Harvest Festival
For 'Harvest Festival' this year, the school had a focus of 'Child.org', an organisation that dedicated 'to one thing and one thing only: building a world where every child has an equal opportunity'. Each class were given a different focus that linked to this theme. This is what happened:
Reception performed for the first time in front of the whole school and their families too! They sang a harvest festival song which highlighted the most important things that crops need to grow. The children had been learning how important the growth of crops is for people around the world to enable them to have food. It can be very scary performing infront of so many people, but with their wonderful headbands that they had made and their beautiful singing voices, they all did a superb job!
Year 1 performed a poem they highlighted the harrowing lives that some children around the world lead and how 'child.org' provided that much needed help. The poem was performed to creatively and with real enthusiasm. It went as follows:
The teacher said where is that lion I can hear?
And all of us children looked round,
The growling and groaning was just like a lion,
But lion, he could not be found,
But lion, he could not be found,
The noise was our tummies! So noisy,
We couldn't focus on our sums.
Our reading and writing were harder to learn,
With empty feelings in our tums,
With empty feelings in our tums.
Then Child.org gave us some breakfast to eat,
Some rice, and fish and yams,
Now I'm full and ready to use my brain power,
The words I couldn’t read, now I can,
The words I couldn't read, now I can.
Now there's no lion heard in our classroom,
And I am learning much more, I can see,
I’m going to do well at school and grow up,
To be whatever I want to be.
Year 2 relived what it would be like to live on just £1.60 per day. During a tri pto the local co-op, the children experienced first-hand what it would be like to survive on that amount of money alone. They had an insight into what amount of food they would be to purchase. They shared their experience with us and opened our eyes up to what life could be like it that was all the money you had for a whole family! A very inspirational performance.