Thank you so much for supporting our first Apple Day. We had such a good time. The festivities started after the Harvest Festival in the Baptist Chapel as we split into our house groups to prepare the food we would need for the evening’s events. Columba spent the morning chopping vegetables from Mrs Tooley’s garden to make a delicious chunky vegetable stew. Cygnus were set the task of preparing sweet potatoes and butternut squash to make a fiery, bright orange soup that was delicious with a dollop of crème fraiche and parsley. Apus’ job was to prepare the dough for our bread rolls. They kneaded four kilograms of flour to make over 70 super tasty rolls. Meanwhile, Aquila’s job was to cut up several hundred apples so they could be pulped and then squeezed to make apple juice. This was a hugely sticky affair and the wasps were quickly interested in our efforts, but the results were several litres of really appley, slightly tart but absolutely delicious juice that everyone who tasted it really enjoyed.
The evening was delightful: it was lovely to invite our families back to school to taste all the things we had prepared. The atmosphere in the hall was lovely and the children were really proud of their efforts. Having eaten our fill, we made our way out to the Forest School to admire the pumpkins in the competition, play on the field, then settle down around Miss Adamson’s fire to enjoy some baked apples with crushed biscuit crumble and some campfire songs. It was great fun.
The pumpkin competition was hotly contested and there were some brilliantly carved offerings, including toadstools, vegetables and farmers. Our winners were, in second place, Layla’s wonderful owl and, in first place, Dexter’s brilliant combine harvester.
Thank you to all our volunteers for your support in the morning and the afternoon.
