We can't espresso how delatted we are with our brewtiful new coffee machine. Thank you so much FOSS and our lovely parents! It is proving so, so popular in our staffroom and is making break times all the more cheery. Who needs the cup that cheers when you can have a mug of FOSS coffee? It has bean a real pleasure accepting this gift. Thank you

What a joy it is to be able to run gardening club this term. Every Wednesday as midday approaches I gaze at the sky, look at my BBC weather app and cross all my fingers that St Margarets will stay dry for just a while during the couple of hours when the children have their lunch break. I need it to stay dry at a different time every week so I can work with as many bubbles as possible over this strange term and I'm beyond impressed that the children and teachers know which bit of the playground they are allowed in at what time and with whom. All I need to do is turn up, set myself up with my big orange gardening bag and find my bubbles, or rather, my bubbles find me.

Our aim this term is to tidy up the planters dividing the playground, grow as wide a variety of plants as possible and look forward to spring when our bulbs will flower, our broad beans and peas will pop up and the marigolds, sweet peas and poppies we've sown will show promise for a flowery summer. We even managed to track down and dig up last spring's potatoes to take home home for tea while this week we're planting the garlic and the last batch of Meteor peas. Thanks to all the children who, despite the odds, have shown an amazing "can do" attitude and kept our playground growing this term. Gardening Club runs for a couple more weeks and then resumes in February.