The 370 children at Southway Junior School, in Burgess Hill, west Sussex, saw a 'spaceship' crash near their school and then aliens grabbed a member of staff as part of the performance.
The 'alien invasion' show, which was supported by Sussex Police, took place without parents being informed, leaving some furious that they had to comfort their terrified children.
Southway School admitted that a number of parents complained after their children returned home in a "state of shock".
Youngsters had to be reassured that the abducted member of staff was safe and well after he was carted off by the aliens.
Police contributed to the invasion by providing sirens and flashing blue lights to signify the landing of the craft just before morning classes on July 10 (=17).
The school responded to the furor on their website:
The ‘Everyone Writes Day’ was based on an idea from the Department for Children, Schools and Families and National Literacy Trust. The aim was to find ways to take writing beyond the classroom, to provide exciting stimuli for writing and to inspire children to write creatively. Local police involvement was an important ingredient, adding a touch of reality to the day and strengthening community links.
Yeah, sure. Well, the school also is providing exciting stimuli for drawing, getting the kiddies to draw the Ennead and other Egyptian icons.
Gee, what's the connection there?
Cheers to a Secret Sun reader for the reminder.
UPDATE: Tommy at Kozmikon weighed in on this yesterday as well.
UPDATE II: Make of this what you will, but Mr Panda points us to a report claiming a record rise in UFO sightings in the UK. If I were writing a scifi novel, this little stunt might have be an experiment testing the reaction of children to a widespread contact event.If I were writing an X-Files episode, the teacher would have been killed by a swarm of bees infected with an alien virus at the same time.
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its another day of tavistock's community outreach programs no doubt....
disgusting........
I made a post about this yesterday.
It's really suspicious that even the police were in on it.
Talking about ufo stuff in the U.K, have you seen this news report?
http://itn.co.uk/2b56b6281affebe1b2a35806751ea8cc.html
Still seeing them buggers over here in Alberta too. Last night I saw one drastically change its flight path while in proximity of 'another' satellite. Do satellites have thrusters? That might explain some of the sightings. It would make sense that they would have thrusters.
I don't have equipment capable of catching this stuff(too far.) I tried the other night to no avail. But people here are talking about it. Plus a couple people Ive talked to are starting to see 'green shit' in the skies. Looks like some kind of magnetically stable ionized cloud formations of some sort. Sorta....
Watched Knowing the other day finally. The ending was weird.
peace
da fuck? who would even think this up.
This sounds more like an episode of "The Sarah Jane Adventures."
I found this stage at the Glastonbury 2009 festival
http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/areas/arcadia/
Yacarete mentioned The Sarah Jane Adventures. Intriguing, that June 10th was also the date of the final episode of
Torchwood: Children of Earth another Doctor Who spinoff. It ran on bbc1 at primetime for 5 consecutive nights and had an alien race speaking through schoolkids.
On a different note, looking through the egyptian artwork by the schoolkids, I noticed that a lot of the paintings contained hidden faces, similar to a lot of surrealist and folk art paintings.
Things have definitely gotten interesting this past month. I've seen two ufo's myself, one of which looked kind of amazing. Yeah, interesting is the word.
It gets weirder - this is the third such event in the last 6 months*, in southern England, at schools, with the police involved and described as part of a writing/journalism exercise.
*that I'm aware of - there might be more waiting to be found
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