PUPILS at a Shipley primary school have turned detective and enjoyed a far from elementary education by posing as Young Sherlocks.

Youngsters in Year Five at High Crags Primary in Windhill have been studying crime fiction during the autumn term, with great results, said assistant head teacher Sarah Bowe.

"It's been amazing and stimulated some really fantastic work," she said.

"They have been looking at all sorts of detective stories and at the start of term we turned the classroom into a crime scene and the children interviewed each other as suspects.

"They've been very enthusiastic and it's a thematic project which is part of the new curriculum," she said.

And now the nine and ten-year-olds have turned their attention to the world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes and transformed a classroom into their version of his Baker Street flat, compete with Victorian fireplace and deerstalkers.