CHILDREN at Daisychain have been learning that harvest is a celebration of crops, fruit and vegetables grown on the land, and that Harvest Festival is marked in churches during September or early October right across the world; America calls it Thanksgiving.
The children learnt that many of our customs come from many, many years ago, including singing hymns, decorating churches and making corn dollies for decorating supper tables.
More recently it has become custom for food to be distributed to elderly or poorer members of the community.
During the harvest period Shona Hood, Shaw and Whitley’s village vicar visited Daisychain to talk about harvest and listen to some of the children’s favourite harvest songs. The children showed Shona the food that their families had donated and later in the week Melksham Food Bank came to collect the food and explained to the children that the food would be given to families that didn’t always have enough money to buy food.
