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Flour Babies

This week your children will be bringing home a flour baby.   They will be responsible for caring for it (as if it were their own baby) from Tuesday 21st – Friday 24th June.  To be successful they will need to follow the following set of rules very carefully.

 

  1. The flour babies must be kept clean and dry at all times.  All fraying, staining and leakage of insides will be taken very seriously indeed.
  2. Flour babies will be weighed twice - once at the beginning and one at the end of the project - to check for any weight loss that might indicate casual neglect or mistreatment.
  3. No flour baby may be left unattended at any time, night or day.  If you must be out of sight of your flour baby, even for a short time, a responsible babysitter must be arranged.  A babysitter can look after your flour baby for a maximum of 2 hours per day.
  4. You must keep a daily record of your time with your flour baby (You can do this in your English lesson). Please make sure however that you take photographs/pictures to record key moments at home and bring them into school to add to your writing at the end of the week.
  5. Certain persons (who shall not be named until the experiment is over) shall make it their business to check on the welfare of the flour babies and the keeping of the above rules.  These people maybe parents, other pupils, teachers or the public.

We are hoping the project will teach them vital life skills such as: responsibility, patience and the need to put others first. We look forward to your support with this project – especially when enforcing rule number 5. Whilst the baby is at home, feel free to simulate realistic scenarios such as, the baby waking in the night to be changed or fed.  Be as cruel as you like J

Please also send them in with pics or feel free to email us your photos daily so that they can include them in their written work.

jon.williams@ramsgateartsprimaryschool.co.uk

andrew.beraet@ramsgateartsprimaryschool.co.uk

Many thanks for your help with this.

Mr Beraet and Mr Williams