Peterborough and Cambridgeshire schools stay open during Easter weekend - and one gets very creative!

Schools in Peterborough and Cambridgeshire stayed open during the Easter weekend.
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Good Friday saw 159 remain open, with a further 148 open on Bank Holiday Monday, to support vulnerable children or the children of key workers.

Around 30 per cent of available early year providers were working as well.

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As well as continuing to provide as much of the curriculum as possible, schools are coming up with innovative and inventive ways of keeping in touch with their communities – for instance, Stukeley Meadows Primary School in Huntingdon created a video medley featuring Queen and some familiar faces.

“The video features teachers, teaching assistants, the office team, cleaners, volunteers and governors. All were given a section to ‘perform’ and they sent these to me and I (painstakingly-ish) put them together!” said headteacher James Singleterry, who is featured in the film in a sombrero.

“Families had previously voted for the song for us to perform (Don’t Stop Me Now) so we did that initially and then broadened our horizons.”