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Kirra's African Winner

Carisbrooke is very proud of their green fingered success - known to all here as Kirra.  Kirra and her family bought African sack gardens to Carisbrooke and not content with working her magic at school with her class, Kirra also worked on her own African Sack Garden at home and won the African Sack Garden competition run by the charity Send a Cow.               

                                                             

The competition involved growing a garden within a sack, using organic seeds and plants, mainly growing edible produce, such as tomatoes.

Kirra was presented with her certificate and award at the Shepton Mallet Amateur Gardening Show by organic specialist and author Bob Flowerdew.  Kirra impressed the judges when she told them in her application that she grew tomatoes and basil because she liked to eat them on her crackers with her cheese!

WELL DONE KIRRA!                                             

Visit the site for details:

http://www.sendacow.org.uk/schools.asp?active_page_id=245

The Pencil Cases have arrived

Good news - the pencil cases have arrived in Uganda at the office of the Link Community Development Organisation based in Masindi.

                        

Watch this space as they are taken to Kamurasi Demonstraton School and distributed amongst the children there.

Activities Africa Week

Enjoy some of the photos showing just a few of the activites which took place at Carisbrooke during Africa Week.

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African Picnic: A huge success

As a grand finale to our fantastic African Art Week the staff, children and parents had a picnic on Friday afternoon.  It was a chance to come together and celebrate the success of the week.  To be able to share some of the work we had worked on and to enjoy a great big fantastic feast of African foods.

First we had a real treat from Year 2 children who gave us a demonstration of African drumming.

We had some African dancing from Orange Class and 3/4W

and a delightful African song from the school choir.

3/4C made fabulous African masks and produced a dance to go with it.

 

3/4M learnt all about the habitat of gorillas and made some of their own to show.  They told us many facts about these truly amazing animals.

Year 2 made some fantastic african masks which they wore in a parade.

                           

The finale before we had our picnic was another opportunity to see the dance with Orange class and 3/4W and to invite everybody to join in with us.

The food was delicious and we tried many different types.  It truly was a magnificent end to a great week.  the County Press came to photograph us so keep checking for their write up!

Our Challenge

The Whole School challenge is underway already at Carisbrooke as parents, children, staff and parishioners of the Carisbrooke community endeavour to make 1100 pencil cases,  fill them with pens and pencils and then tag them and send them to Kamarasi Demonstration School in Uganda - our link school.

Watch this blog as more news comes in of the challenge and how it is going.

So far the total is at 275 pencil cases made.

Year 3/4 cake sale raised £78 pounds towards material for the pencil cases.

Please keep donating the pens and pencils!!  we need loads!!

Carisbrooke is a Case Study!

After the success of our African Launch Day - Link Community Development Charity (LCD) felt it appropriate that Carisbrooke become a case study, an exemplar for other schools looking at organising a launch day to mark their link with a school abroad.

This is very exciting news for us all here at Carisbrooke and means that the strength and commitment within our school community will reach many schools who are looking to do the same thing.

Please open the document below to have a look at the case study.

Download carisbrooke_case_study.doc

African Launch Day

Please have a look at our launch day with our link school Kamurasi Demonstration Primary School in the Masindi region of Uganda.
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