Mum finds 'sinister' message written in daughter's homework

A mum was shocked to discover a chilling message from her ‘lovely’ seven-year-old daughter while looking through her homework book.

Stephanie Furneaux, 33, discovered her eldest Poppy had creepily written 'In March I found poison to destroy you' as part of her cursive homework practise using a list of specified words.

The mum of two said she burst out laughing when she first read the ominous message and then started to feel a bit worried – but admitted she was impressed by the schoolgirl's penmanship.

“Poppy has homework every weekend where she has to do a page of spellings and then make a sentence using the words," Stephanie from Gunnislake, Cornwall, said.

“She didn't actually show me what she'd done at the time. I thought I would have a look to see how she was doing and check that she'd finished it and then I read that sentence.

“I'm not locking my bedroom door at night though, she's a lovely girl, really, so I'm sure I'm safe.”

The words Poppy were given for the writing exercise were January, February, March, knock, knitting, destroy, royal and poison.

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The homework instructions read: “Now practise your spellings by writing some of your spelling words in sentences.”

“I texted my husband James and I think he was a bit more sensible about it," microbiologist Stephanie said.

“He pointed out she didn't have that many words to make a sentence from so from what she was given she did a good job.

“I haven't mentioned anything to her about it, I just think it was clever of her to make a sentence from it.

“I couldn't really say anything, because it would be hard for her to understand and she's not actually done anything wrong.

“I thought the teacher would have acknowledged it with a smiley face or something but there was just a green tick. I wouldn't be surprised if he got some similar sentences from her classmates.”

Stephanie, who has another daughter - four-year-old Seren Furneaux - shared a picture of the homework online, asking, "Should I be worried about my seven-year-old?"

“I decided to share it on social media because I love seeing the other things that people post about their children," she explained.

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