A Week of Events - Scotland Tomorrow

It was a big week of events at the school - this, the last week before Easter Holiday. Things started off with the South American Showcase on Wednesday. For the past two months, the school has been studying SA and each of the classes presented their findings. There was dancing, singing, presenting of reports and viewing of artistic endeavors. Rose and Xyla's class presented some South American pots they drew. Mostly they studied South America through a Paddington Bear lens and while I know they learned a lot about making "Please look after this..." signs and marmalade, I'm not sure how much they learned about Darkest Peru.

The following day was the Easter service. As mentioned in the iWeb weeks, St. Anne's Fulshaw is a Church of England school, despite it being public. Anyway, the whole of the Easter story was presented and the highlight was a young girl who enthusiastically yelled "Crucify Him!" She was to do this in concert with her classmates, but so exciting was the prospect of calling for someone's crucifixion she just couldn't contain herself. Rose was a disciple on the day and did a lot of walking up and down the isle as Jesus was drug from one end of the church to the other. Xyla was an angel and she also did a lot of walking and spreading smiles about the place. Xyla is in the photo at right, but since it wasn't really a photo-friendly environment, this is all I could get.

Last night was the music concert. All of the students who are involved in music in the school (a pay as you go type thing) played something. There was singing, violining, brass banding, guitaring, fluting and pianoing. Xyla was involved in the pianoing and provided the oom-pa part of a duet with the music teacher. She enjoyed herself and didn't even need to think twice when asked if she wanted to be involved in the evening. I shot a small movie. I'll try to figure out how to post it.

Finally - the wedding party. This was today and while I didn't attend as I did in the case of the other three events, Rose and Xyla were happy to fill me in when they got home. One game they played involved piggy-back riding. A younger student got on the back of an older student. Only one injury was reported. There was not a mock wedding ceremony and I'm thankful for that.

We leave for Scotland tomorrow and will spend the first evening in Kirkcudbright, a small ancient town in SW Scotland. From there we spend two nights at Loch Lomond, a night in Oban and then a week in Glasgow where Andrea will be meeting with some folks and giving a talk or two.

Reports when we can.