Thank you for all your support over this past term – it has been a busy one, what with operating with 5 classes for the first time, and the construction of our new classroom! The good news is that the building work is due to be complete next week, and we will be operating in the new classroom come the start of the new term! The Grasshoppers are very excited about their new room wish much more space!
We look forwards to welcoming children back at the start of the new term on Wednesday 4th January 2023, and in the meantime we would like to wish all our families a joyful Christmas!
Our thoughts and prayers are with Jake and his family who sadly won’t be at home, and we really hope for good news in the new year!
Here is a Christmas poem to help remind us of the importance of this time of year.
The First Christmas
By Marian Swinger
It never snows at Christmas in that dry and dusty land.
Instead of freezing blizzards, there are palms and drifting sands,
and years ago a stable and a most unusual star
and three wise men who followed it, by camel, not by car,
while, sleepy on the quiet hills, a shepherd gave a cry.
He’d seen a crowd of angels in the silent starlit sky.
In the stable, ox and ass stood very still and calm
and gazed upon the baby, safe and snug in Mary’s arms.
And Joseph, lost in shadows, face lit by an oil lamp’s glow
stood wondering, that first Christmas Day, two thousand years ago.