Flour Babies

The task for the children is to care for a flour baby as if it was a baby of their own. Hopefully, it will show how much responsibility it takes to look after a baby - and these ones do not even require nappy changes, feeding or burping.

We actively encourage parents / guardians to make it as realistic as possible by waking your child (the new parent) in the night 'for a feed'.

Children (or parents as they now are) have been instructed that they can only have two hours of childcare per day. For the rest of the time, they must have their flour babies with them at all times.

All 'babies' were weighed today and will be weighed again next Monday. If there is lots of tape, there will clearly be a change in weight, which suggests neglect and poor parenting.

Flour babies do not need to be taken on transition days to secondary schools, but should go everywhere else with their 'parents'. Each day in school, the children will be writing diary entries about their experiences, so please take pictures and email them to us so we can print them and put them in their diary entries.