PUPILS from Chagford Primary School learned all about Captain Robert Scott's adventures in the Antarctic recently, while putting together a play to mark a special anniversary.

Children from Meldon class performed their play 'Scott of the Antarctic' to mark the 100 years since Scott's death.

They have been discovering all about the expedition of Captain Robert Scott to the South Pole in 1910-1912, and it inspired most of their learning throughout the term — through literacy, science, art, music and technology. 

In literacy the pupils read Scott's diary and wrote their own diary entries to tell the story from Scott's point of view.  These diaries form the basis of the play and every pupil in the class wrote some of the diary entries heard in the play. They also used some of Scott's own words. 

The story is told through the diaries with play script sections to link these together.  Five different pupils play Captain Scott during the play and sometimes one Scott is in the tent writing his diary while the events of the diary are acted out by another. 

It was Thursday March 29 1912 when Scott wrote the very last entry in his diary and a century since his death.  The play was a tribute to the bravery and heroism of Scott and his loyal companions.

 The play opened by explaining some facts about Antarctica and the particular challenges facing polar explorers in the early 1900s.