The attached document is the result of some collaborative planning
carried out by Cambs. music teachers in the context of the new KS3
curriculum and some moe thinking by Chris Hiscock (Cambs. Adviser).

A team of expert archaeologists (think Indiana Jones, not the Time Team) are flown to a deserted Caribbean island in search of the buried treasure of Blackbeard, the notorious 18th century pirate. The treasure is well hidden (possibly in a cave deep under the island’s extinct volcano). The team will have to search the entire island and look for clues of pirate activity, whilst being careful to protect themselves from the island’s many dangerous animals.

A local farmer has uncovered a large metal box with an interesting and complicated opening mechanism. A team of archaeologists are asked to examine it’s contents by a local museum…

The Writers Cooperative Company, recently awarded the ‘Writer of the Year’ gold medal for a collection of short stories, have been head hunted by ‘Book World’ publications of the USA. Their brief has been to find ‘ghost writers’ to invent and write stories based on the late Harris Burdick’s last set of illustrations

A team of highly regarded archaeologists, who specilise on the Viking invasions, have the job of visiting and working at any site of national interest. They are very good at creating possible stories from fragments of information and have been highly excited by the recent find of a helmet on a field.

A company who run a tree growing business, known as the ‘Foresters of Dunmow’, has just received a commission from the World Heritage Commission to grow a large number of sequoias in order to safeguard the species in the wild. One challenge is how to ensure they will be safe for the next thousand years. However reports are coming in of the spread of the chestnut virus …

A living museum, in a Victorian Workhouse. A place where people can learn about the past & experience something of what it was like to live & work in a workhouse.

Accompanying the famous Tutankhamen exhibition to London is a ‘sister’ exhibition of a recently discovered tomb of a noble family of the same period. A team of expert transporters – with a successful history of removing, transporting and returning objects of great value and historical importance - are commissioned to remove and transport the items to the exhibition and, afterwards, return them to the exact same position in the tomb.

A team of quality Control people or ‘Placement Checkers’ are called together to check the houses of people who have volunteered to take children from London prior to the evacuation system starting at the beginning of the 2nd WW.