I have mentioned her before - she is the amazing one that rowed across the Indian Ocean solo last year - (she has a great website). I told my kids on Monday that she was coming and they have been getting more and more excited all week at the thought of her coming. Am not quite sure how the excitement started building - it was genuinely more them than me!! One girl emailed Sarah on the first evening and I shared that in school and put her in the special book for it which was a snowball effect!
Anyway, needless to say she was amazing. I was there for the talk she did to the infants which was such fun, and then she went over to do a talk to the Juniors which sounds to have been fantastic then she came back to chat to my class which they loved and loads were crowding round her at the end of the lesson when they should have been going to lunch!
Here is the email of appreciation that I sent Sarah this evening. I hope it conveys the amazement and the thanks:
I can't really begin to thank you enough for coming to school today and how amazed everybody was and the impact that you had on staff and pupils. I don't think i had done a good enough job bigging you up before, as to me you are still my friend Sarah who has happened to have done this amazing thing. But now they really know just how incredible you are! I know you must get a lot of praise all the time, but i just wanted you to know what our School thought, so here you go:
Mr, the head, spoke to me several times this afternoon saying what a great job you had done and how amazed the kids were and how we have to get your visit on the school website and how we have to follow your next adventure. the head of the juniors said in passing what a great job you had done. all three year three teachers spoke to me (on separate occasions) about how fab you had been for the year three children all the way up to the year 6 children. one of the teaching assistants who had been in the assembly stopped me and was talking for ages about how fascinated she was and was asking me loads of questions and i came across her later on discussing you again with someone else! On the infant side, it was the head of the infants, one of the most senior teachers (and my mentor) who gave you the work just before you left from her class so that's a really high opinion to have! Also the lady who said you were the best guest assembly speaker and possibly the best assembly ever, was the head of the reception year and really pretty senior! Another reception teacher said how enthralled both the children and the adults were. Lots of these people talked about what a good speaker you were, it wasn't just that you had a great story but it was how you told it! And loads of my kids were saying how excited they were because it had been such a good day because you had visited them. I think more members of staff have talked to me today than ever before - if nothing else you have definitely put me on the map at school!!!
Also i got this text from one of the year 3 teachers at the end of the day:
Hi! Just wanted to thank u and Sarah. It was just fantastic! Wondered if Sarah was around as i wanted to say thanks and let her read some of the letters the class wrote. Thanks and happy friday!
I have brought the letters home with me so if you wanted to stop by tomorrow morning you are most welcome to look at them, but i know you will be busy.
Wow and thank you, Sarah!
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