Thoughts from the Prep School
Rydal Penrhos Prep School head Lucy Davies returns with her weekly thoughts after another busy few days across the site.
Children do tend to set a great score on how old they are…birthdays are huge milestones in so many ways.
It’s been an interesting aspect of the whole Rydal Penrhos Prep School doing a daily challenge in the past few weeks – how much should we adapt the challenge to allow for age difference?
The photograph shows a Year 4 class attempting one of the challenge balances earlier this week, a couple of wobbles but all managed fine.
The situation was quite different with pupils in Reception who are four years younger!
Let’s just say that we needed quite a bit of space to accommodate the wobbling!
An age-related conversation overheard in the corridor outside my office earlier this week:
Pause in conversation, the rest of the class catch up…
The four-year-old looked slightly puzzled, realising that he may have scored a metaphorical own goal (or been ‘busted’ in four-year-old language!)
Somehow the difference between 25 and 26 or 42 and 43 doesn’t seem to hold quite the same gravitas as that between a three and four year old.
Does that mean that we mark the passage of time more or less as we grow older?
When exactly do we stop looking forward to getting one year older?
Maybe we shouldn’t stop, maybe we should value the wisdom, experience and permission to run down the corridor!
Mrs L Davies
Head of Rydal Penrhos Prep School
Stars of the week
Reception – Albert
Artist of the Week
Archie-Glyn