Videos and photos of a ‘meteorite’ in the playground at Grange Primary have gone viral on social media.
When the Angus school’s children arrived in the morning, they were met with what they thought was a space rock which had landed on school grounds.
Community police officers had thrown a police cordon around the ‘space object’.
Officers warned the kids not to approach it and teachers told the unsuspecting pupils it was a real meteorite from outer space.
The playground was buzzing with excitement.
Joseph McCallum, P4B, said: “I was walking to school and I saw blue lights so I ran up to school and saw the police.
“They said there was an asteroid and they were guarding it.”
Jude Balmer, P3A, told us: “I heard it last night, I heard a bang.
“I thought it was a bin but when I got to school I realised it must have been this.”
Matteo McLeod, P7A, added: “I’m not sure if it’s real because there is no hole where it hit the ground and it’s flat on the bottom, but that could be because of the impact.
“People were throwing rocks at it and it made a hollow noise but I looked it up and they are hollow inside.”
Florence McQueen, P4B, said: “I’ve never seen anything like it in my life.”
Comments and posts about the meteorite were all over social media too, with many believing it was a real space rock.
But in fact it was a craft project made mostly from papier-mâché by students at Monifieth High School.
Grange headteacher Lorraine Will said the idea of the ‘meteorite’ was to spark the children’s interest in space as they launched their new school project on the subject.
She said: “It was to provoke their interest and curiosity about where this came from and encourage them to want to find out more about space.
“It’s led to lots of questions and research in class and the children have been really excited.”
The school hosted a space evening with children and parents to continue learning, with a planetarium in the gym hall and different activities in each of the classrooms.
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