After 20 years of working here Mrs Redman has sadly retired. The last few weeks before here retirement, the parent council and the students donated money to buy a special retirement gift for her. Over the last few weeks students brought her balloons and flowers which she gratefully accepted. We tried to make the last few weeks as enjoyable for her as possible. Max from Dalbeattie high school went round the high school and collected signatures from everyone who came to Kirkgunzeon Primary School for Mrs Redman.  Just before her send-off Kellie took a photo of all of us with her in it plus all the teachers which got framed and given to her for a present. On April 1st we said goodbye by waving to her and giving her the gifts. It was very emotional and we hope she has a good retirement. 🙂

On Wednesday we went to the Cocoa Bean factory. We started outdoors in the play area, and then we went in to make the chocolate.

First, we got a chocolate bar mould, with white chocolate and milk chocolate in it. We got to use our finger to swirl it into a pattern we liked. We then got to put sweets and sprinkles on top. We then wrote out name on with melted white chocolate, in a squeeze tube. We also got to have face paint, using the white chocolate in the squeeze tube.

We then made whatever we wanted to out of three marshmallows, using chocolate as glue. Ania and Sunna made chocolate lollies, because the marshmallows weren’t vegetarian. We got to decorate the marshmallows and lollies with sweets and the melted white chocolate, as well as milk chocolate. It was a competition, for who got the best marshmallow creation or lolly. One group went first and Elha won that one. In the other group, Logan M won.

We then got to play inside and outside for the rest of the time. We had a great time, and we are looking forward to getting the opportunity to eat our chocolate! 😀