Creative Writing

As our Year 6 pupils approach the senior school entrance exams, they have been completing mock exams in their preparation lessons.

These are timed and in exam conditions and really help the children anticipate what the real exams will be like.

One of the mock exam question this week centred on creative writing. It was important that the children included ‘tone and tension’ and had to create something that was immediately exciting without a gradual build up.

All pupils have been significantly improving in confidence and enjoying the various challenges of the exam questions. We hope you like these few examples of many excellent answers.

Mason

The lightning tore the night sky apart and ripped at its belly. I heard vexed screams like ghosts. The battered ancient shed stood ominously in the pitch-black creepy darkness. I could feel the moon creeping up on me like a secret spy. The windy path slithered up to the doorway and the giant windows with their crooked shutters were shouting at me to come in...

Lauren

I took one step into the haunted house and something felt wrong. The floorboards were creaking under my feet and then suddenly a door slammed shut behind me. It was pitch black. I felt the wall to try and find the door again but the walls were slick and wet like rain. I stood still. I did not know what to do...

Apricity

The tall, towering steeples glared down at me, grinning maliciously. A cold corridor lured me to the centre of the building guiding me up stairs, frozen in time. Then the smell hit me. The smell of decaying flesh. Deep, deep down in the heart of the palace making me dizzy. Making my stomach lurch. There was a rumbling yet forlorn echo through the cas- tle willing me to move onwards. Paintings climb up the wall of old kings and queens star- ing into my soul with their pleading eyes to take them away from the eerie sounds of mice scratching and clawing...