Church Clubbing

Another small milestone today as we resumed Church Club at the Infants School. Sandra, Hilda and I struggled to remember how to set things up after 18 months, even though the school had made it simple enough for us by restricting membership to Year 1 children which resulted only in 6 attenders, half what we would usually expect (and will all of those stick, we wonder?). Over the course of the pandemic all the stuff we store in the room off the hall at school has disappeared, so I'm glad I found a secret hoard of hole-punchers, staplers and sticky tape while clearing out the church hall loft - of which, rivetingly, more later.

The Year 1s, only just out of Reception, are very, very tiny. Normally a leaven of Year 2s would lead the way, boldly tackling the puzzles and crafts, and sometimes take the younger children under their wing. At least the girls might. It would be an exaggeration to say that this group don't know which way up they are, because achieving that is a key goal in Reception year, but they haven't got much farther than that.