<p> My Flour Baby Diary</p><p>© Original resource copyright Hamilton Trust, who give permission for it to be adapted as wished by individual users Y6 - Sc – Human Reproduction & Relationships - Session D1 Date My Flour Baby</p><p>Name</p><p>Date of birth</p><p>Date</p><p>Descripti on</p><p>© Original resource copyright Hamilton Trust, who give permission for it to be adapted as wished by individual users Y6 - Sc – Human Reproduction & Relationships - Session D1 Date Date</p><p>Date Date</p><p>© Original resource copyright Hamilton Trust, who give permission for it to be adapted as wished by individual users Y6 - Sc – Human Reproduction & Relationships - Session D1 © Original resource copyright Hamilton Trust, who give permission for it to be adapted as wished by individual users Y6 - Sc – Human Reproduction & Relationships - Session D1 Dear Parents/Carers,</p><p>Flour Babies</p><p>As part of our Human Reproduction and Relationships Science Strand your child is bringing home a ‘Flour Baby’ to look after for a week. This challenge is based on the book called Flour Babies written by Anne Fine in which the boys in a class are given a bag of flour each to look after as if it is a baby.</p><p>We would like this experience to be as authentic as possible for your child and hope you will encourage them to treat the bag of flour like a newborn baby, with all the responsibilities and tasks that entails. We have agreed a set of ground rules in class:</p><p> a) The Flour Baby must be brought to school each day; b) The Flour Baby must be kept safe, warm, clean and fed (in other words time should be put aside for ‘changing their nappies, giving them a bottle, bathing them’, etc); c) The Flour Baby must be taken everywhere with your child unless they can find a willing babysitter.*</p><p>It is perfectly acceptable for the Flour Baby to be dressed in dolls’ clothes or baby clothes and it can be brought to school in a doll’s pushchair, baby sling, etc.</p><p>Your child has been asked to keep a diary to record the experience of looking after their ‘baby’. They can describe what they have done for and with their ‘baby’ as well as describing their feelings about the responsibility. Some opportunities will be given in school to keep this up to date, but your child can complete it at home if they wish.</p><p>Thank you very much for supporting us in this challenge which we hope will enable your child to understand what looking after a baby really means.</p><p>Please feel free to contact the class teacher (insert name here instead) if you have any concerns or queries.</p><p>Yours faithfully,</p><p>* adjust as necessary</p><p>© Original resource copyright Hamilton Trust, who give permission for it to be adapted as wished by individual users Y6 - Sc – Human Reproduction & Relationships - Session D1</p>