Aaron's Blog

Due to Covid, and the current guidelines, the school were unable to put on all of the usual Christmas activities this year, which was a real shame.  So Aaron has missed out on his Christmas meal at school and his carol service.  🙁

Instead of the Christmas meal, each of those in KS2 were given a mince pie and a drink – fantastic!  The reasoning behind them not having a proper Christmas meal was that they don’t now eat in the hall, but at their desk in their classrooms instead.  Surely it wouldn’t have been too difficult for the children to eat their meal at their desk in the classroom!!!  Unfortunately, it seems like another ‘easy way out’ option that the school has taken, but it is a real shame for all of the children.  Aaron loves his Christmas meal!! haha

Instead of the carol service, the school did actually do something else though!!  They gave each class a carol (or part of a carol) to sing and they were recorded doing it.  The video was then put together and sent out to all parents, so at least they did something!!

Last Friday was Christmas Jumper day at Bickleigh School, so both Aaron and Coby went dressed up in their new Christmas jumpers.  They looked very smart indeed!! 🙂

Christmas Jumper Day At School

Aaron has been back at Cubs for the past 2 weeks now and has enjoyed it again.  He did start up for a couple of weeks before lockdown 2, and received his 4 seasons badges, but it has been very stop start unfortunately.  Last week, he made and coloured in a bird house and last night, he had a small Christmas Party where they played games all night and generally had a lot of fun!

Bird House

4 Seasons Badges

Last week Aaron came home with a School Values Award for something special that he had done at school.  This one was for ‘showing love and kindness in the playground’ which meant that he must have helped another child at some point and was spotted doing so.  Well done, Aaron!!

School Values Award

We were really worried about this but much to our relief, when Kelly took Aaron and Coby back to swimming two weeks ago, she said it was perfect and that they had done a very good job in keeping children and parents socially distant.  There were actually only two groups of children in the pool, which was Coby’s Stage 2 in the small pool and Aaron’s Stage 5/6 in the big pool.  This meant that it was nice and quiet in the cafe for Kelly to stand and wait for them, which was the main concern really.  The only other change was that the boys’ lessons finished 5 mins earlier to ensure time for them to change and leave the premises before the next groups arrived and that they are meant to turn up in their swimming gear ready to go.  The turning up part is the hardest as Kelly takes them straight from school so they still do get changed in the changing rooms as they don’t have much choice really.  As it is so quiet, it isn’t much of an issue though, thank goodness!

For the swimming itself, they both were very rusty when they started again as they hadn’t been swimming since March!  Aaron had forgotten how to do Butterfly completely! haha  They will soon get into it again though, as long as the pool doesn’t get shut down again!!  It is good that they are back as they really need to get through this now and get on and complete their swimming lessons!