I went to the Year 6 leavers disco tonight. I've never been before, but I felt a real affection for this year's Year 6's, so I wanted to show my face there. A lot of them have been involved in music and particulary this year's lot were really good at and enthusiastic about music. It was a strange experience seeing them all dolled up and dressed up. Some of them looked like women in girl's bodies, wearing the latest fashions, coiffed hair, glamorous. Some of them looked like beautiful little girls and boys- I thought all of them looked lovely but I prefer it when they dress their age. Childhood seems all so precious now, it seems so much shorter and I just wish they could be 'younger' for longer if you know what I mean?! Anyway, I felt quite sad to be seeing them go and seeing them all so excited and being natural made me feel sorry for all the times I have been horrible to them (you know, telling them off and getting cross)- they are only little kids. (I know it has to be done though).
The PTA had made it really lovely for them. They were given special invitations. As they came in, there were 2 inflatable palm trees with a ' _____(name of school) star of the year' and one of the parents taking digital pictures of them in their outfits'. Once all were taken, the parent went off to the local Tescos photobooth to develop them and then at the end of the evening they were all given a photo in a clipframe (I helped take off all the clips). The hall was decorated nicely. Class photos from the start of their school journey were up (Including a hilarious one with my class and me in Year 5, with me wearing a very short dress-oops!)
They then had a photo board where they had been asked to bring in baby and toddler photos of themselves so there was a 'Guess who' competition! They were given Glow-sticks, drinks with fancy cocktail stirrers and umbrellas were served. There were lots of snacks and a chocolate fountain, plus a DJ, lights, smoke machine etc It was a really nice event and I think it's lovely that the PTA put such a lovely effort into making it memorable for them.
I seem to be wearing polka-dots again. This was another charity-shop lucky Primark find, last summer. I like the 50's feel of it (sorry Rach, I will definitely look out for one for you, what size and style?! though it does need a top underneath. Worn with Cherry earrings (school fete), Cherry necklace (Peacocks) and Red or dead shoes.
I managed to borrow the class camera to take these under the genuine premise of having to upload (we've lost the camera lead) all the photos from the last term using my card-reader before the cameras have to be returned tomorrrow, so I sneaked one or two shots!
These are my lovely flowers gifted to me by the Headmistress after the school concert.
This afternoon we had the school talent show which was brilliant! Some children sang some great songs (Adele, Don Moen, Justin Bieber), a great Dhol drummer, a recorder player, a hilarious but genius but slightly cringy Michael Jackson Billy Jean dancer (He kept grabbing his bits!), a great Dance routine from about 9 boys in my class- they were really impressive. A poetry reading. I am so pleased about the girl that won- she's often had a rough time of it in terms of relationships with other children, but she's really shone this year with some things- she's been in choir and drumming, but her singing was obviously something she has worked on herself at home. I managed to keep my class calm apart from that by getting them to fill out their self-assessment grids for French for the year (they seemed very confident) and by getting them to read French kids books with their partners. One other teacher came in and thought me cruel for making them work, but I do think they need to be kept at it till the last day or they get (have already got) all bolshy and they seemed to enjoy reading the French books and feel pleased with themselves over the assessment grid and what they realised they'd learnt. We'll watch a DVD tomorrow afternoon!
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