This animated film was created at Word 08. Primary 7 from Sunnybank School organised and delivered two workshops during the Word School’s programme at the University of Aberdeen. They introduced pupils from Bucksburn Primary School and families from Aberdeenshire Home School Group to digi blue animation. The Sunnybank youngsters helped their groups film the scenes for The Test and this is the result! Well done all involved.
Add comment August 5th, 2008
Simon Puttock is an award winning author who has published many children’s books. His books, including Mrs Fox, Goat Donkey and the Strawberry Sunglasses are firm favourites on The Reading Bus.
Primary 5 at Sunnybank enjoyed a short residency with Simon Puttock during this summer term. The class worked with Simon for four sessions and all wrote their own fantastic stories.
Here, in their own words, is a summary from Primary 5:
Week 1 - We didn’t know what you wanted us to do , but we all soon started to have fun. You started to write our spelling words on the board in a funny collection and “The Three-Word Game” was born. Here are some of our three words: “invisble eating car”, “paper projector holder”, “destruction grill monster”, “diamond powered pistol”.
Week 2 - We talked about the three word game and how to make our words into a story. We discussed the problems some of us had with our stories.
Week 3 - We quickly got down to work and after reading some plans and stories, you gave us advice on how to make our stories better.
Week 4 - Your last week. We read some of our stories and recorded our 3 words for The Reading Bus Radio. You even read us one of your stories - “Miss Fox”.
This is what we thought about our sessions with Simon:
“Your visits helped to boost my confidence and the best part about it was the three letter word game. I felt happy because you showed me how to write exciting, emotional and intersting stories. I learned that stories can be exciting and be fun and not just a chore.”
“I could not have written my story if you had not come. We really liked your lessons. You were fantastic, brave, not shy and funny. Everyone in the classroom laughed and were so amazed at what you have done.”
“Your visits made me boost my confidence so I can write better stories. I also learned that anyone can write a story and it doesn’t take a few hours. Your visit has really made me improve my writing.”
“When you came in I was scared but during the weeks I wasn’t scared. I will try to write a bit more.”
Here are two of the stories from Primary 5
Once there was a tiger called Stips who was very kind. She like to play with other tigers. Stigs had black stripes and ginger paws with very long, sharp claws She liked to bounce with her friends on her friend’s tampouline.
One day Strips was on her way home from school when she sawy something in the back garden. Her Mum had bought her a brand new trampouline. She was so happy she gave her Mum a huge hug and a kiss. She went onto her trampoline staright away and was there until bedtime.
The next morning her Mum woke up to a boing, boing noise. She looked out of her window and saw Stips bouncing in the trampoline. Mum went downstairs and told Steps to get ready for school but Stips refused and kept on bouncing because she loved bouncing on her new trampoline.
Stips remembered that her best friend had told her about a competition for the most jumps so Stips decided to enter it. Stips practised and practised her bouncing all day and all night. She didn’t even stop to have her supper.
On the Sunday when the competition was over Stips was the best bouncer and made over a million jumps. She won the biggest trophy and 5 million pounds for her Mum. Mum bought Stips a brand new trampoline that was so big it took up the whole garden.
By Nicole K
Chapter One - Long Ago
Long, long ago in a magic island called Dragon Island, there were dragons of types you could never imagine. There were nature dragons, mystery dragons, seal dragons, tiger dragons, electric and fire dragons. The island was very peaceful until one day the Dragon Slayers came.
The Dragon Slayers slew all the dragons that they could find. A few of the dragons managed to escape and survive including the last mystery dragon, but it was still in the egg and almost buried. The other dragons hid in a buried cave that only dragons could get into. The mystery dragons could only be killed with a special sword made of gold and precious power crystals that were found in dangerous places and deep under the ground.
Chapter Two - Found and Attacked
Almost a centry after the attack by the Dragon Slayers, the mystery dragon egg was found by two dragons. They found the egg while one of them was digging. The dragon hit something hard and white, so the other dragon began to help him dig round the object. When they took it out they realised it was an egg. The egg felt very smooth at first until a small crack began to appear. Then a little head appeared in the crack. It was a little baby dragon.
To be continued
Andres Hernandez
Add comment June 30th, 2008
The Primary 6 broadcasters from Sunnybank Primary school present this fine broadcast, including:
Add comment June 15th, 2008
After school I came back to collect my school bag. Got permission to go upstairs to the class. The classroom door was open, unlocked. Walked into the room. Door closed behind me. School bag was missing, the door was opening. Turned round. White suit, black eyes - a ghost ran under the table. Ghost walked towards the table. Over to the sink to wash his hands.
I found my bag and escaped. I ran out of the classroom and there was another ghost. I ran and ran and ran. The two ghosts ran after me. I saw my friend, “Please Help Me! There are two ghosts running after me ” I said to Keiran my friend in school. “There are ghosts in this school,” and he said “Oh no there isn’t”. “Oh yes there is!” “Okay, you win!” There was not just two ghosts, there were loads on the way down the steps. I saw Stevie. “Why are you running down the steps and on the way down the other steps we saw Liam.
“Why are you running down the steps?” shouted Liam. “Can’t talk!” “Why not ?” said Liam. “Because I am getting chased from ghosts!” “Okay, can I come?” “Okay………Hurry Up!!” “Coming,” shouted Liam. And we all went home.
1 comment December 11th, 2007
I was hurrying home from work. Everyday I passed St.Peters primary school. The children always wave to me but today there was a problem. There were fire engines. Four of them. The school was on fire. Luckily the children and staff were safe but not everyone. “Where’s Sam?” said a boy. No one knew where Sam was. Everyone shouted “Sam.” But no reply.
”Wait,” said one of Sam’s friends. “Did anyone see Sam’s desk this morning?”
“No,” said everyone. There was a note. It said: “You are next Sam signed the Fire Starter.”
As the fire stopped everyone stared at the burnt school trying to figure out who the Fire Starter was?
Ryan
1 comment December 11th, 2007
I was wallking home from school and I was late for tea. I saw a dark allyway and I knew that it was a shortcut to my street. When I was about half way down I saw an abandond house and not thinking about my tea I wallked in. There was blood splattered all across the wall and floor. The T.V. looked like it was a black and white T.V. The sofa was old and dusty.
The garden was full of weeds and its pond was dry and there were no plants whatsoever . In the kitchen there was no electricity apart from the cooker and the washing macine.
There was a noise upstairs and a voice. I stumbled up the stairs and there were four rooms one bathroom and three bedrooms. One of the bedrooms looked like it was just made and the other rooms looked like the rest of the house, old and damp. Then…
Stefan
1 comment December 11th, 2007
As I walked through the town my phone started to ring, I answered it and it was my boss telling me to go to a house on the east side to find out if these people had something to do with the Black Market . I didn’t know why he chose me but I went anyway.
It was a small house in need of repair. The white paint on the walls was peeling and a rusty gate had broken off its hinges and lay across the path leading to the door. There was no number on the door. I rearched for the handle, tried to open it and discovered it was unlocked. Although I didn’t have a warrant, I risked it and went inside.
I wassurprised there was no one in, so I headed for the front room. I could see they didn’t really care about the house because wallpaper was peeling off the walls, the carpets were damp and dirty, and the room smelt musty and of stale ash. I could see hundreds of cigarette ends and empty whisky bottles scattered about the floor. On an old and worn coffee table there was a framed photograph of a man and a woman, with wine glasses in their hands, looking drunk, and both had dark rings under their eyes.
Also on the table there were ten piles of cash in fifty pound notes
There was an answer machine on a stand in the corner of the room. I clicked it on and listened to the message. “Have you got the goods yet? if you do meet me at the docks at two.”
I looked at my watch and could see that it was three o’clock. Suddenly the door opened and I knew I was in trouble. Deep trouble.
Elliot
1 comment December 11th, 2007
I was walking into my friends house I smelt a burning smell. As I walked in I saw a set of golf clubs lying against the wall. I could still smell a horrible burning smell, I went upstairs to see if the smell was coming from up there.
I went into my friends room and I saw a celtic football strip there was also a psp and a ps3 also a wii and a ds beside them there was a masive plasma t.v. I wanted to have a shot of the wii so I put the t.v on but it would not go on. Strange I thought so I just left it. I could tell the smell was not coming from there. So I went into the room next door in that room there was another plasma t.v and there was a masive king size bed. The smell was definitly not from there so I went back down stairs. I could smell it really bad as i was going down the stairs. As I turned into the hallway I saw that the carpet was black and the smell was worse that it had ever been.
I walked into the room at the bottom of the living room I think it was the kitchen but I really could not tell because everything was burnt and there was glass all over the floor. As I walked through the glass I noticed a lighter. Did the person who set the fire drop it?
Morven
1 comment December 11th, 2007
I had just walked out of school. School was over. On my way home, I saw a smelly caravan beside the Junk Yard. The caravan was black and brown and the door was pink. The door was open wide. I went inside and a rope fell down. I continued and I saw blood on the windows and on the smelly socks. There was a calender on the wall. I saw Chuckie curtains. I saw two daggers on the windowsill and a machine gun and a sliced up finger with a key in it. So I opened the closet door and a dead body fell out. The man came back. His name was Freddie. I picked up the machine gun and shot him…
Michael
1 comment December 11th, 2007
The Murderer was in his twenties. He was a teacher. The first day he came he was greeted by the headteacher who said welcome to the Sunnybank. I will take you a round the school. They walked around the school. They stopped at one class. The head teacher said that this is your new teacher for the rest of the term untill your teacher comes back. The headtecher said I will go back to the office. I will come back at lunchtime.
The new techer said hello to the class. They said hello back then he said we will do some maths today and do some handstands. The class said “That is fine.” Then someone said that the teacher said that you will have to come down to the office because you willl have to come now. The teacher said that if you get your work wrong you will have to wipe the school windows! All the class were shocked if they got their work was wrong. Then the teacher was back
by Kieranl
1 comment December 11th, 2007
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