Welcome to our Library of Stories. Please click on the story title to read Chapter 1.
These are collaborative story openings created by school groups and community groups.
Each participant writes their own Chapter 2.
Holy Child Primary School, P6 and P7
28th March 2023
Once in the forest it was a rainy day. Balloon fell out of a tree and into a truck. The truck was on its way to a nuclear power plant and it was full of fruit and vegetables. The truck driver, Smoker, was from Ohio and was an ex-army man. He wanted to mutate his cargo to take over the world and some day the universe...
Word Warriors
23rd March 2023
Fade In:
Scene 1
EXT: In the jungle, night
ZAZ is a werewolf. He is using his claws to scrape through vines in a jungle. There is a full moon. TOM, standing in his hotdog stand, stares up at it full of wonder. He is waving, trying to persuade the monkeys to come and buy a hot dog...
St Patrick's Primary School, Holywood, P4
23rd March 2023
Once upon a time, there was somebody called Jigalee the banana. One night, he decided to go for a wee walk. He was on his way to the forest when he saw his best friend, Lula the kitten...
Everyone who came to his store wanted to buy these shoes but brought them back when they noticed all of their other shoes were all ripped up and the red shoes were trying to eat their toes.
Evil Shoes had started by biting the shoe seller’s toes and ripping up all the shoes in the shop. The shoe seller started painting other shoes red to disguise them, and Evil Shoes was painted brown. People didn’t realise this until everyone started getting their toes bit....
Holy Trinity Primary School, P5
21st March 2023
Firstly, there was a kid called Einstein (he was a uniquely juicy apple!). He once was the apple of his teacher’s eye, but then one day he fell from his tree with a SPLAT and a SQUISH! He lost a lot of juice, and got a concussion. He was rushed to hospital and the doctor said he couldn’t afford to stay in the hospital so he had to stay at home in his own bed.
Word Warriors learned two folklore stories with Janice Witherspoon from Armstrong Storytelling Trust
The Story of Ailsa Craig and Molly and the Leprechaun. They drew illustrations to help remember the picture and then retold the stories brilliantly to the whole group.
Strandtown Primary School, Ms Johnston's P4
16th March 2023
A 100 Years Project workshop
There was a girl called Violet who had a horse that she could speak to! She had everything she wanted, except a diary. So she went down to the woods, and said to a fox, “Okay big guy, please can I have a diary”...
Strandtown Primary School, Ms McLaughlin's P4
15th March 2023
A 100 Years Project workshop
The time capsule was found in the garden of Strandtown Primary School, under a tree.
A 17 year old guy called Frank was a garden cleaner at the school. He was working in the garden and he found it. He was very excited and he ran back into the school.
He told Ms Honeybee that there was a random box in the school garden. Ms Honeybee said, “Stop being silly, there are no boxes outside!”...
Joe had a little boy who was very lonely and he wanted to give him something for his birthday. He really wanted his little boy to be happy. He didn’t have any money because he had given it all to charity...
To see it’s iron surface,
With powder hovering around it.
We jump out of the car,
we had so much fun
And I’m starting to get tired.
Where can we go next?...
