The group managed to watch the dress rehearsals for Forms 1, 2 and 3 as well as taking part in an assembly in their classroom with Mr Shield on National Santa’s List Day (4th December), where they found out all about the mathemagic of Father Christmas’ journey on Christmas Eve. Did you know that Santa’s sleigh would have to travel at a speed of approximately 5 million miles per hour in order to visit all the children in the world and that his sleigh would have to support roughly 550 million tons of weight to carry all of their presents. 

Our Form 7 children played a rather more active role in Friday’s assembly, where they led them for their House Groups. With activities ranging from cookie decorating to musical statues, I must congratulate the children for their brilliant ideas and organisation in these assemblies. 

In lessons, the children have been engaging in murder-mystery style tasks in maths and English, where they were required to solve clues in order to eliminate suspects from their enquiry. In maths, the clues were based around calculations with fractions, whilst in English, the problems involved spelling, punctuation and grammar tasks. 

And of course, we couldn’t be approaching the final week of term before Christmas and not have our decorations up. The School Council helped to decorate the Russell House Christmas tree, whilst Form 7 worked together to decorate their own classroom with lights, bunting, tinsel and trees.