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The Word Warriors Daily News
Giant shark causes chaos in Belfast’s Titanic Quarter
17th October 1996
Report by: Word Warriors Staff Reporters
Earlier this morning, a giant shark called Bruce was eating the Belfast Cranes.
People screamed and ran away to board a ship going to Scotland.
One terrified bystander, Mary Smith, said ‘It’s the most frightening thing i’ve ever seen in my life! It had at least 500 teeth...!’
Rathcoole Primary School, P7
30th March 2023
Grazer lived under a massive oak tree in the middle of the forest. Grazer was very insecure. He just appeared one day. He’d had a concussion, he realised he’d bashed his head against a tree. Then he had the face of a fox. He could feel it with his hands. Grazer felt shocked, scared and sore...
Portadown Integrated Primary School
29th March 2023
Once upon a time there was an evil mermaid called Kelpy who always wanted to be queen of the ocean. One day she was playing with her best friend Iggy the penguin.
Iggy said to Kelpy, ‘do you want to go on an adventure?’
‘Ok, but first I have to plan how to get the crown from the king!’ shouted Kelpy because she always got what she wanted...
Holy Child Primary School, P6 and P7
28th March 2023
Once in the forest it was a rainy day. Balloon fell out of a tree and into a truck. The truck was on its way to a nuclear power plant and it was full of fruit and vegetables. The truck driver, Smoker, was from Ohio and was an ex-army man. He wanted to mutate his cargo to take over the world and some day the universe...
Word Warriors
23rd March 2023
Fade In:
Scene 1
EXT: In the jungle, night
ZAZ is a werewolf. He is using his claws to scrape through vines in a jungle. There is a full moon. TOM, standing in his hotdog stand, stares up at it full of wonder. He is waving, trying to persuade the monkeys to come and buy a hot dog...
St Patrick's Primary School, Holywood, P4
23rd March 2023
Once upon a time, there was somebody called Jigalee the banana. One night, he decided to go for a wee walk. He was on his way to the forest when he saw his best friend, Lula the kitten...
Everyone who came to his store wanted to buy these shoes but brought them back when they noticed all of their other shoes were all ripped up and the red shoes were trying to eat their toes.
Evil Shoes had started by biting the shoe seller’s toes and ripping up all the shoes in the shop. The shoe seller started painting other shoes red to disguise them, and Evil Shoes was painted brown. People didn’t realise this until everyone started getting their toes bit....
Holy Trinity Primary School, P5
21st March 2023
Firstly, there was a kid called Einstein (he was a uniquely juicy apple!). He once was the apple of his teacher’s eye, but then one day he fell from his tree with a SPLAT and a SQUISH! He lost a lot of juice, and got a concussion. He was rushed to hospital and the doctor said he couldn’t afford to stay in the hospital so he had to stay at home in his own bed.
Word Warriors learned two folklore stories with Janice Witherspoon from Armstrong Storytelling Trust
The Story of Ailsa Craig and Molly and the Leprechaun. They drew illustrations to help remember the picture and then retold the stories brilliantly to the whole group.
Strandtown Primary School, Ms Johnston's P4
16th March 2023
A 100 Years Project workshop
There was a girl called Violet who had a horse that she could speak to! She had everything she wanted, except a diary. So she went down to the woods, and said to a fox, “Okay big guy, please can I have a diary”...
