PUPILS at ‘North Petherwin Witching and Wizarding site’ had a tasty end to their Harry Potter themed topic of study.

They recently had a Harry Potter dress up day and the children created themed food before parents were invited in for a Great Feast.

They had cupcakes which were filled with buttercream in the Harry Potter house group colours. When they bit in to the cakes, the colour told them which house group they were in! The cupcakes were complete with a toffee, which had been shaped into a sorting hat. Following the feast, parents and children enjoyed a game of pin the scar on Harry Potter and Harry Potter bingo!

Teacher Emma Godwin said: “It was a fantastic way to end a great topic which the children were engaged with and produced excellent learning.”

The topic began even before the pupils’ return to school last September, when each child received a letter from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry’s ‘North Petherwin Witching and Wizarding site’. Hogwarts is the fictional British school of magic, the primary setting for the first six books in J K Rowling’s Harry Potter series.

The letter, from Hogwarts’ own deputy headmistress Minerva McGonagall, told pupils they were identified as a ‘perfect Muggle’ — the term used in the books to describe non-wizard folk — and included was a ticket for the ‘Hogwarts Express’ train — the train students in the stories used to travel to Hogwarts.

The letter was even in the style of the letters received by students in the stories, the parchment envelope with wax seal pointing out it had been ‘delivered by owl’.