An amazing discovery of artefacts occurred at Birchwood School last week, when dinosaur bones, fossils and even a few eggs, were dug out of the ground during some maintenance…. Kind of.
Students at the kura (school) have begun a term-wide topic covering the arts, and have paired it with dinosaurs and history to spark imagination.
Deputy principal Kim Donelly-Greep shared a message with the school last week: “You may have noticed that a large area of grass has recently been dug up in Jellystone Park. While the digging was originally to relocate some underground cables, something completely unexpected was uncovered... Prehistoric bones, fossilised eggs, and ancient fossils have been discovered! These incredible artefacts appear to have been hidden beneath our school grounds for thousands—perhaps even millions—of years. This is an amazing discovery, and experts are already eager to investigate.”
What ensued was hundreds of excited students, bustling to get a look. Keanu Beldham raced to grab his dinosaur book from the classroom, proceeding to tell all of his friends, and anyone else for that matter, exactly what was what. Cawthron food scientist Cath McLeod, assisted by her daughter Isla, arrived on site to carefully examine the remains.
And the teachers, many of whom had contributed to creating the ‘lost artefacts’, spent the rest of the day with children, drawing, writing, and talking about the discovery of dinosaurs in their own backyard.
