KIngs School Bruton, gingerbread exhibition based on local town attracts huge media interest
The brief to GCSE and A Level Home Economics students at King’s Bruton in Somerset was an appetising one: recreate landmarks of Bruton, instructed their teacher, Rose Vigers-Belgeonne, in gingerbread.
The results were edifying, not to say edible.
With Christmas only a few weeks away, the exhibition captured the imagination of the media, bringing a plethora of film crews, reporters and photographers to King’s. BBC Radio Somerset and BBC TV Points West went to town – literally – with the Points West reporter walking around Bruton tracing the likeness between well-known architectural landmarks and their gingerbread counterparts.
The landmarks included the Dovecote (a familiar feature overlooking Bruton); New House, one of the King’s boarding Houses; St Mary’s Church (where King’s hold their weekly church services) and the Packhorse Bridge.
Mrs Vigers-Belgeonne said: “I was delighted by the way the students worked in this great Bruton Bake-Off. The idea was to re-create as many Bruton landmarks as possible. The display looked fantastic with flickering lights lighting up the stained glass windows, together with sparkling frost and snow on the roof tops.”