As a part of our Book Week celebrations, two teams of students participated in the Write a Book in a Day challenge. Each team was given a set of parameters – two human characters, one non-human character, a setting and an issue on which they had to write their stories. The students worked brilliantly together to plan, write, edit, illustrate and publish their two books by 5pm on the day.

The Year 5 team wrote ‘Jake and the Mysterious Box’, based on a ballet dancer, a tailor, and a turtle in a café with a mysterious gift. The Year 6 team wrote ‘Doll-anator’, based on a botanist, a soldier, and a doll in the sand dunes with a missing backpack. The stories were very creative and well written!

Congratulations to Charlie Ellard, Sadie Clarke, Xavier Brooks, Lucas Nguyen, Rosy Zhang, Calista Anamourlis, Jaryd Kroonstuiver, Hannah Mazidi, Phoebe Durham, Jake Battersby, Matthew Payton, Paige McKenzie, Moesha Dube and Jamie Weatherill.

Amber Thornhill

Primary Years Team Leader