Girl Lacer had her class assembly today, she was a fish, a fish with a line and she said it so well, confidently (that’s two years worth of dance fees paying off then), not too fast and at a pretty damn good pitch for a five year old, you could hear her clearly but she wasn’t shouting, where did she learn to project her voice like that then? They were doing the story of the rainbow fish (a book I appear to have missed, the deputy head seemed to be putting it in the same league as The Hungry Caterpillar, I didn’t even know the story was an actual book) and at the end the fish have a party and do the macarena (I’m sure that bit probably isn’t in the book) and awww that bit, that was lump in the throat time!
As usual as was so impressed with the school and felt so blessed that my kids go there / will go there, it’s just such a lovely, friendly place, which produces such happy, confident children. The deputy head opened the assembly and was using makaton to settle the children in the hall down, I know they use makaton in the classrooms to (Girl Lacer knows way more makaton signs than I do and is regularly learning more) and I just think that it’s so amazing that what is really ‘just’ a mainstream state school with a special needs unit is doing that with all their children and from what I could see from how quickly the children settled down in the hall, it works for everyone.
