Our Artist-Andrew

This is Andrew our artist. He is going to design the gates for the new school and also the reception desk. He designed the special seats in the city centre peace gardens.

The desk and hopefully a special bench to go inside the atrium (the space in the middle of the new school where you can look up and see the sky) will be made from some big timber beams that were saved from the Infant school when it was demolished.

See Andrew's website for further information about his work.

http://www.andrewskelton.co.uk/index.html

The most important place in school...
The main office

Photo L-R Kath, Denise, Shelagh
Kath and Cath went to meet the staff who are working in the main office at the Sharrow Junior School. It was important to discuss how the new office and reception were going to work as it is going to be different from what everyone is used to.

Photo L-R Lesley, Kath, Denise

Kath took lots of notes and did some drawings and there was lots of discussion. The new reception area is going to be open, like in an hotel and there will only be a little office. Lesley, Denise and Shelagh will be able to see everything that goes on and everyone that comes in and out. They will be the welcoming face of the school to everyone who visits.

We hope they don't mind having such an important job meeting all our friends and families and other visitors.

HOLIDAY...hooray!!!

Well we've been a bit busy and when we were offered tha chance of a holiday we thought that would be nice. Cath said we could go with her to Centre Parcs at Sherwood Forest, so off we went for a few days.

We had swans outside our bedroom window and they were so friendly you could feed them if you were gentle and careful they didn't bite your fingers!.

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The grey swan in the photo above is a young swan nearly a year old and is called a cygnet.

This was a bit close for comfort!

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We went out onto the lake in a canoe. Cath and her sister Gail rowed us right out into the lake and round the edge and we saw lots of swans and some baby moorhens..

We climbed a tree for a better look out over the lake.

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Barbeque time. We helped with the cooking of the sausages and burgers.

These are our barbeque friends.Left to right-Geoff, us on his lap, Ken, Gail, Shaun, Maureen and Cath.

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We went along to the badminton tournament that Geoff played in. We cheered lots and Geoff won first place! He got a medal.

We also had a try at hitting some golf balls on the golf driving range.

We met up with a big friend of ours.

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We wanted to go and do some bird watching so we went along to the bird hide, here we are watching the bird feeding area.

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The hide is a little shed with windows to watch the birds, squirrels, rabbits and other things. Sometimes there are deer and foxes.

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We were unlucky to miss seeing a woodpecker...

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but we did get to see a swan on a nest hatching the eggs.

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