Flour Babies!

In class, we have earned about relationships and the changes that occur during puberty. These changes are ultimately about the body developing into that of an adult.

The flour baby project links in with this. The aim is to show that, even if the body has changed and matured, it does not necessarily mean you are ready to become a parent. Even without the expenses, the need to change dirty nappies or wake in the night to feed them, their flour baby must be cared for AT ALL TIMES, cannot be left alone and infringes on a social life!

Please encourage your children to take it seriously, in order for the learning points to be reinforced. Attached below is a set of rules introduced to the children this afternoon. We will be indebted to you if you can ensure your child is following them at home - only 2 hours of babysitting per day by someone other than the 'new parent'.

If you really want to get into the spirit (as some parents have done over the last few years), please feel free to wake your child in the night, so they can 'change' or 'feed' the baby - just to get that authentic experience. Think of it as pay-back for when they were a baby and kept you up!!!

Finally, we encourage the children to take the babies out, again to further demonstrate how a parent must be on their toes at all times, with not a moment to themselves. Visits to the beach, park or for an extra-curricular club or hobby are ideal. Please email any photos of these (or other events such as reading bedtime stories) to the class teachers, so we can print them for their diary entries.

Thanks for your support!