It was a good day today. We satred with nearly an hour of Indian based dancing which the children loved. The visiting teacher was impressed with their enthusiasm and grasp of dance techniques. She worked with the children to create their own dances and when I told her we had been trying some Bollywood steps she taught us Jai Ho from Slumdog Millionaire. That was fun. Later in the afternoon all the classes performed their dances to each other and we had a whole school performance of Jai Ho. Our headteacher was videoing it and I noticed the camera swinging around to us teachers quite a lot. She could probably put that on YouTube to show just how unco-ordinated we all are. It has been raining all day so the children didn't get any time outside but as well as the dancing we had a lot of things to finish off.
No chance to take photos today so here's few more from yesterday's trip to the swimming pool. Firstly here's an enormous Tesco's superstore being built on the site of my favourite independent store - Brain Ford's.
Then as we approach the New Bridge a view of our infamous rock art roundabout. Our local council paid over £200,000 for this collection of stones in their ugly metal cradles. The best stone was the one on the far left which was rather phallic and had various ribald local names until the council doctored it to a less obvious shape, spoil sports. Not only was this a massive expenditure at a time when the recession was beginning to hit but the placement of the stones on their sides has left them open to rapid erosion as the stone is a relatively soft slate that forms loose layers which can split off quite easily.
No chance to take photos today so here's few more from yesterday's trip to the swimming pool. Firstly here's an enormous Tesco's superstore being built on the site of my favourite independent store - Brain Ford's.
Then as we approach the New Bridge a view of our infamous rock art roundabout. Our local council paid over £200,000 for this collection of stones in their ugly metal cradles. The best stone was the one on the far left which was rather phallic and had various ribald local names until the council doctored it to a less obvious shape, spoil sports. Not only was this a massive expenditure at a time when the recession was beginning to hit but the placement of the stones on their sides has left them open to rapid erosion as the stone is a relatively soft slate that forms loose layers which can split off quite easily.
