Today was meant to be our day of Harvest Festival Fun from our potatoes given to us by the kind people of the Dandelion Project! Pupils made hard efforts at growing these potatoes both at home and in school and today we celebrated these efforts using potato in some creative ways! 

We kept it very low key today, especially given the recent sad news of the passing of our Queen. We spent some time today reflecting on her reign and the impact this day will have all over the world. 

So this morning we put our cooking skills to work making some tattie scones. Pupils peeled and shaped their mashed potatoes (teachers and adults handled the boiling and the mashing side…) and formed them into some interestingly shaped tattie scones which were then fried by staff! This was definitely an experience for pupils and some were amazing and some were sticky potato blobs sadly doomed for the bin, but what is success without some failure too? 

After enjoying these, the classes joined together once more for some potato based art. Pupils were given some sliced potatoes for printing purposes and told to come up with designs which made them think harvest, autumn and making the most of the land around us. As you can see, they did a great job with this brief. 

Overall, another lovely day in school to perhaps take our minds off the sad news from yesterday.

A huge shout out to Michelle, the lovely cook and Mrs Smith from Leswalt, who swooped in to lend a hand over the hot stove and the wild cleaning up. We couldn’t do it without you ladies 🙂