YOUNG scribes at Old Hill Primary School spent a day reporting and investigating a mock space craft crash in their playground.

All the children from nursery to year six took part in a range of activities centred around the incident including writing a newspaper report on the incident, persuading the alien to stay, searching for clues and researching alien sightings as part of Everybody Writes Day.

The local police were in attendance to add to the realism, but the teachers admitted their duplicity before the end of school, so the youngest children could sleep easy.

Headteacher Sally Fenby said: “There was a real buzz around school, they loved it and a lot of the children didn’t realise they’d been writing all day, they were so engrossed.

“They produced some fantastic work. We invited their parents in the following day to look at the work and had very positive feedback.”