GALLERY - Sleaford area schools celebrate Queen's Platinum Jubilee

Pupils of Billingborough Primary School at their Jubilee celebration event.

Kirkby La Thorpe School linked up with UK schools in the St Paul’s Cathedral ‘Choir for The Queen’ to sing the National Anthem then enjoyed a playground street party. They painted portraits of the Queen, made royal biscuits and made crowns. They then planted an oak tree donated by the Friends of the School.

Pupils at Billingborough held a street party, while Caythorpe children decorated a Jubilee banner with hand prints. St Botolph’s School, Quarrington played party games and did dances from decades of the Queen’s reign.

Chestnut Street School at Ruskington had a street party lunch, making items including crowns, bracelets, flags, keyrings and plant pots for an after school fair and cake contest. At Winchelsea School, every class did crafting and baking followed by a picnic party, each child leaving with a gift book and commemorative coin.