Monday 30th March

Still no visit from Drac!

Drac did not come to visit. We shall have to wait longer until Drac comes to find the plans we have made for a new home for him.

The children of Year Three have been very busy putting ideas together for a new home for Drac. They have also given details of how Drac could travel to his new home. All that remains is for Drac to decide which of the plans he prefers.

All this work was completed as homework whilst, in school the children are completing their wonderful legends. I look forward to sharing these stories on this Blog so that you can enjoy them too.

This is our latest letter. It is rather a long one again. I do hope Drac manages to answer all the questions.

Friday 27th March

A busy week - part one.

This week the children in Year Three have been busily putting the finishing touches to their dragon legends as well as writing dragon poems.

Just read these. I think you will agree that they are wonderful.

Tuesday 24th March.

Just how long is Drac's tail?

We found out that Drac's tail is much longer than his body. We looked in "Dragonology" and found out that the adult European Dragon was 45 feet long and 17 feet tall. We took 17 feet from 45 feet to find out how long the tail was. We found out that the tail was 28 feet long.
Drac isn't an adult. We know that he is half-grown. We worked out that his tail would be 14 feet long. Then we measured a long strip of paper the same size as Drac's tail. We measured this as 4m 30cm.
In the hall we laid out the strips.
Daniel told me that Drac would be 6m 90cm long if he lay down (22 feet 6 inches).

Monday 23rd March

Drac returned!

When we got into school this morning, Drac had returned. He had left us some answers to our questions too.

It took us only a few minutes to get the answers sorted out so that they went with the right questions.

Tuesday 10th March

Drac's third visit.

When I met the children on Tuesday morning they were able to tell me all about Drac's third visit. I took some photos too.

This is what they said:

"When we came in on Monday morning one of our tables had been tipped over with two chairs. There was a chocolate coin on the floor. The table that had the letter on it was pulled out with a gap in the middle.

The dragon on the radiator had been moved. It was upside-down with it's head off the radiator on Christian's box.

Drac drew a picture of himself and left it on the table with our letter. He left answers to our questions. He still wants to be our friend.

Drac wanted to know what a Tooth Fairy was. He doesn't lose his teeth like us. They grow and grow and get sharper and sharper. That's weird. Thats why he wanted to know who the Tooth Fairy is."

Today was also very special because we got a parcel from our friends in Japan.

There were sweets. Fruit flavoured.

Letters from each child in the class along with an English translation.

Maps.

The answers to some of the questions we had asked.

Along with photographs of some of their favourite foods.

Friday 6th March.

We have been busy!

Today, the class continued work on planning their own legends. They also wrote reports for the Blog. Sadly, we are not able to access our Blog at school for the moment. So the children sent email attachments containing their reports to Mrs Hague, so that she could work on the Blog at home.

We also wrote a letter to Drac, just in case he visits again this weekend.

This is our class display board. It shows all the information we have been able to collect so far.

This photo tries to show just how big our class dragon is.

Wednesday 4th March.

Our dragon now has wings!

The dragon hanging on our classroom wall now has wings.

We have now finished the rest of the body and tail of our dragon. The wings have been finished too. These were constructed by Mrs Garratt who used card. She also used drinking straws to make the ridges in the wings. A group of children from the class used sponges and cloths to sponge paint onto the wings. A mixture of black, blue and orange powder paint was used.

Now all we need to do is add the legs.

The whole class also worked today to find out where the different dragon legends come from. Believe it or not, there is a map of the world underneath all the post-it notes! We had been able to find a lot of information from around the world about dragons.

A teacher from Australia sent this wonderful link about the Bunyip, a dragonlike creature. On the site there are some marvellous stories from the aboriginal peoples about the Bunyip.

Tuesday 3rd March.

Questions and answers.



After Assembly, the morning started with the children setting our seed potatoes ready to start chitting. These are part of the competition run every year by the Potato Council. The winner is the school which produces the heaviest weight of potatoes when they are harvested in June.
The two varieties being grown this year are Rocket and Vales Emerald. There are two seed potatoes of each variety.
After chitting, our seed potatoes will be planted on Tuesday 17th March.

This morning we had a visit from our PCSO (Community Police Officer) after playtime. He very kindly came in to talk to the class about their very strange visitor and give some good advice. Listening very carefully to all the children had to say, he was told of the problems we were having in agreeing what to do about the sweets that had been left for us by Drac. Reminding the children that it was never a good idea to take anything from a stranger, we decided that it would be best for the sweets to be packaged up and returned to Drac.

Mrs Hague offered to replace the sweets herself so that the children would not be disappointed. This was generally agreed to be a good idea.

Monday 2nd March

A second visit from Drac!

On Monday, we came in and saw sandy mud on the window and a reply to our letter.Our letter said:

Dear Drac,

Please could you let us know if you are a dragon or a people like us?

Could you let us know if the sweets you are left are poisonous.

Where do you live?

If you are a dragon, can you tell us about yourself?

Can you give us a clue who George is?

What is your full name? Are you a female or a male?

Why do you want to catch George?

Are you a friend?

How old are you?

What do you like to eat?

Thank you for answering our questions.

Mrs Hague and Year Three.

I thought he would come again because last time he came it was at the weekend. Jake took a photo of the book called "The Dragon Machine" that Elsie and Elliot found. Keira took a photo of the first question sheet then Elliot took the second question sheet.

I felt a bit uncomfortable because if the tables keep on tipping over they could easily break.

Lauren G.



I felt happy when Mrs Hague read out the answer that he wanted to be friends.

Elsie.

Drac left us answers to our letter. He put a thumb print on it. Now we know he is a dragon.He left a book on the floor that was called "The Dragon Machine". He is 102 and is not a fully grown dragon. There was another table knocked over. If it was a dragon who has been leaving notes that it is quite amazing how he has only 3 fingers and he can write very neat and well.

Lauren R

Because George left the dragons in the wilderness, the drgaons are unhappy. Drac would like to be our friend.

Jake.

Drac has returned. He has left the answers. He is a half grown dragon. He is a male and likes humans. The sweets are not poisonous and he eats samll creatures but not humans. He would like to be our friend and he is 102. There was a clue of who George was and it said "He made a machine to trick us" and the dragons used to live at a place called Albion with trees and mountains. But now they live in the wilderness and they do not like it. They want George to come back to ask why he left them in a such a terrible mess. Drac could be a magic dragon so that he can go through the wall without it even breaking.

James.

As a class, we cut a long strip of paper to show just how long a full-sized dragon could be. We had read that the adult European dragon could grow to be 17 feet high. We worked out that this is the same as 4 metres 20 centimetres.

We chose the European dragon since it has a footprint very like that left by Drac.

Since Drac is only half grown he could easily be 2 metres 60 centimetres tall. This is our strip of paper. It is very long. Mrs Hague had to stand on a chair to reach the same height as Drac.

Friday 27th February.

Finding out about dragons.

Friday was a really busy day. Mrs Garratt finished off the dragons head and the children made the body by cutting out pieces of gold wallpaper and sweet wrappers. The pieces were then stuck to a long piece of wallpaper to make the body of the dragon. It now all hangs on the classroom wall.

We now just need to finish off the tail, unless the children feel that there is more we should add. I have added all their written questions about dragons around the body. One wonderful question asks

"Do dragons want revenge for what St George did?"

We also worked to put together some questions for Drac, just in case she (or he) came back over the weekend.

In the afternoon we used the internet to find out some facts about dragons. We will look at these more carefully on Monday.

Wednesday 25th February.

Still no answers.



Year Three were disappointed to find there was still no answer to Mrs Hague's message when they arrived in the morning. It was suggested that perhaps the dragon would return if we left a gift for it.
The whole class started writing reports about the strange visit of the mysterious Drac.

Monday 23rd February

A strange visit.
This morning, Year Three came into their classroom to find that a table had been tipped over and some chairs had been knocked over. The box of used ink cartridges, left in the classroom for recycling had been spilt over the floor.

On one of the tables there was a mysterious parcel. Under this, there was a piece of paper poking out.

It seemed as if there had been a break-in, but none of the windows was broken and nothing had been taken. There was a strange mark on a table, which might have been a hand or footprint.
The piece of paper under the parcel was very carefully pulled out. It was a letter, which read:

"People,

I am Drac, smallest of the dragonfolk.

Help us to find the George who left us alone in the wilderness and did not return.

He was a people like you and has been gone a long time."

It was signed by Drac.

When the parcel was carefully opened, it was found to contain jelly babies and strange chocolate coins which had the word Ghana on them. These were covered with gold and orangey-brown coloured metal.

At playtime, the children of Year Three found a lot of chalk and sand marks in the playgrounds. Some children went to try and collect some of the marks on a piece of sticky backed plastic.
Mrs Hague tried to use the sticky backed plastic to collect the strange mark in the classroom, but it did not work. She later drew a picture of the marks before they were rubbed off.
Mr Coulbeck went to look at the CCTV footage.
In the afternoon, the class spoke to Mrs Palfreyman, the caretaker to find out what she knew. She told everyone that there had been a break-in and a lot of sand and chalk had been thrown around in the Reception playground. This had happened last Wednesday. All the school had been tidied after this had happened. Year Three had been left tidy on Saturday afternoon. This meant that our visitor must have come between Saturday night and Monday morning.
Before leaving school at the end of the day, Mrs Hague laft a message in the classroom in case Drac returned.