Half-term fun: Scarecrows from King’s at Tatton Park
Boris Johnson isn’t just a man of straw to King’s Infant pupils, he’s a true Covid hero ready to be displayed at the Tatton Park Scarecrow Festival.
During May, pupils in the Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 classes have been building their own scarecrows to answer a call for help from the Knutsford stately home. When Tatton’s customary Scarecrow Festival at the end of February had to be cancelled, they made an appeal to King’s and other schools to design and create some Pandemic Superheroes for the rearranged festival over the May/June half-term holiday.
Alongside the Prime Minister, the children chose their own Principal, Mrs Rachel Cookson, and Infant and Junior School secretaries Bev Ault and Sally Raw-Rees.
King’s Reception Teacher Cecilia O’Doherty said: “It gave us the opportunity to have a good chat about who had done what for us during the Covid crisis and we all felt the Prime Minister deserved a big thank you.” Cecilia added: “Then we felt our Principal Mrs Cookson and office heroes Bev and Sally also deserved some praise for having worked so hard to keep us all going.”
King’s Year Two pupil Edward Marsden-Smith summed up the fun when asked just what Boris Johnson did for a living, he answered with a grin: “He’s a scarecrow of course.”
