With royal wedding parties, blinged-up bikes, mini-me brides and grooms, songs they've written themselves and loads of cake, that's how
Up and down the land, schools are celebrating the royal wedding – here's just some of what they're up to.
• Teacher Chloe Furniss tells us that the 29 reception children at St Thomas's C of E primary school in north Kensington, London, have staged a wedding in the church next door.
"Our wedding started at 10, parents were invited to come and witness the joining together in mock-holy matrimony of two of my little darlings – Ella French-Thomas and Shekai Diedrick.
Afterwards, we're having photographs taken in the park with 'both sides of the family' before we head back to school for a special wedding breakfast, and to cut the cake.
Our playground 'street party' will take place under Wills and Kate bunting. There will be flowers, treats, flags – and rocking party tunes."
• Our original story about schools and the royal wedding mentioned ACS Cobham international school whose music teacher Bill Noce wanted his pupils, who come from all over the world, to create something "that would help them remember being in England when the wedding happened". Here they are singing the royal wedding song they composed together.
• The aptly named Maggie Teachen writes:
"I am a reception teacher at Bickerstaffe C.E primary which is a small, rural school near Ormskirk. Our wedding was at 11.00 am, at Holy Trinity Church, Bickerstaffe, exactly 24 hours before William and Kate's wedding.
We had a bride, groom, best man, chief bridesmaid, 10 bridesmaids, flowergirl, ring bearer, parents of the bride and groom, ushers, four readers, eight photographers and two wedding planners.
We had a minister, organist, choir, church bells, chauffeur driven wedding cars, the 'kilted piper', donations of wedding cake, wedding rings. Parents and professionals within the community provided workshops on making invitations, bouquets, button holes, table centre-pieces, favours.
As well as learning about traditional Christian weddings, the children have learned about weddings from other cultures and religions. We recently held a Hindu wedding to compare and contrast. The children enjoyed having mhendi patterns painted on their hands and dancing to bhangra music."
• Year Four children at St John's Catholic primary school, Gravesend, and their music teacher, Martin Smyth, have spent the last four months writing an opera with the royal wedding as its theme. The opera is going into production this week and will be performed at the school in late June. Smyth says:
"It will be a retrospective look at what really happened in the run-up to Kate and William's marriage. The plot involves the shocking kidnapping of Kate Middleton by some envious employees within the royal household the night before the wedding.
Street kids from opposing gangs in the neighbourhood become united through the intercession of a very special lady, the spirit of Princess Diana, and rescue Kate in time for the big day. This earns them seats in the VIP section at Westminster Abbey."
• EducationGuardian editor Alice Woolley says that Reigate Priory junior school in Surrey gave its annual "Bling your Bike" competition a royal twist, with children invited to deck out their bikes and scooters with finery fit for a prince or princess.
The instructions to parents said:
"Your child is invited to dress up their bike/scooter in any way that they feel reflects royalty. Remember that all bikes/scooters must be able to be steered and stopped safely and it is important a bike/scooter lock is provided. Other than that, anything goes!"
• Take a listen to budding singer songwriter from Chetham's School of Music, Benjamin Larham, 17, who has composed a song in honour of the royal wedding.
• Brilliantly, school ITC manager Simon Haughton sent us a link to the website of Parkfield school "in the appropriately named town of Middleton" that held a big playground party before it broke up for the holidays. It's website says:
"The children came to school wearing: red, white and blue clothes and the staff decorated everywhere with lots of colourful bunting and flags.
Everyone worked together as a big team to help make the event such a huge success and we must thank everybody who kindly donated: sandwiches, crisps, biscuits and cakes to help create a buffet fit for a (future) king."
• Woodford Green primary school in Waltham Forest baked royal fairycakes.
• We're told that Bucklesham school in Suffolk is entertaining local over-60s today by staging a royal wedding play, featuring William, Kate, Harry, Charles and, yes, the Queen. There's quite a flurry when an intruder raises an objection and the Queen has Charles turf him out. William (Alex Page) says: "I think the over-60s will love it."
So it's obvious teachers and pupils have been working hard on their wedding-themed events. But have parents got off lightly?
EducationGuardian writer Janet Murray says:
"My daughter's school has asked to send in a home-baked royal wedding cupcakes. They will be judged by the children and the best will win a prize. Aside from the fact, I am rubbish at baking, how exactly am I supposed to find the time to do that!"
And Kate Edgley says she received this text from her son's school, Stanford junior school in Brighton, yesterday:
"Dear Parent. This is a reminder that the lunch menu is different tmrw due to celebrating the royal wedding. It is wholemeal breaded cod or quorn hot dog. Office."
Big thanks to Janet Murray for getting in touch with several of these schools.