It looks like a scene straight out of an alien movie – a spacecraft smashed in the middle of a school field surrounded by smoke and explosions.

Youngsters arrived at Trinity Primary School to find their playing fields cordoned off by real police officers and firefighters who had surrounded the crashed alien craft.

But this was all an elaborate display designed to bring the mystical world of space, Earth, the moon and the stars to life in Wolverhampton.

Teachers spent two months dreaming up the dramatic display, which they placed in the school field in time for pupils’ arrivals.

Year five teacher Elliott Hately, who helped organise the display, said: “We get funding from the government as a school for creativity to set up projects.

“We are teaching the children about the Earth, moon and stars and so this was a way of bringing it to life.

“The whole thing was recorded on camera which is going to be used in a documentary about the subject.

“We got real police officers and firefighters to the school, partly to help as an educational tool and partly so people didn’t call the emergency services if they saw the field because they could see they were already there.

“We had smoke to make it look real. None of the children knew anything about it and they loved it.”