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The Youngsters’ Forum has over 1,000 stories, blogs, animations and broadcasts from the youngsters who are the creative engine of the Reading Bus.

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Add comment November 6th, 2007

Handa’s Surprise

This film has been made by a group of youngsters who attend the EAL Centre. The Reading Bus regularly visits this centre which works with youngsters who are learning English as an alternative language. They did a fantastic job retelling the story of Handa’s Surprise!

Add comment August 5th, 2008

Monday 2nd June

Room 7 are very Excited!!!!!!!!. Today Migy has arrived at Woodside School. He is going to work with Primary 5 all week. Migy showed us the animatic - it is a storyboard of our film with our voices on it. We are all working in teams this week. The art and design team are working with Kirsty, the artist to design the backgrounds. The sound team are working with Naomi and Grace to create background music. The animator team are working with Migy and we are the broadcasting team. We are filming, recording and writing this on-line diary.

5 comments June 2nd, 2008

New Books section

Following the launch of the first two books by Reading Bus youngsters, we now have an interactive Books section. So now you can start flipping through the pages of Search Inside and From West Africa to Old Aberdeen online.

Happy reading!

Youngsters’ Forum > Books

Add comment May 13th, 2008

Fyvie Castle

Primary 5/6 from Causewayend School visited the Aberdeen Art Gallery with their class teacher and Sheena Blackhall and David Barry from The Reading Bus. The class were enthralled by storytelling sessions from Sheena using different paintings as the stimulus. Back in class the youngsters wrote fantastic poems, stories and plays using the paintings as the inspiration.

Fyvie Castle, 1828

James Giles RSA
Aberdeen 1801 - 1870

Aberdeen Art Gallery: Fyvie Castle

We hope you enjoy the following writing about Fyvie Castle:

By Jordan P6

Fyvie Castle

Fire coloured grass
Yellow stoned castle
Very dark and scary inside
Inside a skeleton lays
Everyone who goes in,
The ghost will get you.
Could the castle be haunted?
Anyone who goes in Fyvie castle
Skeletons will be on you
Strong stone walls
Towers are very old.
Long, long ago noblemen lived in Fyvie Castle
Everyone who visits is scared.

By Daniel Thompson p5

By Liam D P6

Add comment May 1st, 2008

Health animation

The pupils from St Machar Academy showed great creativity in dramatising some important health messages in these animations…

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Add comment March 5th, 2008

The Wine In The House

It was a flat. In the lock there was half a key still in it. It smelt of alchool. There was a red bag with papers in it. The tele was on stand by. There was a picture of him fishing and a few fishing rods with red marks. Through in the kitchen there letter mangets saying “must pay bills”. There was a drawer open it was the cutlery drawer. There was a knife on the ground. There was muddy foot prints coming from the front door. The bins at the flat had been racked in. There was a hand in the bin. Through in the bedroom there was unicyle on the wall and a picture of him at the circus.There was a mirror and and drawers with make-up. At the shed there was half a bike and humongous shoes. There was flowers but no flower pot……………….

Greg & Jordan    

Add comment December 19th, 2007

Missing

In the city of Liverpool is a very famous house which everybody wishes they could live in. As you walk into the house everything seems normal until you reach upstairs. Normally on the wall hangs a signed Pele shirt but today it is missing along with a captain’s arm band, which were framed, as they were from a cup final. These are irreplaceable because there is only one in the world.

Calum     

Add comment December 19th, 2007

Murder Scene

In the middle of nowhere, it was a wintry cold storm. There lived an old man called George, who was very lonely. He was watching T.V and he heard the birds giving their signal to go sleep. He watched all the birds fly away. After that he went to get a drink of water, but the water wasn’t coming through! So George went outside to pump up the taps, just one thing he did wrong! He left the door open. 

Meanwhile someone came into the old Cottage and hid in the kitchen. Five minutes after, George came back in and went straight to the kitchen to get a drink, gladly the water was coming through! As he was away to go back to the window he got stabbed twice in the back. He was left to die in pain for 10 whole minutes.

Shortly after, he died. The killer took George’s body up the stairs. And put it in the room and locked it. About 3 months later the killer turned the old cottage into a museum. Plenty of people came to see the museum. It cost £12.00 for an adult and £2.00 for a child to come in and see the museum. But one day a family came into see the museum and the killer was giving them a tour of the house, he said “ and this is his room where he studied about birds”. The teenager was part of the family who were coming to see the museum went upstairs when you were not allowed up stairs.

She tried to open the door where George’s body was but it was locked. She went into the bathroom the bath was full of blood with a dead body lying in it. She screamed so loud, her mum and dad came running up the stairs, they asked her what was wrong? She pointed to the bath they all screamed. The killer ran up the stairs and killed them all!

By Ashleigh

4 comments November 23rd, 2007

The Secondary School

I`m really looking forward to go to St Machar Academy because I want to feel a bit more grown up. I am really scared about getting lost and forgetting my honework. I`m also looking forward to wearing my new uniform. By Yerzhan

9 comments July 3rd, 2007