As is traditional at this time of year the children celebrated May Day.

The May Queen was crowned and visitors were entertained by children performing Maypole and Country Dancing.

Ashdown Forest Morris Men performed traditional May Day dances.
Thanks must go to Eric Dawes who comes into school to help the children learn the Maypole Dances, this was his 45th consecutive year leading the Maypole dancing!

Work that the children had produced throughout the week was on display, all of this work had a ‘green’ theme. Also available for people to look at was work that has been produced historically throughout the school featuring the numerous green projects that we have undertaken.

The open afternoon was very well attended, the highlight being the Mayor of East Grinstead cutting the ribbon to launch our rainwater harvesting system, a system that will use harvested water to flush all of our toilets.

We are very proud to announce that the school has been awarded a prestigious Climate Week Award.

The award has been won in the category of Best Educational Initiative and was presented at the launch of Climate Week at Lancaster House in London yesterday.

The award is in recognition of all the positive environmental projects we have initiated throughout the school.

Thanks must go to Tom Parker, who over the years has worked tirelessly to gain the grants required to complete such projects.