Giraffes@taddy

 Giraffes were excited to attend Buxton’s Climate Clever Schools Student Conference at The Octagon, Buxton. There were many fun activities about nature, wildlife, recycling, energy, gardening, plastic  and travel, giving them an enjoyable, positive experience focused on looking  after our planet. There was also a Clothes and Accessories swap, which some of the children got involved with. Litter workshop  The human impact of litter on living things  Recycling  Moors for the future Bogtastic Renewable energy Biodiversity - food chains Mixing compost - deciding what proportion of soil improver, leaf mould, grit sand and top soil to include in the mix. Serpentine Community garden  Testing our soil mixes -  some of our farmers made the best mix! 

Delicious hot chocolate round the fire warmed us up after we spent time with friends enjoying the snow.   

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...