Story Competition

Last week I read the children the first chapter for a story. I challenged them to work in teams to plan, draft and write the next chapter. The first chapter was all about a magical hat that could take you to any place, real or fictional at any point in history or the future! This tied in perfectly with our Doctor Who topic and allowed the children to decide where the main character Phil and his enemy Big Bully Billy should go.

Below you will be able to read their second chapters for our class book. Please read each one carefully, then choose which is your favourite. Once you have chosen your favourite, use the voting box at the bottom to vote for your favourite. Children, remember you cannot vote for your own story chapter!

After the voting has closed for this chapter, we will start the process again and each group will write a third chapter. We will then put them on the blog to be voted on and the winner will go into the book.

The children came up with an excellent suggestion to make the competition fair: the winner of each chapter competition will not be in the vote for the next chapter. This will make sure that no groups end up having two chapters in a row in the book. Great idea, St. George's Class!

GROUP 1 - Chapter Two

Phil sprinted through the chocolate vaper, while Billy swam through the Seven-Up fountain.  What should Phil do? Billy saw a speed boat- this was his chance! He jumped and landed face first on the boat. Billy yelled, “Come back here you cheat!” Suddenly Phil fell onto a Sherbet Lemon.

“Let me out!” Phil shouted through tears. Now it was his turn, he jumped onto a chocky rock. There was Billy, he hadn’t seen him yet. He pitched forward and ran. Billy saw. “Got you, you rat!” He started to run, he jumped and landed in a Tea Canal…

 By GROUP 1: Abel, Harry, Plamedi, Theadora and Alice.

GROUP 2 - Chapter Two

-Sweetland!” Then he bumped his head and everything went black…

Phil landed with a bump. He was lying on a bed of candyfloss that was sticking to his skin. He pulled it off and sat up. There was no light so he felt his way to the door, pulled it open and stepped outside. It was NOTHING like where he lived. He wondered where he was for a moment, then remembered his wish. He was in Sweetland!

Time to go exploring! But wait! What was that? There was an enormous poster on the wall beside him. It looked important, so he read it. What?! Rumplestiltskin and Mario had kidnapped one of the Twelve Dancing Princesses! He was going on a mission.

The forest was cold and gloomy, and Phil was hungry. He had long since passed out the trees full of food. He decided to go to sleep, and just as he was dozing off, there was a rumbling, and suddenly…

By GROUP 2: Agatha, Ella, Roderick and Amelie C.

GROUP 3 - Chapter Two

So the hat took him to the Dinosaur Times and he flew viciously through the air. He landed on a rock and saw dinosaurs and scattered fossils. He felt scared because he had never seen real fossils in his life.

He ran really fast and he ran up a hill, but it was actually a massive dinosaur. Then the dinosaur turned around and Phil skidded down its back and landed in the squelchy mud. Phil said, “I should not have gone to the dinosaur times!”

Phil was trying to go back in the hat. After a while, he could feel something was going to happen. He imagined Big Bully Billy was going to come. It was just like a nightmare for Phil. He opened his eyes and saw a hat. The hat looked just like the hat that had brought him to the dinosaur times.

But it was Big Bully Billy who had tricked Phil. Phil was running and running until he jumped onto a dinosaur and…

 

By GROUP 3: Joseph, Ellis, Michael, Leo, Amélie S.

 

 

GROUP 4 - Chapter Two

“I know! The Great Wall of China! No, no, the Mediterranean- wait I have got it- Transylvania with the Toy Story crew.”

Woooshhhh!

Big Bully Billy gets into disguise as Phil and tell the Hat of Transportation to come and take him to Transylvania.

When Big Bully Billy get there and he is standing next to Phil and finds himself opposite Dracula. Next to Dracula is his daughter and Billy falls in love with her, to be his girlfriend. She says, “I am Phil’s girlfriend.”

Billy finds Phil and tries to hurt him and Dracula is in his way so he beats him up, and then Toy Story burst into the room. Then Jessie says, “You! What are you doing to my friend?” They start a war.

Big Bully Billy and Zourg on one side and the rest on the other side, the battle began and…

By GROUP 4: Aisling, Nathan, Molly, Kate and Luke.

 

GROUP 5 - Chapter Two

“I want to go somewhere fun and exciting! What about the Amazon Jungle?”

The cap says, “As you wish.” A puff of smoke and we’re off.

“I wonder what animals I could meet there?”

Suddenly, a monkey appeared as brown as a bear. I stood there for three minutes while the monkey imitated me. I turn around and realise there’s a whole family.

They start to run away and I question myself, “What are they running away from?” I feel a creature rush past my foot. I look down, “Nothing there apart from a snake… A SNAKE!”

Now I feel scared, I start running for my life. Trees pass me like a blur. Suddenly something appears and…

 

By GROUP 5: Hana, Evelyn, Sonny, Aimee and Antonio

 

Which Chapter Should Be Next in Our Book?