An Event Well Worth Waiting For!

Friday October 8 at 9.00am for morning assembly - the decided time for President Les and myself to repeat our badge presentation to Quilters RotaKids, this time at Buttsbury for our president to present our RotaKids badges for the new academic year and to invest the new RotaKids and club officers.  Arriving too early, having decided to walk and aware of the parking problems,  I was welcomed with a cup of tea in the reception area before Les arrived. He had further to come and would need to drive.

I had prepared the badges and wristbands to make it easier for presenting, and I waited……….and waited.  As the clock ticked round to 8.57am I began to fear the worst. I was formulating a contingency plan, which was basically to proceed without him, when I saw him drive into the car park. He cleared security and we went straight into a full hall.

Assembly, which began after we had been introduced to the children. started with the class merit awards and I was intrigued (and impressed) to hear that one of the classes awards for Artist of the Week was to a young girl for “a very good self-portrait in the style of Picasso”.

Invite To Join Us

Once the various awards were announced, Les was invited to go forward to make the presentation of the badges. He preceded this with a few words and also read the RotaKids’ pledge with the officers and other RotaKids before handing the individual officers the badges with their particular office inscribed thereon.

Les invited them to come to the Club in the summer to let our members know what they had achieved in the year.  Assembly drew to a close and the officers and a small delegation adjourned outside for the required photo.

All in all, the assembly had run like clockwork, helped by the fact that the children, as usual, were attentive and well-behaved and concentrating on the proceedings in hand and the part which they were to play. The upholding of the school motto of “maximum effort for maximum achievement” is clear to see.

By Michael Sinclair, Rotary Youth Chairman