St Edmund evening – a child’s view.

One of the nicest bits of being a community pub is involving the whole community.

David has already posted about the pub’s view of our very successful celebration of St Edmund – but when we took the shields down, which the school had made to decorate the pub, we got the children’s view 🙂

Every child in Bentley Primary had painted a shield. We got a very funny description of the lesson that Tony (a.k.a. Sir Cumference) had given them – “He barged into the classroom in a night shirt [well, a mediaeval smock – ed] and yelled out that he needed ladies to dress him…”; and every child we’ve talked to had a wonderful time, exploring his knight’s dress, armour, and weapons. But it turns out that Tony had successfully taught them about much more than the hardware.

What we discovered when we took the shields down was that many of the children had written on the back why they’d chosen the colours and devices they’d painted. Some of the littlest children’s answers were just plain cute – but the older ones had clearly picked up on chivalry and honour, pride and courage. Here are some of our favourites…