On 9th September, a historical day, small children in exceptionally smart uniforms were spilling out from Rupert House School in Henley, either absentmindedly wearing be-jewelled crowns, or casually carrying them, along with their book bags and other paraphernalia. We overheard a mum asking her small son if he knew why they had made crowns today, he thought about it and said "I've forgotten". Oh well, Liz outdoing Victoria's long reign was clearly unimportant to this chap and I suspect most of his classmates.
Having been a TA in a primary school for a short time and involved in craft projects with little ones, I was struck by the superior quality of these pieces of headwear, the raw materials of die-cut card crowns and 'proper' plastic diamonds, rubies and emeralds all neatly glued in place a far cry from the kids' I worked with efforts, who would have haphazardly cut the crown out themselves and gleefully, with much thrown-around glue, decorated it willy-nilly with anything they could get their hands on from the art cupboard: sequins, glitter, shiny fabric, plastic shapes. I know which I would be more proud of my child presenting me with. But I dare say they too would probably not have noted just why they had made one!
Having been a TA in a primary school for a short time and involved in craft projects with little ones, I was struck by the superior quality of these pieces of headwear, the raw materials of die-cut card crowns and 'proper' plastic diamonds, rubies and emeralds all neatly glued in place a far cry from the kids' I worked with efforts, who would have haphazardly cut the crown out themselves and gleefully, with much thrown-around glue, decorated it willy-nilly with anything they could get their hands on from the art cupboard: sequins, glitter, shiny fabric, plastic shapes. I know which I would be more proud of my child presenting me with. But I dare say they too would probably not have noted just why they had made one!
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