Mystery Eggs Discovered at Copley

Children in Springwood created their visions of the contents of the eggs.

Copley Primary School appears to be at the centre of a mystery that has attracted interest from as far away as the Natural History Museum in London.

School children and staff were this morning ushered into an emergency assembly at 9 am, where headteacher Mrs Oldfield told the story so far as she knew it.

'Every school day starts with either myself or Mr Kaye opening up the school,' she began, 'this morning it was my turn and so at seven this morning I unlocked all of the doors and everything was as usual. Recently, however, we had been finding that some older children who do not attend this school had been jumping over the walls and playing in the school yard at night. Over the last few weeks they had occasionally moved some of the toys in Mrs Shackleton's yard and discarded them around the playgrounds. Therefore I decided to check outside to make sure that all the toys were where they should be.'

It turned out that the playground had been accessed that night as Mrs Oldfield found that some toys had indeed been moved. When she was collecting them and tidying up she noticed something highly unusual in the far corner of the Junior yard, behind the befrienders sign.

'I saw what appeared to be an egg, which was broken into 2 pieces. It was a pale cream colour with dark speckles and there were trails of a green, slime like substance around the edges. I couldn't understand it!'

It turned out that there was more. On the wall above the smashed egg she discovered a second egg - which was still whole - lying on a nest of straw.

'I needed to calm down and gather myself, so I hurriedly went inside and called Mr Kaye and told him to get to the school as soon as possible.' She remembers 'luckily he was already on his way and it wasn't long before he arrived.'

After telling Mr Kaye the tale and having a cup of sweet tea to calm down, they decided the best course of action would be to call the council. The council sounded alarmed and told her to expect a call from a Mr Jeffrey Andrews from the Natural History Museum.

'I received a call soon after' Mrs Oldfield continued, 'but was surprised that it was from a local number, not the London code I'd expected.' As it happened Mr Andrews was already in Yorkshire. 'He was most interested in the news I'd given him and was keen to investigate, but he explained to me that he wouldn't be able to get to Copley until Thursday as he was currently in Ripon investigating a sinkhole.'

As you may be aware, Ripon has been in the news a lot recently owing to the fact that a large sinkhole has been discovered, causing nearby buildings to start to collapse. Now these phenomenons are fairly well known and it would seem bizarre that a man involved in Natural History would be sent to investigate this, but as the Headteacher explained 'Mr Andrews couldn't tell me very much, but he did say that large and unusual bones had been found in the sinkhole.'

Obviously there is a lot of confusion at the moment and rumours are beginning to spread within the school about what this could be, what it could mean for Copley and perhaps most worryingly of all, if one egg has hatched, what was inside and where is it now?

More to follow....

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