Year 6 - The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
This week in Year 6, we have continued to be inspired by the story of Juliane Koepcke, who survived an aeroplane crash. Juliane was flying over the Peruvian rainforest with her mother when her plane was hit by lightning. She survived a two-mile fall - she was the only survivor of the crash and aged 17, found herself alone in the jungle. This week, not only have we written excellent story descriptions from the perspective of the jungle (see below), but we have also created superb safety leaflets about keeping safe during a jungle trek. We loved using QR codes for the websites and thought hard about what resources they would like in the jungle to help them survive a plane crash.
'Rain thundered down. Streams rushed, frogs leaped, my forest was thriving, and all was well. But it was not just water falling from the sky. Up in the clouds was a figure – a human figure – rapidly losing height before hitting the ground with a dull thud. Then she just lay there, quiescent, metal cascading around her, oblivious to the world.
She came to a moon later, wincing as the many gashes in her face stretched, at least my defences had been partially effective. The limbs of my trees were strewn around her and, to my great displeasure, she used one to haul herself up. How dare she! This meant war. She started calling out for her mother: doubtless, she’d be dead, the girl I was watching was very lucky to have breath in her lungs and a beating heart. But I had to drive her out, for she was befouling nature itself. She was befouling me!
She started limping about, calling out loudly, her face creased with concern. I unleashed my first defences, a tide of midges and maggots which gnawed tirelessly away at her peeling skin…..'
