From the Primary School

During the months of lockdown, you may have seen various displays within your community that represented a sense of togetherness and solidarity in a time of uncertainty, challenge and isolation. One popular initiative, coined “Spoonville”, was started in the UK by a very creative lady who came up with the idea of making characters from wooden spoons as a way of cheering up her local community during lockdown. We loved this idea and decided to create our very own SCEGGS Spoonville!

During At Home Learning this term, the girls and teachers brought a wooden spoon to life, creating a character inspired by someone or something they love or admire. They gave it a name and a full-blown character profile. On the return the school, the girls paraded their spoon characters through the gate and the teachers were blown away by their marvellous creations! We had unicorns, Harry Potters, puppy dogs, mad scientists and even one of Gladys wearing one of her recognisable coloured blazers!

Over the past few weeks, each class has gone into the playground to choose a space to lay their spoon characters. These colourful, fun and unique creations have brought a fantastic pop of colour into the playground. in addition to this, we feel it also symbolises how wonderful it is to all be back together as a Primary School community for the end of the school year.

Congratulations to the girls for their commitment to this task. We just wish you could all come onsite to see how fabulous SCEGGS Spoonville truly is in real life!

Sarah Johnstone
Deputy Head of Primary (Student Wellbeing)