100WC Week #22 - Samuel & Maya

Each week a prompt is given, which can be a picture or a series of individual words and the children can use up to 100 words to write a creative piece. The students write a creative piece around 100words and publish it. This week, the picture below was the prompt:

The Doorbell by Samuel

I'm in the forest walking around looking for different animal species for my job. When I thought I had found something, I glanced forward and saw a trail leading somewhere. I went to follow it and I walked into a house. It looked like no one lived there anymore. Some people would just walk past it and carry on with what they are doing; others would walk on and investigate. I wanted to examine so I strolled over to it and pressed the doorbell wondering what would happen and a remarkable sound came out. The door creaked open creakily and...   

Doorbell by Maya

The doorbell had stood there for years none actually knew how long but all the rust suggests that it had been there for a while. The house was old even the people that lived in the house were old. There I was standing outside probably one of the creepiest house in my neighbourhood ! I kept telling myself it's just a house but I was still as terrified as before. My heart beating faster than before palms sweating legs aching I was terrified . Well wouldn't you be ? I felt a knife twist in my heart as I entered through the door.          

100WC Week #22 - Dillon & Nancy

Each week a prompt is given, which can be a picture or a series of individual words and the children can use up to 100 words to write a creative piece. The students write a creative piece around 100words and publish it. This week, the picture below was the prompt:

The Doorbell by Dillon

As Tom dragged his feet up the cracked path, he held his breath in fear, as he edged closer to the copper doorbell, it creaked open!

Tom lived on a street with a ‘supposedly’ abandoned house. 

He was always pondering on what  could be inside, eventually his curiosity had got the best of him. Before he knew it he was treading hesitantly up the overgrown path, he almost tripped over his own terror as he approached the doorbell. He placed his hand on the doorbell. It rang out a strange noise as if it was whispering “Come in, come in…” 

The Walk by Nancy

As I slowly walked down the big hill as steadily as I could. I tripped and tumbled down into a tree but luckily there were no bad injuries.  All I had was a little bump on my head. A few minutes later, I stumbled across an old, unstable house.

I rang the doorbell but nobody answered I rang the doorbell for the second time but still nobody answered. I peeked through a window nobody, was in there. I said to myself this home must have been abandoned years ago. I looked through another window but nobody, was in there.

                    Until...

100WC Week #22 - Freya & Emily

Each week a prompt is given, which can be a picture or a series of individual words and the children can use up to 100 words to write a creative piece. The students write a creative piece around 100words and publish it. This week, the picture below was the prompt:

Forgotten by Freya

There was this house down my street, no one visited it for years. It was forgotten.

It had vines crawling up and down the walls, bugs everywhere. But, it was forgotten.

I stopped every time I passed this place, it was massive. But once again,it was forgotten.

The doorbell was ancient, but magical, no one remembered it. It was forgotten as well.

I opened the gate and approached the house, I rang the doorbell too, apparently the place was haunted, I carried on any who. But the minute I set foot inside the house, I was forgotten too...

Spooky Evening by Emily 

One very spooky evening, a doorbell, not just any doorbell, rang. It was as if it was crying out. This peculiar doorbell was like no other; it was intricate with a microscopic gem in the centre of it. 

Jeffery, a boy of 15, found this doorbell.Terrified,he bravely strolled up to the midnight-blue, wooden door. The doorbell rang. But nobody had answered the door. He rang several more times and it gave in. Jeffrey tip-toed through a dark corridor and heard a click. What he didn’t realise was that a strange figure was lurking in the shadows behind him...

The Bananagrams School Club February Challenge - #BSCWeLoveLearning

Since February is a month of love and appreciation, The Banangrams School Club thought it would be fun to have the students showcase their love for learning and school!

For this challenge, we asked the Year Six students to create a list of words that represent all the things they enjoy about learning, in general. Below are some examples of what they came up with...

Postcards From Canada

As part of our Canada study, we've imagined we're in Canada writing back home. First of all, we researched Canadian cities (in this case, St. John's, NL). Then, we wrote our first draft into out books, before publishing them.

#ExpeditionPenguin - Questions and Answers

The Like To Be site aims to 'Provide your students with unique careers experiences and the opportunity to engage with potential employers.' As a school, we have engaged with Like To Be as part of our Future Me programme. 

This winter, Like To Be have, in partnership with "Polar Latitudes", taken school flags, including one of our own, to Antarctica with them. Our flag has gone with a team of expedition scientists who are sailing by yacht across some of the roughest seas in the world to the South Sandwich Islands in Antarctica to see if the world’s biggest chinstrap penguin colony (last seen when filming Planet Earth 2) has survived a volcano eruption on the island of Zavodovski. 

On the Like To Be platform, we have followed their journey and also asked questions that have been answered: 

Through Penguin Watch, we also helped to count some penguins!

Thank you to the team at Like To Be for enabling us to follow the expedition and for allowing us to copy some of the website content from the Expedition Penguin Forum onto this blog.