Every year in October we hold our Harvest Festival. Parents from Year 6 are invited to join the whole school celebrating with songs and poems from every class, event the very new Prekindergarten singing in public for the first time. Children are encouraged to think about what harvest festival means and how important giving to others is in the life of our community.
To put this into practice , our children all bring in a small gift of food as a Harvest offering. The years 6 children with their parents collect these gifts together and take them individually boxed with poems and Harvest cards inside to local elderly people chosen for us by Kew Neighbourhood Association.
We have collaborated with the KNA for nearly 10 years on this Harvest project, and we are proud to be the only school in Kew that undertakes this task of bringing Harvest gifts to local elderly people, hand delivered by our Year 6 children and their parents. The children really enjoy the experience, and learn from it as well, and we are always very delighted to receive and read to the children the letters of thanks that come in to school from those people who have met our pupils and received gifts.
Information on Kew neighbourhood Association can be found at www.kna.org.uk