Terry’s Chocolate Dream
Groggan Primary School, P6
16th January 2024
Meet Terry; he really liked chocolate oranges. His biggest dream was to cover the world in chocolate oranges...
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Groggan Primary School, P6
16th January 2024
Meet Terry; he really liked chocolate oranges. His biggest dream was to cover the world in chocolate oranges...
Groggan Primary School, P7
16th January 2024
Zom was really nervous - he had just been subbed on during his debut match for an ordinary football club. He didn’t know what the fans were going to think about him because he was a zombie...
Nettlefield Primary School, P4
11th January 2024
Luna the lemon was stuck in the fridge and was trying to get out. She got really cold. She didn't like being cold. Someone opened the fridge and she jumped out. A robot appeared out of nowhere and took her to a different dimension. The lime was also trying to get out of the fridge but it was stuck. Luna the lemon was in the dark dimension, and she was scared and too warm...
Scoil an Droichid, R6
10th January 2024
In a swamp one day a radioactive building blew up and Bob the frog came to life. He discovered he was able to talk. The first food he encountered was spaghetti. People were chasing him for it so he thought it was rare. Then he ran into another frog called Jimmy, who was teal and green, and they became best friends.
Bob and Jimmy travelled through the mountains and lakes of spaghetti until they finally found the perfect home...
St John Primary School, Gilford, P6/7
9th January 2024
Mr Chairman, the rainbow coloured rocking chair was still in bed,it was past midday. He was feeling lazy and just didnt want to get up
Fort Hill Integrated College, Year 10
14th December 2023
Once upon a time Thomas was on a boat in the middle of the ocean, playing with a bouncy ball. He was on the boat with his two siblings because he had to evacuate to a new home. He was heart-broken and terrified to be leaving because there was a war going on and he couldn’t be with his parents. He also felt relieved...
Victoria Primary School, P7
13th December 2023
“Have you ever hidden a time capsule before? Because Sir William Wigglesworth had hidden something.”
He had hidden something magical. Before he died he hid it inside an immortal pig...
St. Moninna's Primary School, P5
12th December 2023
Santa did not look happy; he was covered in snow. Santa crashed into the snow and it went all over him. There was no Christmas spirit in his sleigh.
Dominican College, Fortwilliam, Y8 & Y9
6th December 2023
“I’ve repeatedly been told that I need to work on the farm, but I’ve always been interested in getting an education,” wrote Theo in his journal in bed one night. This is what his mother had wanted. She had disappeared less than a year ago, and everyone proclaimed her dead.
Theo had woken up from a recurring nightmare. Every time this happened, he wrote in his journal.
His mother had unexpectedly disappeared the previous year, on Tuesday, 7th of December 1923...
Young authors from Stranmillis University College Literacy Intervention Programme
5th December, 2023
One afternoon, Sophia was coming out of her school. It was a hot and sunny day and she was thinking about getting a snake as a pet. When she got home, she waited excitedly for her mum and dad to get home from work.
She asked her mum, “Can I get a snake please? I PROMISE that I will take care of it!”...
