Going Bananas

A week ago Tim and Mum were invited to school, by Emilie, to watch “Going Bananas.”

We like it when one of our classes does an assembly as it means Mum and Tim take us to school, so sure enough this morning we were taken to school by Mum and Tim. Mum waited with Emilie whilst Tim took Dan across to the junior playground, once Emilie had gone into her classroom to get ready for the assembly Mum went to the infant hall and found Tim sat on the front row (prime seats) with a cup of tea!

After a short wait Mrs Hawkins and her class, Emilie included, made their way into the hall and took their places for the start of the assembly. The assembly started with a rendition of Old McDonald had a farm in which Emilie played the part of a very convincing duck – she had been walking round the house practising in recent weeks. Then once we discovered that bananas weren’t grown in England we headed off on a trip to the Windward Islands and on our way we met Captain Banana with his amazing cleaning product “Banana Whizz” and we were introduced to a family of banana people.

The children had all made characters out of a picture of a banana needless to sat most of the boys had made cowboy bananas and most of the girls had made fairy bananas although there were some exceptions including a clown banana!

When we arrived in the Windward Islands we were told some facts about banana growing and Fairtrade – Emilie had a line to deliver which she shouted beautifully it was “They are carefully washed and packed before being sented to us on big ships”

Once the facts had been delivered two of Emilie’s classmates showed us how to make banana and walnut loaf.
The assembly was brilliant and Emilie did very well, infact when the assembly was over Mrs Hawkins came across and said that even though Emilie was small she had a wonderfully loud voice when she delivered her lines and she wished that all the children could have done the same – don’t we know about the loud voice!!

Well done Emilie!