Once Upon A Crime

Author: Helen Fleming

Wow! What a start to 2025! The Year 3 children could not believe their eyes and ears when 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 a number of familiar belongings and items of clothing. Scattered around the site, the children identified Little Red Riding Hood’s cloak and basket, bread crumbs, a house made of sweets, a number of colourful jellybeans, cinnamon and baked gingerbread men.

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 evil step mother had turned Snow White into a frog, the troll had gobbled one of the Three Billy Goats Gruff, the Big Bad Wolf had lost his tail while munching on the Gingerbread Man and The Ugly Sisters had hidden Cinderella’s glass slipper in the bushes!

Who do the police need to speak to? Uh oh, all of the children left their fingerprints on the evidence… what if they became the suspects?

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