GAMES CLUB AND SUCCULENTS

Each Friday at lunch time, there is technology-free time for students to join in a range of games and activities.

This extremely popular club engages students in many games of strategy such as Chess, Connect 4, Battleship, Blockus and more. These help students to think outside the square.The huge jig-saw puzzles challenge groups of students over many weeks and create an enormous sense of achievement when completed. Twister has them moving in different directions and Lego encourages the budding engineers . It is a great pleasure to watch the students interacting with each other, negotiating and building their communication skills.

Everyone is welcome and the games are warmly embraced by students who revel in time away from their devices.

Dawn Morrissey and Jess Kaur help me in setting up and packing away the equipment as well as joining in some of the games.

Succulents to Grace the School

A generous mother of a student gifted the school with a tray of exquisite succulents.

Her aim was to support students who would gain confidence and a real sense of achievement in planting them around the school.

The succulents are perfect for our dry environment and truly beautify the garden beds.   

They nourish the students’ horticultural desires, and those planting them have commented that it is also a very calming exercise.

Veronica Brunton