Tea And Cakes With Our Pals At Quilters

As Youth Chair, Mike Sinclair reports with an update on Quilters Pen Pals project.

SNOW on arrival at Quilters. Not the best start for a Pen Pals tea!  Especially since it was planned OUTDOORS !

So be it. Plan B: The children had arrived early in the morning to bake cakes and it was too late to cancel at 1.45pm. New venue, the school hall – with doors open.

Lovely greeting by Maureen Lee the liaison for Pen Pals. I meet Chloe and Sophia on the school council and members of the RotaKids club. Chloe was at pains to explain to me why not all the members would be wearing their badges. Some had PE lessons and badges could not be worn in those lessons.  Perfectly right.

Shy Alex

I met the children, and their pen pals.   Some pen pals had prepared a list of the children’s names with whom they had been in correspondence.

Much animated conversation and I enjoyed the company of Alex who was quite shy but said enough to convey that he enjoyed the whole pen pal idea.

The official business. I met the year Two council who were members of the RotaKids club and presented the five council members with RotaKids “make a difference” wrist bands. President Finlay said they could use some more pledge cards. I agreed to email Maureen a scanned copy which she could print out.

Finlay remembered the Rotary presentation at the beginning of the year and was sad that it was his last year at Quilters.  “A great school and everyone was very nice, “

Top Of The World

Organisation as always at Quilters – full on.   About two dozen senior pen pals attended.

The children arrived in shifts. Years 3 and 4 for 15 minutes; replaced by Years 5 and 6.  Then choir came in and sang before everybody joined in for the final Carpenters song “Top of the World”.

Official business over, time for tea and cakes (and what cakes!*) and much exchange of how the project was such a success.  Great RotaKids; Great Event.