Check out these photographs of Sunderland schools enjoying a fun-filled day celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

With schools having broken up for the half-term holiday and the Platinum Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend, dozens of schools across Sunderland used Friday, May 27, to celebrate the Queen’s seven decades on the throne.

Here’s a selection of photographs showing some right royal fun as children have taken part in street parties, musical performances, art workshops and a whole host of fun games and activities as school playing fields have been transformed into temporary play parks and fair grounds.

Many pupils chose to dress for the occasion in a striking array of Union Jack themed costumes.

1. Travel back in time to the Coronation.

Fulwell Junior School pupils Emily and Charlotte Palmer, nine, with a copy of the Sunderland Echo from the day after the 1953 Coronation. Photo: Stu Norton