Botany Downs Teachers Flashmob - Christmas 2015

I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day!

On Sunday it was the Christmas Parade and Santa Claus came to Howick!

The Kids from Botany Downs School were magical! 

Santa's workshop at the North Pole was filled with mischievous elves busily making toys and Santa's list was being written - he knows if you've been good!! 

The toy workshop was filled with sweet candy canes and delicious gingerbread men. The toy soldiers marched proudly in their smart red uniforms with shiny brass buttons and happily played their tin drums. The sweetest sugar plum fairy led the soldiers with her graceful dance. Her clockwork key was wound only once and she danced for the entire time until the music stopped. The Christmas gifts followed, carefully wrapped in their festive paper and silvery ribbons. The music played and the crowd loved it.

So, is there a Santa Claus? 

Here is a piece written by Francis Church back in 1897:

"Yes, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to our life its highest beauty and joy.

Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no ‘you’. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Is it all real? In all this world there is nothing else as real and abiding.

No Santa Claus? Thank God he lives and he lives forever. 

A thousand years from now, maybe ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the hearts of children."

Enjoy the video…

Sausage Making Process

By Charlotte.

One day Rosie the cow was having a calf! She was moaning and groaning… hours later that day the farmer saw the beautiful calf drinking from Rosie’s tummy.

The farmer picked the baby calf up, and put it in a different paddock and took good care of it and decided to call it Diggy!

Four years went past, Diggy became a fully grown bull. When it was time to send Diggy to the butcher, the farmer put him in the back of his truck and drove off not really caring about Diggy in the back, tied up. When it was time to say goodbye, the farmer got Diggy out of the back of the truck, tied him up outside and went to get the butcher!

The butcher came outside and collected Diggy, and took him out the back to kill and chop him up! 

After about an hour, the butcher had chopped up Diggy. He put him in a mince making machine. 20 minutes later, Diggy the bull was not a bull anymore, he was mince!

The Mince Collectors came to pick up all of the mince, and placed it in the supermarket in a freezer!! The mince was just sitting there waiting to be bought. 

My teacher, Mr Huskinson came across it and bought it. After he bought the mince, he took it to room 14 (my class) and we got to make sausages using a sausage making machine!

Matthew (Jayden's dad, who is a chef) came to help us make the sausages! We needed lamb intestine, herbs, spices and of course mince to make the sausages.

First we put the intestine on the little tubes on the machine, next we put the mince inside the machine, and Mr fillet pumped the sausages out. We got to hold the tray! (intestine is the outside of the sausage).

After all of that Mr Huskinson had other supermarket pork and beef sausages. Ms McClean cooked the sausages on the BQQ, and Kaylin helped cook the pork sausages, (lucky).

After they were all cooked, we had a taste test! Before I go on to that the year 5’s made the homemade beef sausages and the year 6’s made the homemade lamb sausages!

My favourite was homemade lamb!. The class liked the beef sausages we made the best, the lamb sausages we made were second favourite, and the beef and pork supermarket 
sausages were the least favourite in our class.