By Frances Boniface, English teacher
Halloween fun started early at Rodion Pedia this year. Feeling it was important to strike the right balance between fun and learning, the English department prepared Halloween-themed lessons on Thursday 30th October. From songs and crafts in Primary 1, 2 and 3 to Halloween logic puzzles in Primary 6, all extracurricular material was carefully chosen to be age appropriate and suit the English language levels of our students.
As the children began to arrive, we were amazed by the work put into the students’ costumes and the ingenuity of the ideas: from zombies to Ninjas and skeletons to undercover Mexican cartel street vendors! It was now time for the fun to begin!
Overnight, Ms Effie Asvesta, Ms Zoe Filippidi and Ms Doria Panae – a trio of terrifying clowns – had transformed the school library into a spooky Halloween wonderland with clever challenges and scary trials! Who was brave enough to put their hand in the goo to find the mystery objects or courageous enough to put their hands inside Dracula’s Boxes of Doom? Trying to pin the heart on the skeleton was not nearly as easy as it looked when you had been spun around. The next station was the traditional Halloween game of dooking (or bobbing) for apples.
Our final stop was to the Primary office where students received their gifts after chanting:
“Trick or Treat,
Smell my feet,
Give me something good to eat.
Not too big, not too small
Just the size of Montreal! “
