Monday's Classes

Fable writing is something we have decided to do with our students to get them to focus on paring back a story to the bare bones of it and looking at it in its most simplistic form. We have done this with our Year ten group and our Year Eights. With Year Ten we have had to prolong the exercise over the course of two classes but with Year Eight they were able to see the point of it straight away and get straight down to business, bashing out their fables in about twenty minutes with the morals of their stories that were logical and occasionally humorous. The Year ten group preferred to focus on the human like qualities of the animals they used and as a result their fables were a good bit longer than the younger students.

Here we have chosen the three best fables from each group to share with you:

 

Ethan Wallace Year 8

A ladybug found another really cute ladybug and wanted to marry her, so they got married straight away. After a few years the man ladybug saw the female ladybug’s personality and wanted a divorce. Her personality was really bad and she was greedy and didn’t care about anything.

Moral: Don’t marry someone just because of their looks because you can be beautiful but with an ugly personality and you can be ugly with a beautiful personality.

 

Lucia Eiriz Year 8

There was a dog and one day while he was asleep he heard a strange noise and when he woke up he saw that his owner was holding a furry thing in his arms. He realised it was a cat! He didn’t like the cat. He thought that his owner didn’t like him now, he liked the cat. A month later the three of them were walking in the forest the cat was trying to play with him, but he didn’t want to play so he walked in another direction. But he got trapped in a  hunter’s net. He passed hours inside and fell asleep.  He woke when he heard some noise, the cat was creeping the tree to save him. He got saved and thanked the cat and since then they are friends. And the dog realised that the cat is not so bad at all.

Moral: Don’t judge someone without knowing them.

 

Alvaro Cangni Year 8

A bear was having a walk when he found a big rock in his way. Next to the rock there was a spider. The spider was very intelligent and the bear was very strong. The bear tried to take the rock out of the way but he couldn’t, it was too big for him. But the spider knew how to take it out of the way, as she had thought of a way using physics and logic to move the rock. So she told the bear how to do it. And they both were able to move the rock and continue their path.

Moral: Strength in union. Teamwork.



Year 8 Students Ethan, Alvaro and Lucia

 

Julen Sharp Year 10

Once there was a man who had a monkey and a donkey as his friends and pets. The monkey was always doing smart things but he also did naughty things, but his ownder never told him off. His donkey always did the work and never did clever thingsand whenever he did anything wrong he got hit. One night when they got lost the monkey ran away, but the donkey stayed with his master all night long and protected him. In the end the master started to value the donkey more and never hit him again.

Moral: Never value intelligence and cuteness over hard work and loyalty.

 

Caleb Josiah Wallace Year 10

The boy was reading, watching his little cat play with his little kitty toys on top of the balcony which was the highest in the building. The cat was flying around the place in joy when he played with its toys but accidentally slipped through the metal bars on the side of the balcony and fell. The boy saw it happen and rushed down the seven storied building to see his little cat on the floor. He cried hoping to see his cat get up but he didn’t.

Moral: You only get one chance, not seven.

Note- Although we commonly say a cat has nine lives, in Spain a cat is alleged to have seven lives.

 

Paula Gimare Year 10

One beautiful summer day the food collection started for the ants. As they went and found all types of seeds and fruits, little ant on her way found an enormous corn seed. She tried to get it on top of her back with all her strength. Little ant had only a few steps to reach home with the seed. Suddenly a cheeky fox got in her way and tried to argue with her. The fox offered her a change, she will give him the seed and he will give her the whole plant. Little ant agreed, she gave him the seed; but when he had it in his hands he ran away with it. As he disappeared into the forest he saud: “ You were cheated little ant. So innocent!” The ant went crying home but surprisingly she found a whole plant , full of seeds, she called her friends and they all used their union to take it home. They had food for the rest of the year from only that plant.

Moral: Cheaters never prosper, union and loyalty is the key.

 

With our Year 9 group we set them the desert Island task which we had previously given to our year 8 and 9 classes. They had to work in teams with their assigned characters and items to aid them in their survival. We again gave them names from our class for their characters. We chose the two best groups. This time we got two interesting accounts on Neil Kavanagh and Mark Galvin, accompanied with drawings that are exact likenesses for both!

 

Jaime, Pedro, Alexia and Paloma – Year 9

 

THE TIMES

Survival of Neil Kavanagh



Year 9's story about their character Neil, stranded on an island.

 

 

Neil, a 53 year old man has survived on a desert island for four months.

We interviewed him and he talked to us about how he survived on that island. Firstly he told us about how he got there, he wanted a adventure in his boring life so he decided to jump off a plane at 2000 km above the surface. When he landed on the island the weather was tremendously disgusting because it was raining.

The first thing he did was to place down a tent and furthermore he made fire with his matches and the leaves that he found on the sandy beaches.

Weeks later, the weather was better, Neil decided to use his hand saw to cut down trees in case the weather changed dramatically and with these he could make fire using a lipstick he found. It was important to remember that the lipstick was flammable.

Two months later Neil had health problems because he didn’t have enough vitamins in his body. But with good luck he had vitamins in his bag because he knew he would have these type of problems. He survived.

The End.

 

David, Barra, Marcos, Alejandra - Year 9

 

Mark Galvin

Year 9's artistic impression of their character Mark Galvin.

Mark is on a deserted island. He needs to survive or he will die. Mark is trying to look for food but he is struggling to find some. He only had these four items in his bag: Hunting rifle, rope, mirror and a knife. It was very hot on that deserted island so he jumped in the cold sea where he saw fish, he thought he could get them with his hand but he couldn’t. He looked in his bag and got the knife out to fish.

Mark saw that the clouds were coming so he got out the knife and started cutting the trees to make his house. He gets the rope and joined some trees to tie them together to have a place to sleep and stay warm at night. Then inside the hut he puts up a hammock and goes to bed.

The next morning he wakes up, it has stopped raining and the sky is clear. He was hungry so he went deeper into the jungle to get coconuts and bananas and he got his rifle out and shot a monkey. He needed to cook it with something so he got his mirror out and using the sun reflected it onto some wood to make fire. He made fire and started cooking with two sticks. He thinks it’s not a bad place to stay at all.