Spoiling our fun!

On Monday Morning, the writing area was cetainly generating a lot of discussion, but unfortunately, for the wrong reasons. During the weekend, some destructive individuals had decided to destroy as much of the area as they could... smashing all our plant pots, breaking our benches and ripping the children's work off the tree and fences! It's nice to see how the community shows their appreciation for all our hard work!

One boy just asked me, "Why?" and it was very hard to answer him. Here are just a few comments the children made...
"Why would anyone do that?"
"Why did they want to spoil it?"
"It's really unfair!"
"What can we do now?"
"They should be ashamed!"
"They wouldn't like it if we went into their gardens and spoiled them!"
And one comment already thinking ahead to the future... "Are we going to do some more fund-raising now?"

We will, of course, do what we can to make the area special again, but it will take some time, and after seeing such willful destruction, it will never feel completely the same.

Miss Proctor

Update from 25th November.

The Southern Daily Echo also covered this story.