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Greetings from Red Oak Primary School

30 May, 2023

It was lovely to meet the whole of Year 5 at Red Oak Primary – and fantastic to see all the wonderful postcards they made, ready to invite friends and family to the First Light Festival Parade on Saturday 17th June.

The session started with a whistle-stop tour of Lowestoft as a popular seaside resort from Victorian times up until the mid-60’s, courtesy of Suffolk Archives and their online educational resources.

After that, the children set to, making elaborate and highly imaginative postcards, some of which are featured below.

There was even time to make a classroom-length of sea-themed bunting and leave copies of our Greetings from Lowestoft Bunting Guide for the children to use when they come back from their half term holidays.

A collaged postcard with blue patterned paper overlaid with cartoon tape and a cut-out cartoon character

Postcard cartoon characters

A plain brown postcard with cut out letters in sand-coloured paper spelling the words FIRST LIGHT over blue and green paper shapes

Come to First Light Festival

A postcard covered in yellow-gold coloured paper with red triangular shapes and strips of paper folded as concertinas

3D postcard

A collaged postcard depicting a large yellow sun in top left corner with sky, clouds and two gulls above a pink latticed paper, resembling the ridges left in the sand when the tide goes out

Sea gulls and sand ridges

A collaged postcard made with a variety of blue and green patterned papers, thin tape and a piece of pink latticed card. A snippet from a vintage postcard showing the pier and statue of Titan is bottom right.

Beside the seaside

This collaged postcard has a bottom section of yellow card, with brown ink dots, and a top section created with faux-black snake skin paper. The middle section of the card has a blue background, overlaid with black squares and ink lines in green, red, and magenta. The card has a gold border

Beyond the beach

A collaged postcard with an image of sea and sky created with lots of tiny bits of blue paper, details picked out with hand-drawn lines in black and blue. Scraps of yellow and gold paper create a beach effect along the bottom of the card and the whole is bordered in thin tapes of dark blue, red and gold

All at sea

Bright Festival

This collaged postcard is primarily blue in colour, with a sparkly blue paper along the bottom, overlaid with dark blue and gold tape and small silver shapes. The card is bordered in the same blue and gold tape and the corners have been cut off to create an 8-sided card

Cutting corners

A pair of hands holding a postcard, collaged with a variety of papers in pinks and blues, some with images of palm trees and bordered with a thin gold tape

Hand made postcard

A collaged postcard covered in snippets of paper, overlaid with thin white and gold tape, thicker cartoon tape and cut-out patterns in which the paper rises up from the surface of the card

Drawing the lines

A postcard collaged with a background of paper showing compasses, globes and the words Great Adventure, overlaid with blue patterned papers, some of them folded like concertinas to represent waves

Adventures in blue

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‘When I started I never thought I'd make something like this. I'm really surprised and pleased with what I've made’

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