Year 3 – ONCE UPON A CRIME!

Author: Jill Bates

Wow! What a start to 2024! The Year 3 children could not believe their eyes and ears when on Thursday 4^th January, they walked into school and Year 3 was wrapped in police tape. What was going on? They received a message from Lincolnshire Police saying there had been a disturbance in the school grounds in the early hours of the morning. The police stated that a vast amount of evidence had been left at the site of the incident, but they simply couldn’t identify who (or what) could have been involved or what could have happened. So, they asked the children to put on their best detective hats, their sniffer dog noses and Sherlock home brains to investigate the site.

The children took no convincing at all, they jumped at the opportunity to solve this mysterious crime. They soon spotted several familiar belongings and mysterious items of clothing. Scattered around the site, the children identified Little Red Riding Hood’s cloak and basket, breadcrumbs, a wicked witch’s house made of sweets, handfuls of colourful jellybeans, cinnamon and ginger sprinkled on tables, masks representing The Three Billy Goat’s Gruff and not forgetting baked gingerbread men broken into pieces.

The children soon realised this was no ordinary crime scene, but a Fairy Tale crime scene. Clearly some mischievous fairy tale characters had been trespassing and getting up to all sorts of mischief. Looking closely at the evidence and clues, the children drew all sorts of conclusions, and established that (among other things), the characters had escaped from the fairy tale books, the wicked witch had turned Snow White into a mouse, Goldilocks had poisoned the bears, the Big Bad Wolf had lost his tail while. The Ugly Sisters had hidden Cinderella’s glass slipper in Mrs Moore’s office, and they even accused teachers of sneaking into school and biting the legs off the poor little Gingerbread Men,

As soon as the children finished investigating the site, they descriptively completed the official Police Incident Reports. Unexpectedly, the police contacted Miss Fleming and said that the returned evidence pieces were now contaminated as the Year 3 children’s fingerprints were all over them, this made all the children suspects. In complete disbelief, the children pleaded their innocence, but the police insisted that we took their mugshots. Miss Fleming stated ‘Although accused, the children absolutely loved helping the police with their investigations and would love to be of assistance again in the future if they need further support to catch the true criminals!’ If you know ‘WHODUNNIT’ then please let us know.

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