Class 1 – 6 Makuru Winter Festival In order for our festival to be a success we require the assistance of all classes.  Class carers will be calling for assistance in the following areas before the end of this week so please assist by volunteering where you can.  Many thanks.

All Families – Please provide greenery, flowers and fruit for decorating our spiral.  Staff will create the spiral on Thursday afternoon after work so please deliver greenery from Wednesday, up until 3pm on Thursday.  This year our spiral will be on the grassed area between all the classes.  Please deliver your greenery to this central area, on the grass in front of and between class 4/5 & 6 and Class 1 & 2.

Bring you own cup/bowl/spoon for soup.

Class 6 Parents – lay out the lanterns, with candles in them,  from the hall to the spiral, in the spiral and on the lantern walk and fairy houses.

Class 4/5 Parents – light the lanterns for the walk and spiral at the end of soup in the classrooms.

Class 1 Parents – lighting the lanterns of the children as they emerge from the hall, before setting off on the spiral & lantern walk.  Each class will have a table holding their lanterns.  The school will provide firelighters for parents to use.

Class 2 & 3 Parents – Ensure all the lanterns are out at the end of the festival.  Clean away the spiral greenery and pack up the lanterns, storing them away for next year.  (Much of this can be done on the Saturday, in daylight.)

Each class – allocate volunteers to do soup/bread/butter through Class Carers.

Makuru Winter Festival Program

5.30pm  Soup in classrooms.

6.00pm   Story in the Hall followed by whole school song - High and Blue the Sky.

6.20pm  Classes file out, class by class, all singing Fairies of the Candle Flame, while they have their lantern candles lit.  Class 6 to lead the way to the spiral.

6.30pm  Head to the Spiral Walk.  As classes move from the carpark to the oval and into the school grounds we ask that all talking stops.  Staff will be positioned around the spiral, singing Deep and Dark.  The spiral and lantern walk is a time of inner reflection so we ask that there be no talking at this time.  During the walking of the spiral, focus on the singing that you hear and as you walk the lantern walk to admire the fairy houses, remember to maintain the quiet, reverent and reflective mood so as not to frighten the fairy folk.  As you emerge from the forest and the lantern walk, join around the spiral again singing Deep and Dark until everyone has finished the lantern walk.

7.00pm  Move to the bonfire for Class 6 to light it.

As the bonfire is lit - 

Whole school sings   Rise Up O Flame!

Senior choir sings     Dark of the Moon

Whole school sings   Banksia Bright

                                       Campfire Song

                                       Ah Poor Bird

                                       Midwinter Song

                                       Sacred Fire

Staff choir sings        Blackbird

Whole school sings   Universal Love

7.30pm  Families depart for the weekend.