Sutton pupils bury time capsule containing virus and lockdown memories

Pupils at a Sutton-in-Ashfield primary school compiled coronavirus-related artifacts to make a time capsule – which they buried in the school field.
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Year six pupils at St Andrew’s C of E Primary School created the capsule to commemorate the strange period of time they had just encountered in lockdown, as the Covid-19 outbreak raged across the world.

The students took aspects of the year 2020 and wrote newspaper reports about them.

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The subject matter varied from the Black Lives Matter protests to music, movies and celebrities.

The pupils buried a collection of coronavirus-related artifacts.The pupils buried a collection of coronavirus-related artifacts.
The pupils buried a collection of coronavirus-related artifacts.

Inside the time capsule, the children also put pictures to show what life was like for them during lockdown, a recent copy of the Mansfield Chad and a memory stick containing pictures and electronic copies of the written work.

Once completed, the time capsule was buried by some of the pupils as part of the year six leavers’ celebration on the school field.

Ian Snelling, deputy head and year six teacher, said: “As a school we felt it important to commemorate this period of time.

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"The children have really enjoyed the project, thinking about things they could put into the time capsule and when it might be opened.

“”Are we going back in time to see the dinosaurs?” was the response from the pupils when they found out they first found out they were going to make a time capsule.

"Once we established it was a capsule – not a machine – the more realistic project started to take shape.”

The time capsule has been buried on the school field and signified with a plaque, to be opened one day in the future.