By School child

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Project Title: HEIF 5 : Gathering and communicating climate knowledge, with particular reference to generating impact at local and national levels

Project Description: Collecting narratives from schoolchildren about their local environments as part of a wider engagement with schools, NGOs, community groups and policy-makers.

Collector: Dr Richard Irvine

Collection Date: 2014

Collection Details: Collected during walks with children from Petersfield Primary School to look at children’ connection to place and understanding the environment over time.

It was a dark and stormy night when Chris the coccolith came to his desition.

He was fed up of all the coccoliths teasing him for being tiny, as if he wasn't already tiny enough. He stomped out of the hill in a terrible mood and stood as tall as he could (which wasn't very tall at all).

He called as loud as he could 'Come out! Come out! Come out and fight!' All the other coccoliths heard him and watched in terror as the dark knight appeared majestically. In a show of bravado he stormed up the knight's armour until he reached the helmet. When he finally tickled the knight's ear the knight screeched like a baby and ran away. From that day forward Chris was a hero.