A Message from Mrs Buchanan

Thank you for your kind wishes and support from near and far. The emails, texts, facebook messages and chats from you all may seem like small gestures but the love and concern they are sent with really mean a lot to us. We have had our first full week back at school and yes it has been tiring but we have been together and enjoying each others company and healing together. We are lucky in Room 1 that we can still be in our classroom and it was our pleasure to loan our classroom to Room 9 and 10 who have to be in the hall and couldn't be in there yesterday while they had carpet laid. We have done some exciting and fun work this week using thinking keys and thinking smarts activities to do with fairy tales, learned how to read maps for orienteering and done some amazing paper mosaic/collage flowers. We have managed all this without running water to wash sticky hands or brushes and without needing any reading books or new art materials - which are all in our damaged room. A couple of times we have had to do turtles on the floor or get under our desks - it is a little bit scary but we know it has kept us safe before and will again. Today we will sing and celebrate all the things we have achieved at our team assembly and team singing. Stay in touch, keep caring and make sure the ones you love know you do. Kia kaha and love, Mrs B x