Junior Dragon

One of the events that we have really missed this term was our annual Junior Dragon Awards Evening. 

This evening of razzle dazzle, allows a wider audience to join in our celebration of individual and collaborative accomplishments from across Key Stage 2. As students from Year 4 - Year 6 show off some of their skills and achievements from a year's worth of work, we begin to think about the next stage of the journey.

So we don't disappoint, we are rescheduling the celebration to a slightly adapted event in Term 1 of next year, but in the meantime we just want to say an enormous well done to all of those Dragoneers who pushed themselves out of their comfort zone. Whether they were cycling through puddles, creating artwork, having their first experience of camping, raising resources for a community project, swim training, learning how to knit, perfecting their martial arts, each and every one of them were demonstrating the importance of going 'above and beyond'. 

In this vein a special mention needs to go to Shiven Gohil:

For the last few years Shiven has been baking away and bring all kinds of yummy baked goods to school. He has become rather famous for his brownies and no class expedition trip would have been the same without them. This year he took his baking to a whole new level and compiled a recipe book filled with all his favourite ones. He sold these books and the proceeds of a whopping Tsh1.3 million was donated to our class community Project Maisha Matters. This has helped buy many tins of formula and buckets of peanut butter which are much needed to support families with malnourished children.

A sweet ending to Year 6…

We simply could not let the year end without one more of Shiven’s indulgent and decadent brownies. I could think of a million more adjectives to describe these gooey, chocolate master pieces but I would be here forever! They are simply the BEST brownies I have ever tasted.

So in a cunning plan to savour them just one more, I collected a secret stash to be part of the Year 6 graduation present. In the picture below you see Shiven’s hard work being loaded in the back on my car ready to be shipped and packaged into the surprise gift for the Year 6. We were treated not only to a brownie but a vanilla cupcake with raspberry frosting too.

I want to thank Shiven for bringing such joy to our lips and probably my hips  for the last 3 years. He has filled our class and belly with all kinds of yumminess, from his cookies to his cakes and I could not be more proud of the money your baking raised for Maisha Matters. Keep doing what you doing Shiven and touching the lives of so many with your sweet treats.

You are an inspiration to us all.

Your brownies will be sorely missed in primary :(