TWO SADDLEWORTH schoolchildren were delighted to receive treasured Blue Peter badges after getting hands on for the popular programme.
Tom Ward from Diggle and Lily Edmunds from Delph were among a class from Heathfield School – the junior school for Rishworth – invited to take part in the show which aired on Thursday, July 9.
The class made the trip to Liverpool to see the new Dazzle Ferry on the Mersey Ferry Crossing with Blue Peter presenter Lindsey Russell.
As part of Lindsey’s feature about the Dazzle Ferry, she donned a white boiler suit and asked the children to paint her in the same colours and style of Sir Peter Blake, the artist who recently designed the new Dazzle Ferry.
At the end of the filming a Blue Peter badge was presented to each of the children, as well as teacher Sandra Kiy and teaching assistant Sophie Gaynor.
Ms Kiy explained: “I was doing a project about the sea with my class and had booked the Mersey ferry trip along with a visit to the lifeboat rescue centre in new Brighton.
“It just happened the ferry trip coincided with the day and time that Blue Peter were filming which is how we were invited to participate. The children did a fantastic job.
“That day there was a massive accident on the M62 so it took us four and a half hours to get to Liverpool! By the time we got there I felt like I’d earned a Blue Peter badge!”
You must be logged in to post a comment.