Awards and Cake

The second week of July saw us being invited to the school for the Year 8 awards day.  Didn't even know it existed!  It took place at St Mary's Church in Kirkby.  We headed over there early - any Primary School do was always full before the advertised time, but it was empty so we got some good seats.  There were a lot of awards to hand out - one girl and one boy for each academic subject, and then 10 awards for Effort, 16 for Values, and then a whole heap for sports and performing arts (QES is a specialist sports and Performing Art Academy).  Tom got two awards - one for Effort Grades and one for Values.  They fairly rattled through them all - doubling up where they could.  We saw the same faces again and again and again - obviously some really do stand out.  Quite a few of our friends were there - Sierra got one for Biology, Caitlin got one for Values, Lucas got one for sport.  Interestingly the kids that won EVERYTHING at Primary School didn't win anything - amazing what happens when parents are removed from having any influence at school isn't it?

The (very weak) head of Year 8 did a speech about what has happened this year - she is an English teacher, lets say she still doesn't impress me!  Put it this way - can't remember a word she said!

Half way through the session there was a performance of the Steel Pan Band - which included our Tom.  Sounded as good as before, and once again he seemed to really really enjoy it.  Considering they only started out after Easter - they have done really well.

The following day, Tom had food tech - their big end of course project was to make and decorate a cake - quite difficult when you only have an hour per lesson.  They baked the cake in one lesson, put it in the school freezer and decorated it in another.  Tom decided to do a bear cake - and here it is.  I was very impressed by the smoothness of the buttercream going around the side of the cake, that is something that I always struggle with!