Our story began when we found a footprint in the floor......we had to figure out what animal the footprint came from! Mrs Heynes' class thought it might have come from a Snow Lion, a Polar Bear, a Snow Cat, an Arctic Fox or a Penguin. We agreed that it had come from a penguin. We then looked around the room for more footprints.

We used our imaginatioins and creative skills and made a penguin for each class.

Mrs Heynes and Miss Palmer drew a map in front of the children.....it was a zoo. We used narrator voices to tell the story of how all of the animals had all been re-homed or returned to their native countries, as their enclosures were crossed out. The only animal left in the zoo was 1 lonely penguin.  The children connected to this penguin emotionally, many felt that the penguon was sad and needed some other prnguins to make it happy.

At the next stage of our story, we met a man in the zoo (Adult in Role).  He was an inspector. He was trying to close down the zoo, but had 1 penguin left.  He asked us if we were the zoologists - we said yes, and that we were penguin exeprts!  He gave us a list of what the penguin needed and told us we had a week to get it out of the zoo.  

However......the list of things the penguin needed didnt look quite right.......

When we revisited the story, the penguin looked very sad and lonely in the enclosure.  His feathers had started to fall off! We used the penguins we had made to write down its thoughts........

We agreed that something had to be done with the penguin, and as we were experts, we would look after it properly and then take it back to Antarctica.  We knew how to make the penguin happy and healthy again, it needed fish, water and some friends!

Before we could take the penguin back, we had to find out how far away Antarctica was from England.  We used a world map, but needed some more information.  We used our Online Safety knowledge and decided to ask Google, using the internet. We found out Antarctica was more than 10,000 miles away, and across a lot of water.

We thought carefully about how to get there. We all drew the mode of transport we would like to use.  Some people thought we could swim! We thought about this, and decided that it would be too cold and too far! Some people thought we could go on an aeroplane, but then we thought the penguin would be too scared of the noise.  We decided that a boat would be best, but then changed our minds to a submarine! Mrs Heynes and Mrs Crumpton will be driving the submarine!

Our next job was to think about what clothes we would need for our trip.  We have been looking at the environment in Antarctica and comparing it to ours.  We know it is very cold and icy. We packed a suitcase with suitable clothes and then thought about what the penguin would need.  

We said that the most important supplies for the penguin would be water and fish to eat.  We set about making some lovely shiny fish to take on our journey.