After an enormous egg appeared in the grounds of Cambridge Primary School last month, pupils in prep to grade two guessed that it could contain a unicorn, a three-headed alien or a giant bird.
Another child at the Hoppers Crossing school thought that perhaps the egg might contain 200 chickens.
Staff at the school also staged a meteorite landing in the school’s playground, making it and the egg out of expanda foam.
They played loud noises just before the meteor appeared, emitting smoke.
The school went into lockdown as two scientists and a local volunteer firefighter surveyed the area to ensure that everything was safe.
Via a Webex link, the school’s assistant principal Kelly Hardy talked the pupils through what was happening, while principal Honey Stirling went live on Facebook to let parents know the story behind the mysterious arrivals on the school grounds.
Youngsters in prep to grade two visited the egg site and grade three to six students investigated the meteorite site from a safe distance.
Mrs Hardy said the school staged the event to “spark the imaginations of our students and for that creativity to come through in their writing“.
“Children always respond better during writing sessions if they have knowledge about what they are going to write about through an experience and discussion to unpack vocabulary and content and that they have a purpose for writing,“ she said.
“We gave our students both of these, and with an added bit of excitement and imagination, they were able to produce some wonderful pieces of writing across a myriad of genres.“
