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.
St. Oliver Plunkett Primary School, P6
8th December 2022
Once upon a time there was a giraffe called Jimmy. He absolutely hated the zoo, so he decided to escape.
After he escaped from the zoo, the zookeepers were looking for Jimmy. The chief of the zoo said on the walkie-talkies, “This just in: Jimmy escaped. The zoo is on lockdown!”
Jimmy went up in the hills looking for grass, and he found George the Magic Monkey eating cheeseburgers...
St. Oliver Plunkett Primary School, P6
7th December 2022
Captain Cheeseball got an alert while he was in his headquarters with his best friend Fire Man. The alert said that there was a robbery. Captain Cheeseball said, “Everyone go home, the diner is closing early.”
Back in the 1620’s, there was a man called Sword who was very strong and had two children. He had been living a normal life for twenty years before being mutated. He abandoned his twin children named Blade and Joe when they were 13 after the mutation happened, because he thought he couldn’t handle it. A tornado came and destroyed his town and things were never the same again. The tornado was dark grey and a bad spell was spinning around in it. It ruined everything and Sword’s heart. He turned into a sword because of the bad spell...
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...
