Story Spotlight: My school is alive!

Enjoy some fantastical extracts from Rushmore school’s anthology My School is Alive! 

This spring term the students from Year 3 Rowan and Acacia classes created the fantastic anthology My school is Alive! with Ministry of Stories Writing Facilitator Jennifer Claessen. This anthology is a joyous, fantastical celebration of 150 years of Rushmore Primary School; here’s a couple of extracts from the young writers’ work:

My school is alive!

My school is alive and it speaks French!
Bonjour l’ecole!
My school is alive and it is dressed in
display boards covered in work.

My school is alive and it is wearing school uniform,
polka-dotted with our house team colours.
It wears a dress made of Creativity and Kindness, our values!

My school has been alive since the Victorian times.
It tells us: “you are great students and teachers”.
My school is alive and it says, “Welcome!
Are you ready to learn?”

My school is alive and looks like a queen.
It says “I’m so hungry for big bellyfuls of people!”
Our classroom is its stomach!

My school is alive and it says, “Hello, would you like some help?”.
There are two bits of it, Mrs Mary is the Lower Phase
and Mr Tom is the Upper Phase, and the children are
Little Mitty. Our school keeps growing!

This pencil is a twig, it is sharp, thick and long.
P.E. is the colour yellow because everyone is excited. Art is the colour green because it is calm.
The playground is the colour red because everyone is shouting!
My uniform is green. On my jumper, there is a tree, red and yellow.
School is green because they teach you all the Rushmore values and happy stuff.
Our classroom is snow: cold, white walls, fun to play in.

Our classroom is like a park,
there are so many different things to do.
The ceiling is as high as the sky!
School is a football game,
we do it with our friends.
Learning is scoring goals, it feels happy.