Beautiful May Day Queen and Maids

So far we have raised £203!

😬 Yes it’s true. From writing our letters and delivering them to our  neighbours we managed to raise £203 so far!

On Thursday we walked around Astbury to collect all our envelopes. We hoped people had read our letters and wanted to buy raffle tickets. We were very surprised and very grateful as lots of people did. We even got to talk to some of them and they thanked us for their letters. 

As well as collecting letters we also stopped into Astbury Care home to meet some older ladies and gentlemen and have a quick chat. Some of the people we met were older than us, they were between 86 and 92 years old. They really liked meeting us and we liked meeting then too. 

After our walk we watched the May Day Commitee and helpers putting up the tents for May Day.
With all our hard work and lots of walking we think that we may have beat the other classes at making the most money! 

Thank you to all the parents who were able to help on the stall on Saturday. Your help was very much     appreciated. 

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Look what arrived this morning!

Mrs Gifford came in to give us a letter that came in the post. 
It was a reply from one of the neighbours to one of our letters. John and Glendale wrote to us to thank us for our letter. They said they’d be out on Thursday but had enclosed their £5 and their raffle ticket stubbs. How great is that! We were so excited. 👏🏼😬

May Day preperations

Last week we went out to deliver our letters we had been writing to the neighbours. We wrote to them about the our May Day stall and asked if they would like to buy any raffle tickets. 

Before posting our letters we turned our classroom into a post office. We decorated our envelopes and put raffle tickets in with our letters.

After sorting out letters we set off on our delivery round. 

On our way back we learnt about road signs, pedestrian crossings, speed limits and how to make lorries honk their horns!😀

We will be going back on Thursday to see if there will be any raffle tickets waiting for us. 
We have done our bit for May Day so now it’s time for you to help aswell. We need you to sign up for a time slot to help out on our raffle stall. Our stall has great views of the dancing, will be opposite the fire engine and is usually close to the food. Miss Irwin will be asking you to sign up. The time slots are only for 15 minutes. Please help us to raise lots of money (also to beat all the other classes at raising the most money). 

May Day Photos 27th April

The Reception girls will be in a May Day photo shoot next week for the retinue and Queen photos.

They have had their costumes sorted in school. To accompany their dresses they will need white pumps and white socks. Please send these into school in a bag with their name on. These need to be in school by next Tuesday at the latest.

The girls will be brought in earlier from lunch so the adults can help them get ready for the photos at 1pm. Any mummies who are free to help from 12.30 with hair and dressing would be greatly appreciated. Please let Miss Irwin know if you can come in to help.

 

May Queen and little Maids

  As Astbury School we have a wonderful tradition in taking part in the yearly event of May Day. This is a day when the whole community of the village comes together to celebrate the new May Queen of the year. The Queen is chosen from our school as are her attendants. The whole school is involved in dances and each class has a stall to run where all the money raised comes back to school. There is also food and drink tents, local business stalls, rides and last year we even had the fire service with a fire engine. It’s a wonderful family day for everyone to enjoy.

On Friday in Celebration worship we had the draw for who would be the school’s new May Queen and Chelsea was picked out of the hat. The current Queen Lily-Lou will retire in May and Chelsea will have her ceremony and take her place as the new Queen. As part of the tradition every little girl in Reception will be a little maid to the new queen. This means they will be in photos, sit on the throne with her and be a big part of the day.

As part of the girls maids costumes they wear all white dresses provided by school. They are asked to wear white pumps to accompany the dresses. These can often be tricky to find at the time. Lucky for us Rufus’ mummy noticed that there were white pumps for sale in Marks and Spencer’s now! We thought it might be worth while letting parents know now.

 
Little boys in Recepton also are part in the day.They become part of the procession and get to wear little shorts and waist coats provided by school. Parents are asked to provide white shirts to go underneath their waistcoats. Boys wear black pumps.

More information on May Day will be posted as we get nearer to May. Please keep your eye on the school newsletters and this blog. 

May Day costumes and Saturday arrival information.

Boys costumes will go home on Friday. They must come ready dressed in their costumes. 

Girls Maid dresses will stay in school for them to get changed into when they arrive at school at 12.45. 

All children must arrive at school on Saturday at 12.45 through Miss Irwin’s classroom. The gate will be open at 12.45. There they will be signing in register and then children will be sent to the rooms to get ready. No parents are allowed beyond Miss Irwin’s classroom. 

Parents are best to then get a place ready for viewing the procession, getting a seat in church or a seat on the field at the farm to watch dancing. 

Only Maids mums who have offered help will be allowed to come into school. But they will have to leave before the procession.  

If you are unsure of timings please check the letter on the school website. 

If you are helping on a stall Miss Itwin will have a wrist band for you to wear which gets you free entry.

Raffle ticket collection!

Yesterday, we had a wonderful surprise when Rachel the play therapist popped into our class. She brought back in one of our class Jonah envelopes. We had posted it through her door on Tuesday. She had read Annabelle’s letter and said she was so impressed she had to buy some raffle tickets! She bought £5 worth! 
We were very pleased. We thought maybe our plan might have worked. 

So today was the moment of truth. We would find out if all our hard work of planning and writing our letters, making our packages and posting all 50+ letters to our neighbours had worked? 

After play we set off on our walk.  

  We found our first envelope  just near the daffodill green.  

 But then not many more for a few doors. It was then we thought maybe people were on holiday, or too busy, or maybe didn’tike raffles! We started to. Have sad faces. 😟

But then…

As we got further down the road and spilt into teams to check different sides of the road we found a few on some door stops, then a few more, then a few more! We were starting to prove our critics wrong! Our bag was getting full!   

 
We even had people come out and talk to us and chase us to give us their tickets! 

When we got back to school we counted up all the envelopes, we’d collected 30!

We have managed to raise from our letters £138. We are extremely happy and Miss Irwin is very, very proud of us all. 😀

So please help us to raise more money on the raffle by telling everyone how hard we’ve worked, so they might want to buy tickets too! 

Class Jonah’s Post Office

This morning we set to putting all our letter in envelopes to post to our neighbours to encourage them to buy raffle tickets. 

We had to write on the envelopes, then put the letters and raffle tickets inside.  

                   It was very busy work. Then we had to stamp all the letters with the school stamp, so people knew they were from us. After that we set out on a walk to post all our letters. 

   
  

               

We even visited Mr McCormick’s old house who used to be the old head of Governors. It’s who the secret garden has been dedicated too.

Needless to say after all our deliveries we were very tired.

Then this afternoon we had May Day dancing practise ready for Saturday and we were fantastic.

Please support our stall and school this year by selling or buying the raffle tickets. We really want to make a difference. 

Little Maids photos tomorrow

Don’t forget tomorrow afternoon at 1pm there is a photo of the May Queen with all the little maids from Reception. 

If you can platt their hair in the morning please do so. If not staff and any helpers will do it at lunch time. 

Their dresses are in school. If you have their white pumps and socks, please send them in in a carrier bag with their names on.