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.

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.

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 24th February

Year Three Detectives.

There was no reply to the message left by Mrs Hague. The visitor had not returned.
Today, the children of Year Three brought in a number of books about dragons. We collected a large number of questions which we need to find the answers to. Perhaps Drac was short for Draco, part of the latin name given to many different types of dragon.

We had not been able to find out much about anyone called George. We had been able to find out about St George and we listened to the legend of "St George and the dragon".
Then Elliot found one of the books had a boy named George in it. So we listened to that story. The book was called "The Dragon Machine."

In the afternoon, the class had a dance lesson where they were able to imagine moving and flying as dragons.

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.