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.

Katie's Adventure

St. Oliver Plunkett Primary School, P4Katie's Adventure - Black Cat in Woods - artwork by Eileen Neill
Tuesday 20th September 2022

One day a cat called Katie went outside to play in the park. She decided she was going to fly to the park but she didn’t know what she was going to go on first. Katie was a magic cat who could fly and cast spells. She saw her friend at the park and they went on the slide.

“Let’s go to the woods,” said her friend, Whiskers. Whiskers was a black cat who loved to climb.

Katie said, “Okay, but we have to come back before noon.”

“Why?” asked Whiskers.

“Because, at noon, lots of people come to hunt cats in the woods.”

The Wishing Stone

St. Bernard's Primary School, P6
15th September 2022

Flower slapped Winnie the donkey in the face! Flower did this because Winnie accidentally stepped on one of Flower’s petals.  Then Flower found a wishing stone right beside them and it didn’t work. (You have to be nice for the wishing stone to work.)...

Chickens on the Run

St. Bernard's Primary School, P6
14th September 2022

It was dark, and it was a stormy night. They were gone! Chuckle Chicken’s family had disappeared from the world. He went out to find his family but got struck by lightening instead. He gained a superpower when he got struck. He never felt the same again. He raised his wing and electricity shot out. Chuckles went back to bed that night in his coup and thought it was just a dream...

Potato Wars

St. Bernard's Primary School, P6
13th September 2022

Once upon a time there was a happy potato called Jeremy who was half eaten. You might be wondering why he was half eaten, nobody knows – except Jeremy of course! It was night and he was sleeping in his cave, he was on the Island of Ireland when the Famine was happening. He was running away from people trying to eat him during the Famine when he found the cave. He was too scared to leave the cave but once he did he met his friend Sally the Sweet potato.

Sally was acting a bit strange. “Yesterday you trapped me in a glass jar!” said Jeremy. Sally was getting very jealous of Jeremy’s girlfriend and one day the ex-girlfriend disappeared. Then the next day Sally admitted she was an evil witch who could make food disappear into a boiling lake AKA a pot. Before she turned them into food she trapped them in the jars.

After living in the jar for a week, Jeremy finally managed to push the jar open...

Transformations

Scoil an Droichid, R6
8th September 2022

There once was a girl called Angelie who got bit by a spider!

She woke up in the middle of the night and she felt like something was wrong. She looked in the mirror and screamed...

The Mystery of the Lost Teddy

Augher Primary School, P7
7th September 2022
A 100 Years Project workshop

It was evening time in Maggy Smith’s cottage. She couldn’t hear very well because of her old age. She used to run a bakery, but it burnt down in 1901. Maggy Moo’s Bakery was very popular and full of home baked goods. Her speciality were scones, soda bread and Victoria sandwich cakes. Children loved going after school to buy buns. They tried to get there quick before they sold out. The first two children to arrive got them for free! 

Horseriding

By the Afterschool clubs of Windsor Women’s Centre and Footprints Women’s centre
6th September 2022

Jessica was sitting in her front garden when her best friend April came to visit. April said to Jessica “Do you want to go horse riding?”

They went to April’s house to get money for their horse riding lessons that were happening in Botanic Gardens. When they got there, there was a very pretty golden tabby cat. April said: “Look at that pretty little tabby cat, let’s take it home..”

Light Bulb's Mission

Lightbulbs Mission image - more info in storyFair Hill Primary School
6th September 2022

“Hi, I’m Light Bulb Man and this is my sidekick Wire Snake. My goal is to light up the world and today we are going to try to complete that mission!”

Light Bulb man had met Wire Snake one day when he saw Wire Snake trying to convince people that he was a real snake, not just a wire. Wire Snake was hiding in a bush with his head poking out hissing at people. Light Bulb man saw Wire Snake and said “No offence, but you're not a snake, you're just a wire.” ...

Blaze and Kelly, the Super Sweets

Storymaking Workshop at 2 Royal Avenue
16th August 2022

Once upon a time, there was a gummy bear superhero called Blaze who had superpowers and wanted to save the world from a giant bowling ball that was going to crush everyone.

Blaze could not do this alone so he got his best friend Kelly to help him. Then Blaze heard a noise. It was a rumbling sound of a bowling ball. Him and Kelly started running as fast as they could to get away from the bowling ball...

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