During the South Wootton Infant School Diamond Jubilee celebrations, Year One teacher Stewart Spooner with pupils (from left) Isobel Easthall, Freddie Burt, Bethany Moore, Jay Auker, Mia Townshend and Alex Loft. Picture: Ian Burt

South Wootton students enjoy street party

By DAVID BLACKMORE Saturday, June 2, 2012
2:42 PM

Pupils at South Wootton Infant School enjoyed a street party in their playground to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee yesterday.

Borough Mayor Geoffrey Wareham with South Wootton Infant School pupils (from left) Niamh McGuire, Theodore Dent, Hazel Wilson and Freddie Burt during their Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Picture: Ian Burt

Some 170 pupils joined their teachers and other school staff in eating their lunch outside on tables decorated in Union Jacks.

West Norfolk mayor Geoffrey Wareham later visited the school to present commemorative coins to pupils, aged between five and seven, for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

Headteacher Jo Davenport said: “The children loved it because they were dressed up and got to go outside to have their lunch. They were really excited when they came out to see all the decorated tables.”