Stories

Welcome to our Library of Stories. Please click on the story title to read Chapter 1.
These are collaborative story openings created by school groups and community groups.
Each participant writes their own Chapter 2.

Hammy the Troublemaker

Strandtown Primary School, Ms Bell’s P4
7th March 2023
A 100 Years Project workshop
 
Once upon a time lived a happy family who loved music who had a hamster called Hammy. Hammy goes to Enid’s bedroom. Enid keeps Hammy as a pet. Hammy loves gold and she has a billion recorders that she plays every day. They are hamster sized recorders.

Belly was in the family. She was Enid’s sister. Everyday Enid would practice her singing and play her recorder. Enid and her sister were so good that they could make up a band. Enid and her sister were both 17. They were twins. Hammy heard about their band plan. She found a way of getting out of the cage and stole their trumpet while the sisters were in the kitchen baking cupcakes.

The Making of Bob’s Wish

Word Warriors


2nd March 2023
 
One day Bob who is a flying sausage, and the bread twins Crummy and Bready decided to go on a quest to climb up the H&W Cranes.

‘Nearly there!’ said Bob.

They came from The Bethany Chip Shop. They had been eating too many chips and said “I’m full, let’s go hiking to get into shape.” They decided to go there because they saw something strange on top of it. The strange sight was also in the news. It was big but he looked like a sandwich...

The Wild Adventure

Strandtown Primary School, Ms McCoy's P4
2nd March 2023
A 100 Years Project workshop

 

Once upon a time, there was a little girl called Molly. She was in her house looking at houses on her mummy’s phone. She was having breakfast. The night before, the frog from her garden tried to open the door with his tongue. He managed to get in by unlocking the door. He crept into Molly’s room and into her bed. Molly was shocked! 

The Surprising Diary

Strandtown Primary School, Ms Farrell's P4
1st March 2023
A 100 Years Project workshop
 
Once upon a time, a gingerbread man wanted a dirty old diary. This gingerbread man was very very eatable. This gingerbread man was called Johnny. Johnny was smaller than ordinary gingerbread men.Johnny’s great-great grandfather had written the diary, and he wanted to know about his great-great grandfather’s life. His great-great grandfather was also a gingerbread man who was in the army. Johnny’s great-great grandfather was called James and he had told his son that he was going to dig a hole for a time capsule and put his diary in it.
 

The Missing Sister

Strandtown Primary School, Ms McCourt's P4Illustration of "The Missing Sister", written by Strandtown P4
28th February 2023
A 100 Years Project workshop

Late one night, many years ago, one little kid put their favourite board game in a time capsule. The little boy’s name was Sam. 

Sam went to the park bringing with him a time capsule, a shovel, a spade, an apple, a cheeseburger and a bottle of water...

The Lemur and the Cheetah

PGCE English students, Queen's University Belfast
23rd February 2023

 

And just like that, they drove out of the zoo without arousing suspicion.  At that moment two schoolkids at the bus stop turned to each other.

“I’m pretty sure I’ve just seen a lemur in the back of that car...”
“Catch yourself on, you’re acting like you’ve never seen a cat before.” said one to the other. “There’s our school bus.”  

The Majestic Adventures of Robin the Wolf Shifter

Hazelwood Integrated Primary School, P5
22nd February 2023
 
Robin was a fearless wolf shifter who liked mythical stories. She could turn into a wolf at night, in the daytime she was an ordinary girl.  

She was on her way to a new school when she got lost in the rainforest. She got more deeper into the rainforest when she kept on walking. After two days, Robin found a river and while she was drinking, a tiger came over and snuggled into her. Robin was scared and fell into the river!   

Get Sleeping

Word Warriors Week 5 - Songwriting! With Colm Quearney ♪♫♪♫♪ ♫

16th February 2023

 

Family is joy, it’s happiness,  ♪

A feeling you will never forget,

Like when you travel to the coast,  ♫

And jump into the sea,

As you freeze you feel, ♫

The hand of a sister coming in for me...  ♪

Jimmy the Magic Banana

Birches Primary School, P7
15th February 2023

There was once a banana called Jimmy. Not a normal banana; a banana that was as tall as a skyscraper. But there was one really big problem; Jimmy was really scared of Tommy the monkey because Tommy is better than Jimmy at football. Jimmy was also a little bit jealous of Tommy. Jimmy had a friend called Jamie the green goblin. Jamie was a criminal who robs banks, but Jimmy didn’t know this.

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