Delabole Slate April 2022

Delabole Village Show
Dear Delabole,
It is hoped that the Delabole Village Show will be able to go ahead this year. If you have attended previous shows
you will know what a marvellous event this is for our village. There truly is something for everyone with classes for
flowers, vegetables, cookery, art, crafts, floral art and photography, as well as a wide variety of children's classes - a
real showcase for all the village has to offer.
More details and schedules will be available in early summer, but in the meantime, if you'd like to know more, or feel
you can help in any way please come along to our AGM on Tuesdy May 3rd at 7pm in the Chapel Schoolroom.
We'll have the kettle on and we promise you a warm welcome.
Delabole School
‘Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the
most patient of teachers.’ Charles W Elliot
If someone were to ask you to capture key moments in your life by thinking of the most important books you had
encountered, where would you even start?
For those of us who have always had a love of reading, but perhaps even more so for those of us who have struggled
with reading, it would take a great deal of thought and deliberation, and it would trigger countless memories – some
of them joyful, some of them perhaps quite lonely. Moments of carefree escapism and moments of desperately needing
to escape into a book when life gets too hard. Moments when we gaze outward and connect with countless other
souls and moments when we look inward and tap into our deepest selves. Books are a potent trigger for emotion, for
intrigue, excitement, outrage, empathy, magic, danger and solace. The list is endless and linked to all that it means
to be a human amongst other humans. What a gift that is!
Which is why, ultimately, the most important job we ever
do in school – apart from the fundamentals of safety –
is to teach children to read and then offer them
encounters with the best that has been said and written.
It goes far beyond just a selection of modern fiction. It
goes to the very core of our children’s cultural heritage
and connects them with who they are, where they belong
and what they may one day become.
At Delabole Primary, when we talk about the journey
from learning to read to reading to learn, we are really
making a commitment to shaping a person, because
beautiful core texts lie at the heart of all we do. For every
element of our curriculum, there is a book that has been selected with care that is ‘just the right book for the job’ at
that time. Every book has to earn its place and must inspire, delight, provoke thought and trigger emotion. It is hard
to measure how much impact this truly has on our children – although they show us every day that they are touched
by the words and books we share.
But when we asked the children to share their ‘life in books’, we were astounded by their responses. They rewarded
us with the most life affirming, creative and captivating array of presentations – each one so carefully considered and
so enticing. The images here really don’t do justice to the attention to detail and sheer joy in books that we witnessed.
What it truly did show us is that children connect with books from the earliest age in a really powerful way and define
themselves through the books they love. If ever there were any doubt that reading to and with your child is one of the
most important things a parent can do, these images dispel it. Share a book with your child. It makes all the difference
in the world.
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Drop-In Tuesday
Drop-In for coffee and a chance to chat with
friends and friends-you-haven’t-yet-made
in the Methodist Schoolroom on the third
Tuesday of the month - that’ll be
Tuesday April 19th
between 10.30am and noon.
There’ll also be a collecting point for
Wadebridge Foodbank.