Kilgraston boarders Easter weekend 2021

Kilgraston boarders Easter weekend 2021

Kilgraston boarders kicked off their Easter weekend with an energetic zoom Bollywood dancing session organised by Kilgraston’s drama teacher, Miss Smith. It was part of the OnFife Spring Fesitval 2021 and was led by Edinburgh based dance teacher, Tanwi Bhattacharya.

Inspired by Holi – the Hindu festival of colours – Tanwi led us through a series of short routines with some classic Bollywood Dance moves. It was great fun and the Mater boarders got to learn about a new style of dance.

But of course, Easter wouldn’t be complete without an egg hunt and so in the afternoon, Miss. Smith organised an Easter Egg Hunt for the Mater boarders. Each team had six cryptic clues to find which would send them to a location such as the tennis courts (“What a lovely place to eat strawberries and cream!”), the front of school (“I want six pillars outside of my front door”) or the forest (“Red tape? Is there a VIP nearby?”). Once they had reached their location, they then had to look for a plastic wallet with one or two plastic eggs and a clue to their next location.

With all six wallets and clues collected, the teams ran back to Miss Smith  to collect their first, second, third, and fourth place prizes – a bag of chocolate eggs of various sizes and their choice of Easter Egg to share amongst the team. So, who was victorious…?

In first place, the Green Team (Ana, Valentine, Montse, Greta, Maria, and Martina) with the Blue Team (Ambika, Maria, Maddie, Maddie, Erin, Anais, and Maia) came an incredibly close second. The Yellow Team (Emma, Lilly, Jemima, Amalia, Antonia, and Clara) was third and last but not least (and with a little bit of help from the Easter Bunny), the Orange Team (Kelly, Esma, Jenny, Maggie, and Meteor).

Afterwards, it was lovely to see the teams enjoying the early Spring sunshine and sharing their winnings!