from Norfolk County Council to install energy cost cutting controls by holding a Green Day.  Class 1 pupils are presently taking part in a six week Forest Schools’ programme at Houghton Hall.  We are continuing with a Road Safety programme for pupils in Reception and Year 1 and offer cycling proficiency to pupils in Year 6.  Our Year 6 had a residential trip to Wells Field Study Centre last June.  Litcham High School funded, Launchpad, a very exciting programme, which links design technology and science, in the building and launching of rockets for pupils in Class 4. The High School Science status funding also allowed us to hire a coach to take Class 3 to the Power Station in King’s Lynn.  
•    We always support several charities during the year, this year sending Christmas parcels to soldiers in Afghanistan, making a sugar collection for the Homeless and a Christmas card collection for the Dogs Trust.  We raised funds for the Great Ormond Street Hospital by taking part in their Peter Pan Week, attempting to enter the World Guinness Record Book, by joining in with the reading of a poem, at a particular time with other pupils across the nation.
•    The Garlic Theatre presented, ‘The Magnificent Flying Machine’ at Christmas and the whole school also enjoyed a presentation about litter. 5 members from Class 4 attended the first county Energy Busters’ conference and 2 pupils attended a Food conference.  The school offers a range of clubs during the year, sporting and arts ones and now have a gardening club. The Year 5/6 football team is once again having a very successful season.  14 pupils this year enjoyed a 3 week trampoline course and we hope to take part in cluster tag rugby and golf as well as rounders and cricket.