YOUNGSTERS at Lethbridge Primary School scored the scoop of the century when they spent the week investigating and reporting on a suspected alien invasion last week.

Two Year 5 classes at the Old Town primary school got a taste of what it was like to be a journalist when student teacher Jessica Jones told the youngsters that aliens had crash landed at a nearby Wainhomes development.

The project aimed to inspire the youngsters to get creative with their writing and learn about how to structure a newspaper article.

Miss Jones said: “I wanted to do something that everyone would get interested and excited about and do something that would encourage everyone to get into writing.

“I went to the building site at Wainhomes and took a few photographs of what would be the alien crash landing site.

“We started talking about newspaper articles in class at the beginning of the week and then on Wednesday I told them that there had been an alien invasion.

“I gave them some witness statements and they took notes like journalists have to and then they had a chance to interview me as an eyewitness.

“Then on Thursday we had one of the Adver reporters come in to visit to talk about being a reporter and that was really useful for them.

“On the Friday they had their own go at writing up their articles with a catchy headline.

“They all got really into it.

“This week we’ll be looking again at it and starting to think more about where the aliens might have come from.”

As part of the project, Miss Jones spent much of half term preparing the objects that would be included as evidence in the mystery, including wreckage from the spaceship, a scrap of alien writing, an egg, and a tube of green liquid.

Miss Jones said: “They really got a lot out of it.

“The articles were all very very good, and I think they all really enjoyed it.

“I just want to say a big thank you to Dave Scott from Wainhomes for letting us on their building site.”