English classes have recently been busy writing poems and stories for various competitions.
Many thanks to our S6 judges: Blair Mackenzie, Anthony MacInnes, Brooke MacDonald and Isla Beaton.
S1 Class ‘Animal Poem’ Competition Winners!
Mrs MacIntyre’s S1 class entered the ‘Animal Poem’ competition with house points to be awarded for the prize-winning poems.
Here are the winning poems:
FIRST PRIZE – Elle Currie (Borgh)
Bats!!!
Flying, flying in the sky
Bats are neat, I’ll tell you why!
Flying squirrels are the tallest
Bumble bee bats are the smallest.
Bats are Yellow, Red and brown,
Bats sleep hanging upside down!
Some eat bugs and some eat fruit
Some look mean and some look cute.
Flying, flying in the sky
Bats are neat and now you know why!
SECOND PRIZE – Sarah MacDonald (Scolpaig)
Tiger
Crick crack the grass snaps
as the tiger ploughs through the dead grass,
not an animal in sight nor creature to fight
just an empty field, no sign of life
in comes a lion ready to fight, no fear in its eyes just some might
The tiger in shock feeling tight, only one thing to do is to fight.
Both eyes now meet with some fear
both tiger and lion tear ear from ear
the victorious tiger wins the fight
and the unfortunate lion sleeps tonight.
THIRD PRIZE (1) – Sophie Campbell (Ormacleit)
Chicken
Last night I dreamed of chickens,
There were chickens everywhere,
They were standing on my stomach,
They were nesting in my hair,
They were pecking at my pillow,
They were hopping on my head,
They were ruffling up their feathers
as they raced around my bed.
They were on the chairs and tables,
They were on the chandeliers,
They were roosting in the corners,
They were clucking at my ears,
There were chickens, chickens, chickens
for as far as I could see...
When I woke up today, I realized...
there were eggs on top of me!
THIRD PRIZE (2) – Ewan MacLean (Borgh)
Creatures under the sea to the top of a mountain.
On top of a mountain, or under the sea.
Away in a desert or alone in a barn,
Or tucked in a tree trunk.
Hiding from all the harm.
On Bright, sunny grasslands,
Or in a dark cave.
In jungles and forests
Where all must be brave.
On ice in the Arctic,
Or holed underground
There are so many places
Where creatures can be found.
S2 Literacy Class Competition Winners!
The S2 Literacy class entered another competition where they had to come up with a 100-word story on the theme of ‘Grim Tales’. The winners were as follows:
FIRST PRIZE – Archie MacPhee
The Bricklaying Pig
After the big bad wolf huffed and puffed and blew all over the houses of the three little pigs the final pig decided to make a business out of the brick laying, advertising the strong brick house among the village of pigs that feared the mighty wolf. The bricklaying pig made a fortune and once he’d made every house in the village he had gone to many villages, but once the wolf had figured out the trick of the brick he knew another food needed to be eaten, maybe a mole? A rabbit? But not a pig for a while.
SECOND PRIZE – Orla Steele
The Shadow
I woke up to a shadow coming from my door, I was shaking really badly. But then they left, I heard my door close, so I got up. Everything was the same, nothing had changed. I looked out the window and saw a tall dark figure looking at me. It only had eyes on its face nothing else. I ran downstairs to lock all the windows and doors, but I wasn’t quick enough. The figure was in my house. I hid in my wardrobe. I heard it looking for me. It came inside the wardrobe and then everything went black.
THIRD PRIZE – Peter MacGillivray
Grimmle the Lobster
My name is Grimmle the lobster. I am someone you know nothing about. I am an evil lobster you don't know the truth about. I am an evil lobster owner of north lobster sea, and I kill anyone who challenges me. I have an army of 60 blue lobsters that nobody can defeat. I own over half the North Sea, and it all belongs to me. I don't have children for I am an evil lobster and nobody likes me. I am a bully in lobster city, and nobody knows the proper truth about the real me.
