The Reception and year one classes at Eccleston Primary School performed a celebration of The Gruffalo at the end of last term.

Eccleston Primary School Pupils perform the Gruffalo dance

The children had read the book as their topic for the term.

They took part in three performances to the rest of the school, the governors and parents and then did a separate show for local pre-schools Benisons, St Mary’s and Leaps and Bounds.

The children acted out the play, did a Gruffalo dance and made Gruffalo cakes for their visitors to eat. As part of their work on The Gruffalo they also went out into Eccleston Woods to hunt for the mouse, and all the other characters, and did a Gruffalo quiz and nature trail.

The director of Upton Dramatic Society, who watched one of the performances, said: “My congratulations to you and class 1 for a lovely production of the Gruffalo.

“I loved the owls, foxes, snakes, mice and Gruffalos. The narrators told a lovely story too.

“Please tell the children how much I enjoyed it and I was quite scared when the nasty Gruffalo came out from behind the tree. I was going to boo but thought he would come and eat me I liked the snake crawling back to his log pile.

“If all that excitement wasn’t enough I then had a lovely decorated Gruffalo cake.”