Friday 21st March- Sports Relief day and all was quiet in the playground until an army of children turned up in a myriad shades of lurid vibrancy! Shocking pinks, clothes on backwards, hand-drawn t-shirts, pyjamas, bright onesies, crazy wigs and psychedelic skirts. And of course the usual stream of princess party dresses and spidermen.
I am always up for dressing up for any charity/special/auspicious day but today, because Crazy dress-up day coincided with the Official Opening of the School building (and the mayor coming- Orchestra and Samba Band playing, I though that there would be no time for me to change out of crazy clothing into something sensible (I was right- I was dashing around like a headless chicken all day until 5.30) so had to combine the two events into one. Admittedly, I'd probably wear this anyway but decided to combine 4 different prints into one outfit. The Greater Plains dress I was lured into buying by Char's flagrant posting of shopping links ;-) , was suitable as it has bikes (Sportsrelief?) and then I looked for derivative green items and added a headband, boots and cardie. I did debate bright aqua tights too but decided that was too much otherwise I would have looked full-on leprechaun instead of half! This could have been a St Patrick's day outfit too if I were Irish!
I have to say, I was SO proud of my kids today. The Samba-band were great and they set up and playing in the wind-tunnel that is the side of our school. We sported luminous scarves Rambo-style round our heads and played Tropic, a samba piece for a good 15 minutes. They were hugely excited and pleased with themselves. I am so glad I started the drumming club two and a half years ago now as it's been a really successful club which attracts different children as well as the music-types (like myself at school, the ones who are in anything remotely musical that they can be in!). There's one boy in it was that was a right pain in music before he started drumming club and he's really started to take a sense of pride in his musical abilities and makes sensitive decisions when creating music as well as performing now! He's more confident as well whereas before, a lot of his actions were bravado I think! The orchestra were brilliant as well!! They played the best that they have played and I was so happy with them! They were proud of themselves too and there were a lot of proud parents out there too. Performances really bring out that sense of joy and community! I am so lucky as a music teacher to get that 'final product' that many people can all enjoy and take part in, in one fell-swoop and I thank God that he gave me this job in this place, with events conspiring to lead me to my current position! I take too much for granted! Thank God for so many things!
xxx