Thursday. With big black clouds threatening from all sides, I took some children out to the garden. Mrs W was feeling unwell today and hadn't been in, but I decided to take the children out. I choose five children who I knew would work well and hard. Jacob spent the afternoon weeding the vegetable beds and a fantastic job he did too! Ali and Melissa helped with sowing more seeds in trays and transferring plants to bigger pots. Josh and Jordan started planting out some strawberry plants in our strawberry bed (hope it stops raining by June!) and later Reece joined us. It all ended up with us weeding the beds as the big black clouds still hung in the distance, so we made the most of the lull in the weather.
At 2.45, the heavens opened yet again. We had just put all the tools away and sorting ourselves out, when we realised there was rhubarb to be picked! It was as we started this activity, that the downpour occured. The children picked quite a bit and put it in the wheelbarrow as I intended to sell it to the parents. They took some stalks themselves and headed back into school, a bit grubby, a tad damp, but very happy.
I was going to wheelbarrow the rhubarb down to our main playground, but only got as far as Reception class. It was here, that I sold several bags of rhubarb to parents and some members of staff. It was well worth standing in the rain for. There is still tons of rhubarb in the garden, so there could be more sales next week!
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