Winter Warmer Lunch

On Wednesday, Mrs Hall cooked a very beautiful Winter Warmer Lunch for us. As part of the theme, the children were given the chance to wear their woolly hats whilst eating their Toad in the Hole and double choc chip cake with chocolate sauce.
The event was a huge success with lots of children opting for school lunch (including several of the staff).  The children thoroughly enjoyed the event, as we can see from the pictures below.

RE lesson with Rev. Andy

Today, Rev. Andy Wolton came into school to share some of his symbols and artefacts with KS1.  Aided by Mr Ledgerwood, the children learnt about the importance and relevance of different colours and symbols to Christians.

Snowball Fight!

There I was talking about our fabulous children, and  one snowball later, (thrown by Mrs Taylor I hasten to add) a torrent of snow was flying it's way across the main playground.
Following tradition, a snowball fight can only be instigated by our headteacher, after which, the children can freely hunt down their teachers and other adults and a good spirited snowball fight follows.

Children and adults alike dripped and squelched their way home after a fantastically enjoyable, snowy day.

Snowy Breaktime

This leads me up to today and playtime fun.  All the children and a selection of not-so reluctant teachers (including poor Mr Ledgerwood on his first morning at Kelsale) wrapped up in many layers, wellies and headed for the field.
Expectations for the quality of snowmen were high as various teams got started around the field.  Team-work, coordination and a huge amount of effort lead to some impressively tall snowmen.
What a lucky school we are to have such fabulous children.

Christmas Church Service

The next of my photo finds.  The Christmas church service.

The whole school plus an army of parents and other friends and relatives walked down to the church on a lovely Friday morning.
Rev. Andy Wolton welcomed us to the church and then we sang a selection of traditional Christmas as The Year 6 children retold the Christmas story.  It was a truly beautiful time.  Friends and families together, very festive children and very proud parents and teachers.  We all walked back to church with a warm, fuzzy feeling.

KS2 Christmas party

Having some fantastic shots of today's snow fun, I found several other photos on the cameras from the Christmas celebrations I had not shared with you.  So, sorry for the delay, but hopefully you can appreciate the photos as a reminder of a fabulous Christmas period.

We start with The KS2 party from the last week of term.

We begun the afternoon with a selection of party games: Carrying smarties to the hat...on a spoon...in your mouth...walking backwards.  Less like a Christmas party and more like an episode of the Krypton Factor, but the children cheered their team on and enjoyed the game.  This was followed by some balloon games and the snowman game.  This gives the children the opportunity to turn an adult into a snowman.  The team with the neatest snowman wins.  Great fun!

This was followed by a tea party and a good old sing and dance.  A fabulous afternoon.