Harvest Festival

Wow, two posts in one day! Thought I'd do a quick one before I forgot. We're not long in from the school harvest festival at the church (no such thing as separation of church and state around here!). It was a little chaotic as the whole school was performing - suppose not that many as there are only about 105 in the entire school. But then lots of parents, siblings, grandparents, pushchairs and village OAPs where also shoehorned into the church.

Toby was very excited to see Beth sat there right in the middle and kept choosing the quietest times to shout out "there's my Beth!" just in case I was in any doubt she was there. Her class performed a rendition of The Little Red Hen using actions and words. It was very good though a few of them got stage fright. The year 1/2 class sang a farm animal song and wore animal masks (that we just must replicate "right now"). The 3/4 class also sang a harvest song and the year 5/6 class spoke about farming in the village (mainly apples) then did a prayer.

We were also asked to join in some songs but Toby was having none of it and kept his hand over my mouth every time I tried to sing (probably not a bad thing as my singing is more likely to anger the gods rather than please!). It was a very relaxed afternoon and pretty enjoyable - an outcome directly related to Toby's behaviour (very good) rather than anything else. :)