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.

Monday 9th March.

Drac's third visit.

Mrs Hague was out on a course all day today. She missed the third visit!

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.

Thursday 5th March.

So sorry there is no Blog entry for today. Mrs Hague has not been in school. The class has been very busy writing plans for their own legends.

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.