The QUEEN’S GUARD (also called the King’s Guard when the reigning monarch is male) are the military regiments responsible for guarding the royal residences in the UNITED KINGDOM, including Buckingham Palace in London. The usual uniform of a Queen’s Guard is a red coat and tall bearskin hat.

The children worked very creatively on this project.  First they carefully painted their Union Jack background, ensuring it was symmetrical.  After that they used collage to make their Queen’s Guard before assemling it all together. I just love the expressions on their faces and how some of them have very impressive moustaches.

CINQUE TERRE, which translates into “five lands” is a group of five island villages, featuring vibrantly coloured homes in northwestern Italy. The landscape of the islands is steep and rugged with rocky cliffs. To be able to build homes on the cliffs along the coastline of the Ligurian Sea, it was necessary to build TERRACES. Terracing means cutting slopes into a series of receding, flat platforms to give a surface for buildings to be built upon. Without buildings on top, terracing resembles steps, with the widest terraced area near the bottom of the slope and the smallest terraced area at the top. SANTORINI is a popular island in Greece that was formed by volcanic eruptions. In Santorini, low cubical buildings made from local stone are built along the rocky cliffs. Many are either white or coloured with volcanic ash. The children loved creating their terraed house and as you can see the results are simply stunning….makes me wish I was going on holiday!