PUPILS at a Radcliffe primary school were given a lesson in parenthood as they adopted their own 'flour babies'.
The year six children from Chapelfield Primary, in Clough Street, were each given an A4 envelope, filled with 1kg of rice and dressed as a baby, to care for, mirroring the experiment from the famous Anne Fine novel.
The project, which required the children to keep the babies with them at all times, was intended to showcase the realities and responsibilities of being a parent.
Pupil Brandon Wilson said: "Some days were easier than others. My best experience was when we played on the swing and I could imagine my flour baby smiling and it made me feel happy. My worst experience was when it was raining; the rain was a massive hazard to my flour baby."
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