Mid Calder Primary

Bullying Stories - P7B October 9, 2008

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P7B wrote stories about a bully and a victim. We focused on character description and used adverbs and adjectives to make our writing interesting and exciting for the reader. Ciara and Ewan achieved this target very well and were chosen to be our ‘Star Writers’. Here are their stories.

We hope you enjoy reading them.

The Bully By Ewan

As Louis Webber walked towards the silent alleyway he saw Nicky Black. Her nickname was the Rock, because when anyone tried to hurt her she just stood and sarcastically laughed. She wasn’t built like a wrestler. Her arms and legs were as thin as twigs. She was just mean and no one else had the guts to stand up to her.

She had jet black hair that had purple and orange streaks. It descended down just below her smooth shoulders. The only sign of fringe on her pale face was the section of hair that hung limp over her sharp, blue, left eye. It was evident that she used far too much eye shadow. The shadow cast by it made her bright eyes look black. Her left arm rested weakly inside a rusty crutch. Her left side seemed cursed. She wore a pitch black t-shirt. The left sleeve had been ripped off probably from a previous fight. She had denim jeans which had cigarette burns in them. Louis knew that they were there because of neglect at home. She wore white trainers or at least they used to be white, but were now brown with mud.

She stepped slowly forward and Louis tripped and fell. (more…)

P5B The Outdoor Classroom October 4, 2008

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Steve Bretel is an environmental musician. Money was allocated from our lottery grant to provide some of Steve’s workshops on music in the outdoors. So far he has worked with P3, 4, & 5. Future workshops have been arranged with other classes.

P4 and P5 experienced music in our outdoor classroom. P3 participated in a drum circle.