Guy Making 2013

After a mammoth collection of old clothes from some of the children and Mrs Taylor, this afternoon KS2 took to the car park armed with straw (provided by Mr Watts), string, sellotape, scissors and a lot of imagination to prepare guys for this year's village Fireworks display.




The guys are being judged during assembly in the morning by members of the local council and, looking at the afternoon efforts, they have a very tough job.

Just a reminder: Lanterns are for sale after school tomorrow night or on the night (Saturday 2nd November) from the meeting room in the village.  Each lantern cost £2.

Our experience with African food

On Thursday 17th October,  Ms Angela Pearce  came in to the yr 5&6 class to show us, and let us taste,  some African foods. First we tried some hot foods including pap, which is a staple maize porridge,we also had a taste of sous,a tomato and onion sauce, and lots more. Tasting the sweet foods and fruit was most probably our favorite moment.

She also stayed in to tell us some facts and answer questions about Africa, we all learnt a lot about it.

Did you know?
. In Africa you need to have shutters, sheets or blinds on the outside of your house because snakes can easily come in.
. Usually in Africa you speak at least 2 languages but sometimes more.

In conclusion we all had a lot of  fun and we had an early dinner.

Harvest Festival

Today, Kelsale School held it's annual harvest festival.  Families donated fresh fruit, vegetables, canned goods and other lovely goodies.  Miss Dempsey and Mrs Brett spent yesterday afternoon putting together a lovely harvest table.  Each class had organised and rehearsed songs, information, poems and prayers to perform to our guests. All children gave their very best and  made everybody proud.




After school, volunteers stayed behind to pieces together food parcels which, come rain or shine, will be delivered to elderly members of the local community tomorrow morning.
Well done Kelsale!

More Maasai Warriors photos

Just received from Mrs Gill...
More Maasai photos and hopefully a video.

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Maasai Warriors.

We were so, so fortunate today to welcome The Maasai Warriors to Kelsale School.

The performance began with a welcoming prayer from the lead warrior, Richard.  The children and staff were transfixed from the beginning.
The troop then continued with a series of dances, chants, farming whistles, songs and audience participation by a number of children and adults

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The highlight of the performance had to be a jumping competition, used to demonstrate power and rank within the tribe.  The warriors pitted themselves against some children and Mrs Walker and Mrs Taylor. Needless to say, the Maasai Warriors came out on top.

The troop then spent some time in each of the classrooms with the children answering questions and discussing their work.  Four members of the troop ended up in Class 5 trying to locate the exact position of their homes in Kenya using Google maps!

The troop then shared lunch with KS1.

This was an absolutely fantastic experience for all children and staff.  The Warriors were both skilled and talented, but also kind and informative.  We all had a fabulous time and thank Mrs Taylor for inviting them to come into school.

A huge thank you to the Maasai Warriors for sharing their time and talents with us.  

(Hopefully, I will be adding a video soon...watch this space!)