A DAY of celebration for Elmley Castle First school was tinged with sadness for headteacher Elizabeth Humphrey.
This year's traditional Oak Apple Day festivities was her last, as she is due to retire in July.
Last Friday's fun and games took place in glorious sunshine and young May Queen Megan Tallis presented Mrs Humphrey with a bouquet of roses to mark the occasion.
The school has marked Oak Apple Day each year since 1893 but, even before then, the village marked the occasion by decorating a Maypole with flowers which children then danced around. That tradition is still continuing.
Schoolchildren entertained parents and passers-by with a series of dances, which followed the crowning of Megan as the May Queen.
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