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.
Leadhill Primary School, P7
1st December 2022
A 100 Years Project workshop
Chapter One: The Golden Treasure
Once upon a time, King Gregor the Third of Scotland owned a coin. The coin was so precious that he kept it padlocked in a box in his pocket. He had white hair, a scruffy beard and his favourite breakfast was wheaten bread and three plump pork sausages...
St. Catherine's Primary School, P7
30th November 2022
There was a boy called Josh, who became much richer than the others in his school because his mother had passed away and left him a lot of money.
One unfortunate day everything changed...
Stranmillis University College Literacy Intervention programme
With pupils from Currie, St Joseph's (Slate St), St Mary's (Divis) and Glenwood Primary Schools
29th November 2022
Pixie the fox was Daisy the rabbit’s best friend. Pixie was having a sleepover at Daisy’s house. She lived in an abandoned house!
Chapter 3 : Roxy was walking on the trails around the Henry Jones Pitches, to help her back get better. Roxy tripped over a muddy stick and picked it up. Whenever Roxy picked up the stick, all the mud fell off and he knew it was magic and sparkling. He started to heal way faster, and got a forcefield around herself, it was a big blue octagon bubble and had purple sparkles on it. The dragon suddenly appeared and snatched the stick from Roxy, he had smashed the magic stone. When the dragon snatched the stick with a very angry face, he set it on fire with his heatray. The dragon had broken the stick because he thought he was powerful enough by himself...
St. Oliver Plunkett Primary School, P5
23rd November 2022
One day, in the future, Mig was watching his friend Jordan play a football match, then he noticed a woman wearing a shiny necklace. He went down to steal it from her when she wasn’t looking...
A Storyseeds WorkshopMittens and Archer got one of the nurses from the hospital to take them to Ardoyne Library which was close to the hospital. They were looking for a potion to help their friend Roxy the dinosaur get better.
They scanned the non-fiction section and they found a shelf with these titles: The Royal Hospital Spell Book, Wonderful Wishing World, The Medication Book, and The Powerful Spells. They took all the books off the shelf and put them on the carpet to read them...
Mercy Primary School, P6
17th November 2022
Bob and Jemima had been friends for over three years now. They met in a bin truck whenever rubbish was taking over their planet. It was sticky, slimy and smelly inside. Bob and Jemima both screamed because they were scared...
Jimmy looked out the window and saw darkness and stars. A comet went by and crashed into the spaceship He crash landed in Antarctica.
A Storyseeds WorkshopMittens the cat was chilling in the sun in Lenadoon park. He was stuck in a lemon. He was trying to eat a lemon and someone put the halves together and taped it up, then he got stuck. BLAST! Mr. Dragon’s spaceship had wrapped up Mittens. Archer, his best friend, came to Lenadoon park and opened the lemon and let him out.
St. Oliver Plunkett Primary, P5
9th November 2022
An evil jelly created a massive nuclear waste cloud. It covered the city and Tank the dog was infected by it. He grew to an enormous size. Tank passed out after being shot in the eyes and woke up two hours later and wished to get payback. All of the jellies from Planet Jelly arrived on Earth. They wanted to take over the world!
In order to defeat these jellies he had to go across the world to meet a really smart jelly. The evil jellies had locked up and hidden the smart jelly away. Tank had to find the key to release the smart jelly...
