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staticgirl Following my fish Joined: 12 Oct 2003 Total posts: 478 Location: Hertfordshire Age: 41 Gender: Female |
 Posted: 13-09-2013 12:47 Post subject: Children investigate spaceship crash at school |
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Best day at school ever for some. A bit frightening for others...
| Quote: | PUPILS arriving at a York primary school today had a close encounter - when they found an alien craft crash-landed in their playground.
Youngsters starting their day at Clifton with Rawcliffe school this morning were met by police tape, a NASA investigation unit and a small silver craft billowing smoke and resting on the grass opposite the main entrance to the school.
The scenes were part of an elaborate stunt arranged as part of a day-long exercise to test the youngsters’ investigative skills and to fuel their imaginations as part of a school-wide topic looking at space, said head teacher Chris Wigley.
The craft itself was made by three teaching assistants and the production also involved local police, The Press coming along to investigate and report on the 'crash' and a BBC cameraman in the shape of BBC Look North presenter Phil Bodmer, whose son attends the school.
Drama pupils from the nearby Canon Lee secondary school were also drafted in to play the parts of NASA staff and eye-witnesses, including 14-year-olds Isobel Liptrott and Rachel Wilkinson.
Beverley Wright, deputy head teacher at Clifton with Rawcliffe, was among those claiming to have seen a green man leave the ship and make his way into the building, and children were captivated by the drama.
Five-year-old Dominic Proctor said: “I think it came from space and the man went into the woods. We have to look around to find him. He is green I think he’s an alien.”
Nine-year-old Louis Yeomans, said: “I have really only just come into school and there are a lot of people coming up to me saying aliens have crash landed and that there’s aliens in school. I don’t know what to believe.”
Charlotte Dyson, eight, said: “The aliens must have come from another planet with air, oxygen and water, if they didn’t then they wouldn’t be able to survive here.”
Leah Howell, nine, said: “I was staying at my grandma’s house which backs on to the school and when we woke up my grandma told me to come to the window and look at the smoke coming from the playground. It’s really weird. I didn’t know what was going on.” |
Charlotte Dyson sounds like a born scientist.
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10674098.Children_investigate__spaceship_crash__at_York_primary_school/ |
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| TangletwigsDeux Yeti Joined: 06 May 2009 Total posts: 62 Location: The Shire Age: 50 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 13-09-2013 13:40 Post subject: |
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How cool ! Id almost go back to being a technician if i could help open kids minds like that  |
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| Posted: 13-09-2013 13:56 Post subject: |
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| Strangely, I think that we might already have a thread on a very similar exercise, somewhere. |
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| Fluttermoth Mrs Treguard
Great Old One Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Total posts: 398 Location: Cornwall, GB Age: 43 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 13-09-2013 13:57 Post subject: |
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Oh, that's fantastic!
What a brilliant idea, I hope other schools do similar things in the future (as long as they don't all do crashed saucers!). |
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| TangletwigsDeux Yeti Joined: 06 May 2009 Total posts: 62 Location: The Shire Age: 50 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 13-09-2013 15:34 Post subject: |
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Actually I do remember when I was a technician we used to have an induction where the junior school kids about to move to big school would spend a day touring different departments, and we used to do a kidnapping forensic mystery in science.
Chemistry was an ink chromatogram from the ransom note, Biology was fingerprints on a door and for the life of me I cant remember what we did for Physics, might have been shoe depressions. All the kids got Forensic Detective certificates at the end of the day. Used to love setting that all up 
Edit, somehow Ransom became a classic childrens author. |
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| HenryFort Bad Craziness - Wide Asleep at the Wheel
Joined: 23 Oct 2005 Total posts: 927 Location: UK Again Age: 43 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 13-09-2013 18:59 Post subject: |
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this could belong in the weird school test thread
fortean daughter had recent less elaborate version
now she wants the crashed spaceship version ... |
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| Ronnor Yeti Joined: 23 Oct 2009 Total posts: 82 Gender: Unknown |
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| Simon Grey Joined: 12 Aug 2009 Total posts: 23 Location: Jersey, Channel Islands Age: 44 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 16-09-2013 15:18 Post subject: Re: Children investigate spaceship crash at school |
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| staticgirl wrote: |
Charlotte Dyson sounds like a born scientist.
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Well, shes done ok so far with those vacum cleaners! |
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| JamesWhitehead Piffle Prospector Joined: 02 Aug 2001 Total posts: 5779 Location: Manchester, UK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 16-09-2013 16:12 Post subject: |
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I did a version of this scenario in the the very first lesson I did during teacher training. It did not require any props or planted physical witnesses - just a few chums acting on a cassette tape. My notes say it went down well, though there was no mass-exodus from Wrexham. By the end of the week, that and my give-away college scarf had assured I was known as Doctor Who!
Sp: Docter! Sp! |
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