Hillsgrove School In Welling Leavers Day - Inflatable Package
It's leavers day season and we've been very busy recently providing inflatable packages and bouncy castles to lots of local Schools; Ranging from pre-schools to primary schools.
No matter whether they are heading off to "big school" or looking ahead to secondary school, leavers days can be a whole lot of fun. Hillsgrove School in Welling are very local to us and contacted us to help make their year 6 leavers a special day. This particular year group was hit very hard with Covid, missing out on all the usual school trips and activities - So when the opportunity arose to have an outdoor event in the sun came, the PTA grabbed the chance with both hands to give the children something nice to remember.
Being local to Welling all our lives, this was a strange experience for us as it was actually our own childhood school. It has changed a lot since then, but also remained very much the same. It was almost eery entering through the delivery gates that as a child seemed a mysterious place and out-of-bouncds for children, finally as an adult I had a chance to peel the curtain back and take a peek at the side of the school I never saw as a child. There was no real mystery, it's exactly the same as any other school, but yet somehow it was also different and almost felt like going through a time-machine.
Hillsgrove has always put on special days, as a child I remeber lots of Summer fetes, stalls, coconut shys and even a donkey derby once. It was truly a great experience to come back and be involved in this long-standing tradition of providing a fun-day for the children of the school.
The inflatables where strictly for the year 6 leavers. We had suggested setting up earlier so other children could go out in year groups to have some fun, but the PTA was quite set on this being exclusively for year 6 only - They missed out on residentials, school prom and lots of other usual activities due to Covid and seemed to be the worst affected year group, so this was exclusively for them to feel special and see out their last day with happy memories.
Hillsgrove is a 2 form school, so as it was a single year group (which they was splitting/staggering into their class groups) they didn't need a huge inflatable fete package, but they did want bigger equipment as they didn;t need to cater for younger children and siblings - They wanted the biggest fun they could have on the budget available. We recommended some equipment we felt would cope with the capacity quite well and deliver on the promise.
The feedback we received from the school was immense, the children loved the equipment and the balance between the fast paced through-put of the fun-run and the slide balanced out well with the slower turn-over on the giant fete sized bouncy castle, with no one missing out. We generally set-up the equipment while children are either off-site or in their class-room, picking it up to pack-away after the fun has ended, so we hardly ever get to see the actual fun taking place, but many of the parents where still saying their good-byes and children hugging friends as they know that after the school holiday they will be off to different schools - It was touching when so many of them thanked us for the inflatables and said what a brilliant last day it was.
We look forward to working with Hillsgrove again in the future.
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