Junior School - Upper Second turn detective
This week, Upper Second became Crime Scene Investigators.
As part of their class project on crime they were visited by Jon Bates from Sci-High Forensics who spent the day with our Upper Second detectives and led them through different role plays.
In this scenario, there had been a break-in at Kilgraston School and the culprits had left behind lots of forensic evidence. Upper Second pupils donned their forensic suits to collect blood swabs, dusted for fingerprints, and found footprints in our initial search.
The police then sent the forensic team the fingerprints, clothes, handwriting samples from the three main suspects. They then had to analyse these carefully to paint a picture of what happened that night.
Once the Crime Scene Investigators had pulled together all the evidence, Upper Second pupils then held a full trial complete with judge and jury to determine whether the suspects were innocent or guilty. The forensic evidence we had found was essential, especially the blood spatters.
The class had a fantastic day so thank you to Jon for leading this investigation.
You can find our more about our Junior School curriculum here.
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