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Date Posted: 12:59:28 03/10/10 Wed
Author: Gilly
Subject: Re: Help for a local school
In reply to: Gilly 's message, "Help for a local school" on 13:46:52 03/09/10 Tue

Thank you so much. My cousins who went there have also voted having received emails from me asking them to. We are so fortunate in the village where I live as the school was "given" a playing field (not a very big one but then it's not a very big school)by a local farmer, who fenced it in with 10ft security fencing and a padlocked gate for agricultural vehicles, he holds one key and the school holds the other and they only pay a peppercorn rent for it. The farmer has kept the ownership of the field so that the local authorities can't turn around and sell off the field as building land. The children have an area for sports and an area where the farmer dug out a pond, which has since been lined with a butyl liner and planted up around the edges and they have 2 areas that the children dug out themselves and then some dads put in the edging so that they have 2 little allotments and the area inside the school wall where there are actually some strips along the walls that have been cleared for planting are filled with fruit and veg and the children eat that aong with locally produced meat etc at lunchtime. There are more children stay at school for lunch than go home, that's for sure, but everyting is cooked on the premises and the cook and headmistress decide between them what the next week's menus will be. The childre are also allowed to have cooking lessons from the cook in small groups in the afternoons nad make little biscuits and flapjacks and the such, especially if there is a fund raising event coming up. It's a fabulous little school altogether. Old fashioned as well, as the children are expected to stand and say goodmorning to the teacher when she enters the classroom, or if visitors go to the school they are expected to stand and say goodmorning. Not many schools still do that.

Gilly

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Replies:

Re: Help for a local school -- Ani, 01:16:35 03/11/10 Thu
- Re: Help for a local school -- Gilly, 11:12:35 03/11/10 Thu
  - Re: Help for a local school -- Margaret/U.S.A., 12:52:03 03/11/10 Thu