Thursday 17th June – Shearing Trip

On Thursday morning a group of children, staff, parents

and grandparents rode in our trusted tractor and trailer

to the sheep sheds at Park Farm.

There we watched the two shearers at work. The process fascinated the children.

Todd, the shepherd showed us some shears up close and one of the fleeces.

Back at nursery, unsurprisingly, the first choice of song at grouptime was; ‘Baa, baa black sheep’. The older children pointed out that we hadn’t seen any black sheep, so they suggested two new versions; ‘Baa, baa black-faced sheep’ and ‘Baa, baa black-legged sheep’ instead!With all Overbury farm hands hard at work, we did see several ‘bags full’!!

Maypole dancing 28th May

It could be us in a few years!!

So we had been watching the rehearsals closely through the fence for the last few weeks. Then on Friday we got to see the real thing!

On our walk through the village, knowing what we were going to see, one of our 2 year olds just kept repeating " I'm so excited!".

We were very proud of how well the nursery children sat as they watched out for the children they knew from breakfast and after-school club, clapping along with the rest of the audience,

they really seemed to enjoy it.

Thank you and congratulations to the Overbury School children and staff.