Thursday 24th May

Well Mo and Yanna really helped get the Dictionary campaign off the ground and we are now up to 38 dictionaries which means we have enough to cover the scholarship class. Special thanks also to Hugh next door for offering to match his guests and to Steve who bought ten.

We took a few dictionaries down to the school the other day to see how the kids react to them.We split the younger scholarship class into six groups and gave them words to look up. We made it a race to see who could find the words fastest.


After a short tutorial, the children all seemed to get the hang of it.



I think they found it fun, and when we finished the exercise, they wouldn't close the dictionaries.


Here is Yanna explaining how to look up a word