AN Oswestry primary school has received a letter from King Charles III after the pupils sent him pairs of pants to match his royal duties.
A teacher from Holy Trinity C of E Primary Academy and Nursery, in Middleton Road, had a new idea to engage the children in her Clee Class as part of their Literacy topic.
Cheryl Meddins came up with the idea after the pupils had to read ‘The King’s Pants’ in class.
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She explained: “This started off by me ‘sending a parcel’ from the King to the class which contained pants inside.
“In the same parcel they got a letter explaining that King Charles only has white pants left, but he had lots of events coming up and he needed more colourful pants to match.
“The colours were red, white and blue to match before the Coronation.”
“We sent them over after the Coronation” she said.
“Then a lot of people said you always get a reply.”
She added: “Then months passed and nothing and we sort of forgot about it.
“Then boom we received the letter just last week.”
A couple of her pupils have gone one and are now in Year 1, so Mrs Meddins went up to them in their respective classes and shared the news.
“They were so excited, jumping up and down”, she added, “To be honest we all were.”
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The children all received a copy of the letter to take home and the original will be displayed at the school.
“They were all full of smiles” she continued, “And they all learned a lot about engagement, literacy and writing.”
Mrs Meddins said she’s never done anything like this before but if the opportunity arises she is happy to do it again.
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