Crafting Seawigs with St Mary's C.E. Primary School

As the festival draws even closer, class 5M of St Mary’s CE Primary School are working away on their Seawigs for the Parade at the Festival Family Fun Day.

The amount of materials the children were presented with would overwhelm anyone, but they got stuck in straight away, sharing all the crafts and helping one another fix all the parts together. They filled plastic fish with coloured sand, made trees and food from paper, stuck jewellery and even sunglasses on the wigs to channel the sea theme. 

Our MCBF volunteers were on hand to help with any glitter or glue related emergencies, and provided recycled cardboard and plastic to add to the mountain of materials. As always, the class were a delight and so creative - we were very impressed by all of their ideas. Many of the pupils went as far to make necklaces and chains to match their wigs! 

Next week the children will be visiting the Powerhouse Library to practice the parade, finish their wigs and to have a reading from Oliver and the Seawigs book itself.

Crafting Seawigs with St Mary's C.E. Primary School

MMU Volunteers at St Mary's C.E. Primary School

Preparation for the Family Fun Day on June 28th has commenced! The stars of the Seawig Parade, from St Mary’s C.E. Primary School, have started to create their Seawigs for the big day. Debra Conroy from Community and Cultural Services at Manchester City Council will lead the creative sessions along with the extremely talented Ann Lam and Manchester Metropolitan University volunteers Colette, Rachel and Rosie. 

On Friday 6th June, class 5M designed their Seawigs with colourful pictures and labels shown in the picture below. There were so many fantastic ideas, from diamonds and treasure, to goggles and seaweed hair. The children will be using decorations provided by Manchester City Council and recycled materials to bring their drawings to life. The classroom was a hive of activity, we can’t wait to see how sun hats and starfish will look on the blue and green curly wigs the children will model in the parade at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Class 5M will also be writing book reviews on Oliver and the Sea Monkeys as part of their homework assignments. You will be able to read many of the reviews here – so be sure to keep an eye out for more of St Mary’s wonderful work!