Another small tradition of Bonfire Night is having the Year 4 class prepare a Guy Fawkes for the school’s event at Bay Bistro. As part of their Let’s Celebrate! topic, our Flamingo Class went all-out to make a full-size Guy. The class put so much into their project that many felt a little sad to see him sitting on top of the burning fire!
The class were challenged to make a Guy using only materials that would have been available 400 years ago, when Guy Fawkes and his conspirators planned to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London. Not only that, but the children had to ensure that he was dressed in the correct fashion of the period. Well, our Guy needed to look good for such a big party!
After sessions of designing, planning and finding the right materials the class set about building the Guy. Many, many stitches later (!) the class were rightly proud of their creation!
After evaluating their project, these are some of the comments that children made:
“My overall feelings are that it turned out very well, but I was a bit disappointed that after all that work he just got burned!”
“I had fun making him. I also had fun watching him burn.”
“I felt sad and happy.”
“I think it was sad that we had to burn him because it took so long to make!”
“I learned that I am good at sewing!”
“I am proud about the whole think. I learned it is hard to sew at lot at one time.”
“I was overjoyed when he was burned.”
“I was devastated!”
“I thought the legs should be bigger and that shoes are hard to sew!”
“It was really fun to make.”
