Staff Get Involved In Pancake Competition

Mrs C P Skewes
February 25, 2016

Pancake Day, or Shrove Tuesday, is the traditional feast day before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Lent - the 40 days leading up to Easter - was traditionally a time of fasting and on Shrove Tuesday, Anglo-Saxon Christians went to confession and were "shriven" (absolved from their sins). A bell would be rung to call people to confession. This came to be called the “Pancake Bell” and is still rung today.

To celebrate this traditional feast day Staff at Cornelius Vermuyden School took part in a pancake competition.

The winners:
Mr Durrance won the best flipping competition
PE department the highest stack
Senior Leadership Team- best decorated pancake.

Well done to all staff who took part - a fantastic event.


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