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Roaring Brook Pumpkins Raise the Roof on National Unity Day

Take a look at the Avon elementary school students' reaction to a surprise from above.

What makes Roaring Brook School students roar? 

Patch found out Wednesday when Assistant Principal Larry Sparks led me up three ladders for a rooftop photo-op of the student body sporting pumpkin orange for National Unity Day.

Nobody announced us or told the kids what we were doing and the plan was to take a few quick birds eye view photos. But almost immediately upon seeing us on the roof, Sparks' quiet idea sparked a chain reaction of cheers and applause from the smiling, little pumpkins in the middle of an assembly below. 

As the students' roared in unison without instruction, it was only fitting that they were celebrating National Unity Day. 

It was so precious that we had to share! 


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