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Meridian Primary School student Beatrice Delap penned a letter to Captain Jack Sparrow, star of the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise, asking him to come to her UK school to help orchestrate a student mutiny against the teachers. Much to everyone’s surprise, including Beatrice‘s, Captain Jack Sparrow showed up at her school to satisfy her request in person. Here is a photo of Capt. Jack (played by Johnny Depp) and Beatrice at her school this week:

It’s not everyday a Hollywood heartthrob pitches up in your classroom. But these Greenwich schoolgoers left the rest of Britain’s children – if not parents – green with envy when they had a surprise visit from Johnny Depp yesterday. The star in currently in the south east London borough filming the fourth Pirates Of The Caribbean movie On Stranger Tides and arrived at the Meridian Primary School dressed in full character as Captain Jack Sparrow. He made the one-off trip after nine-year-old pupil Beatrice Delap wrote to the star asking for help staging a ‘mutiny’ against the teachers, as he was filming at the at the nearby 18th Century Old Naval College. The school was told just 10 minutes before that Depp would be arriving and two blacked out cars swept through the school gates. An onlooker said she heard the most ‘incredible screams of joy’ as the actor, in full make-up, then entered the school … she was then asked by the star to make herself known from the assembled pupils once he arrived, and gave her a cuddle. Beatrice marvelled: ‘He gave me a hug and he said, “Maybe we shouldn’t mutiny today ‘cos there are police outside monitoring me.”‘

Gahhh!! How cute is this story? While this whole thing turned out to be a huge surprise I don’t think any of us should be at all surprised that Johnny would be so cool to one of his young fans. The practice of writing fan mail has gone way out of fashion in the Internet age … I’m guessing that Depp was impressed that Miss Delap actually put pencil to paper for her request. I love it. After the jump, check out the hand-written letter that Beatrice sent to Capt. Jack …

Captain Jack Sparrow, At Meridian Primary School, we are a bunch of budding young pirates and we were having a bit of trouble mutiny-ing against the teachers, and we’d love if you could come and help.

‘Beatrice Delap, aged nine, a budding pirate.

See folks … fan letters sometimes do yield amazing results. I love this story so much … and I wonder how many more letters Capt. Jack Sparrow will be receiving from here on out from other budding pirates ;)

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