Nocton Primary School

I have received the following information from Nocton Primary School about their preparations for the Diamond Jubilee.

Diamond Jubilee

We would like to let you know about some of Nocton Primary School preparations for the Diamond Jubilee and to ask you for some help.

Jubilee Crown

Working with Mr Cliff Baxendale, Nocton artist and leader of Nocton Art Group and also working with ArtsNK, we will be creating a 4 foot square crown made from natural materials.  The crown will be displayed on Nocton village green during the Jubilee celebrations.  The design of the crown is inspired by designs made every child in the school.  These designs will also be printed onto celebration banners.

We will need your help to collect the woodland materials needed to make the crown.

• On Sunday 13^th May at 2.30 children and adults are invited to join a foraging party led by Mr Baxendale.  Bring along a carrier bag and a pair of secateurs.  Meet at the school front gate.
• On Monday 28^th May, Tuesday 29^th May and Wednesday 30th May you are invited to come to school to start to assemble the crown.  All you’ll need is a smile – and garden secateurs again.  The sessions will run from 3pm until 4pm each day and will take place in the school garden – weather permitting.  We will work inside if necessary. 

Jubilee Bunting

Also……  The village will be decorated with home made bunting for the celebrations.  It is intended that the bunting will be made from recycled materials (old clothes, sheets, curtains and perhaps even coloured plastic bags) or from any other suitable materials. 

There will be bunting workshops every Saturday from 4^th May at The Hub in Sleaford and also in school from 2 – 4 on Monday 23^rd April, when Jane Harrison from Arts NK will be coming to share her skills.  Please bring a pair of fabric scissors and any old material which we can cut up to make flags.

To decorate the front of school it would be very eye catching to have red and yellow gold bunting.  We could do this by dying old sheets.  If you have any that you could donate to us we would put them to good celebratory use. 

We would also like to help the village to collect other fabrics to turn into bunting.  Any old shirts, dresses, quilt covers etc, etc which are now past their best can be dropped off at school.  Any colours, any patterns.  As old as you like!

If you have any photos of you, your family or parts of the village taken in the past six years, please bring them on a cd.  We would like to use your photographs to print on to flags for the Queen’s Jubilee Celebrations.  Jane Harrison will also be taking a group of people on a walk around the village to take more photographs.  Please bring your own digital camera.

Any queries or further information required please contact Mrs A Priestley at Nocton School on Tel: 01526 320234.

Nocton Community School News

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