Challenge Question set 14/01/05

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What is a group of ferrets called?
 
As many of you found out, the correct answer was a business of ferrets.
 
What name can you think of to call a group of school children?
 
There were a lot of very good answers that came in - well done to all of you! I was laughing out loud at your answers as I was coming home on the bus.(You get strange looks when you do this!) It was very hard to choose only five but, fearing bankruptcy from giving out so many prizes, here they are:
 
A satchel of school children. (from Rachel - Year 4)
 
I think a group of school children could be called a book [of school children] because a book has lots of words, like a school. (from Megan - Year 3)
 
A group of school children can be called a study of school children. (from Lucy - Year 4)
 
by Megan
A group of children is called a hurricane [of school children]. (from Jeremy -Year 3)
 
A group of children is called a class, or a gang or a team [of school children]. (from Sam - Year 4).