Giraffes@taddy

It was wonderful to see our Year 5/6 buddy reading with the infants last week. The juniors read to the infants their chosen book, modelling their excellent reading skills. 

  To mark Remembrance day, we walked down to the cenotaph this morning, arriving just before 11am. The Leopards read out some poems whilst the Giraffes shared some prayers.  We then proceeded to hold our own 1 minute silence to pay our respects. 

  Giraffes were presented with a difficult dilemma when a mysterious message and  tempting treats arrived in the classroom. Offering us the generous gift, the message warned: Once the first morsel of food passes your lips, you will enter into a bargain with the Teller.  A good discussion followed and, although some people were still a bit unsure about it, we decided to eat the delicious treats. I t was only when we had eaten the treat that we found this poem. White roses we follow, towards Teller's Hollow Dead earth to a spring, the house of King A sip from the chalice, we enter his palace Break bread for the Keeper now we descend deeper Washed clean in his pool we fall under his rule Away from what is, we all are now his We were not sure what this  ominous and sinister message  meant. Then, Mrs Williams remembered seeing this poem in a book - Paradise Sands by Levi Pinfold. Maybe we will discover the meaning in there...

We used clay to make our mould of a Taotie mask. In the Shang dynasty, this would have been cast in bronze, but we are going to use plaster of Paris.