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Thursday 1^st April 2010

For our final day, we all visited Lions Bay Community School – Kindergarten to Grade 3 – a total of 55 students! Also on site was a parent run pre-school which currently has 12 under 5’s. The setting is idyllic, up a mountain, in a forest (which forms the extended play area – and today, the location for the Easter egg hunt).

We observed singing, maths, spellings, drawing, ‘dream time’ and of course, the Easter egg hunt. We saw Kindergarten working alongside Grade 3 in group work and how well they worked together to problem solve and discuss ways of estimation the number of jellybeans in a jar! Healthy eating was very well promoted – at Recess (Break) they had carrot and cucumber – most of the muffins were left, and they continued to nibble carrot and cucumber through the morning. Lunch was chicken goujons and more fresh veg. – tomatoes, celery, carrots, and a milk drink.

It was a delightful, gentle, creative and co-operative environment and a lovely way to end our visits. We brought away some of their drawings and I have a sample of their writing for my A level students to peruse.

So, observations over, we headed back to the city, via Horseshoe bay, where we stopped for lunch. A and I then went to buy books to bring back into school from a discount bookshop (fingers crossed for the weigh in at the airport tomorrow). Others went to the beautiful Stanley Park, others souvenir hunting. Having had some sunshine yesterday, we have had rain today, becoming increasingly persistent and heavy. Most of us are going up to the Vancouver observation deck anyway, hoping to get at least some sense of the potential views of the surrounding mountains, bay and beyond – though we may just be enveloped in low cloud.

As I write, the rain has turned to hail!! I kid you not, this is no April’s fool!

So, our visit is coming to an end – a fantastic experience and lots of thoughts and ideas to bring back to Voyager, and our cluster Primary schools.

I will be putting photos and thoughts up on the plasma screens, and I know L and D have lots of ideas about sharing the information and ideas we have with everyone.

S