Yesterday we had our usual end of school year party. It was a lot of fun for the children and a lot of hard work for the parents taking part, but also a proud moment to be captured on camera. Every year the school has a theme that is the central thread of all subjects and activities, this year the topic was the importance of water. The party also follows the same theme. It’s no wonder it was a lot of fun, as you can imagine water in summer makes a very good party.

The afternoon started with the children singing for the parents, symbolic diplomas were handed to the kids moving stage and the games followed. Every class organised 2 games each with the help of the teachers and a few voluntary parents. Some of the games were pure fun jump in the blow-up pools kind of thing and others were little experiments with an educational purpose. I liked the fabric colouring game that was hosted by our class. We had a lot of white cotton rags, shredded multi coloured paper and water. Each child had to wet his/her cotton rag, squeeze the water out and place it on a plastic sheet on the floor, then they all added the paper shreds on top of each rag and covered the whole thing with another large plastic sheet. At that point the music started and all the kids jumped up and down on the plastic for about five minutes. At the end, they removed the covering sheet, the wet paper from the fabric and put their now multi coloured rags to dry on the line.