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For the best experience, listen with headphones. It was about a year and a half ago now. My kids at a time were six and eight and this was during the lockdown restrictions in the UK so no parents could go in the school grounds.

Coincidentally, the school did this exercise.

It's an English language exercise

where schools will present some kind of intriguing mystery,

and they will have the children view the

mystery and then write about it later. I think they did another one previously

which was a detective story so the kids would arrive at school and they'd go into a classroom and there would be police tape and upturned chair and maybe some documents scattered on the floor or something like they set up this kind of crime scene. They take the Georgian

in they'd let them view it in a kind of structured way and then they'd take them away

and ask them to write about what they had seen and to try and kind of infer

from what they had seen what they try and kind of infer for what they had seen, what they thought might

happened.

The thing that got me thinking about the aerial school was when they staged this

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