100 Word Challenge 9/5/18

I look to the kitten in her arms. It’s fluffy, charcoal coloured, and purring loudly.
“When did it arrive?” I ask her tentatively, wondering how close of a friendship the tiny cat had already formed with my friend.
“Oh, some time last night, I found him yowling his little head off outside the front door! Weren’t you my little fluffykins!” Refocusing on the cat, she begins tickling his chin.
My only friend so far at a new school seemed more interested in this lost mangy kitten than the new pair of socks I'd tried to talk to her about earlier.
Seemingly reading my mind, the wide yellow eyes of ‘Little Fluffykins’ meet mine in an intense glare. And so the inauguration of a long and jealousy fuelled rivalry.

100 Word Challenge 2/5/18

It's very early morning, and the air is damp and misty. I claw through the woods, panting and sore. Yesterday I had surged through the trees and countryside at breakneck speed, but over the course of the night been reduced to crawling through the filthy undergrowth, a seething mud splattered savage. At first I'd shouted for help, but no one would when they saw what was chasing me. To them I was already in my grave.
Frantically I look for somewhere to hide and rest my injured leg, which was throbbing painfully. Suddenly I hear branches snap. I've left a crimson trail of blood behind me. So I can't hide. And I can't run. And it's found me.

End of Day Reflective Question

Where did you meet success, and who might benefit most from what you've learnt along the way?

Today in Technology I successfully made a prototype dreamcatcher, and with that my group and I learnt how to find materials independently. This will probably benefit the teachers as they won't have us bugging them throughout the lesson.

Link to Refugee Activities

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100 Word Challenge 22/3/18

Fear.

I wake with a start and instinctively rub my eyes. Something is off. I'm a deep sleeper and never usually wake in the night. Surveying my room, I try find a clue as to what could have woken me. Out of the corner of my eye, I spot something pale and luminous. My muscles clench with fear, and goosebumps rush up and down my back. It's at the top of my chest of drawers. How did it get up there? What is it? All thoughts disappear instantaneously and I ogle in absolute horror as it falls onto my bed. I scream as my eyes rest apon it.

100 Word Challenge 13/3/18

A Child's Fantasy

Colourful clouds swirl and coil rapidly around each other. Leaves and wild flowers are tinted orange from the rising sun, which shows slivers of it's welcome face through the silver branches of trees. Giant teacups, plates and bowls of glinting porcelain scatter the forest, while the birds atop them sing their morning chorus. I float up from the ground and hover about the glistening tree tops, my bare feet tickled by twigs. The sky is full of softly coloured balloons who bob to my side, cherishing the sunrise with me. But this isn't the real world. And I still have real places to visit and real sights to see. So goodbye imagination, my dear friend, I hope to see you again.

100 Word Challenge 8/3/18

Rumors

Popularity. Relationships. Back talking. Rumors live like and die like flies, short lived and irrelevant, but now so common it seems acceptable to spread lies and exaggerations without consequence. The usual string of stories and ever constant use of the word 'apparently' is getting tiring to me, and an example of a definitive source of chitchat is unprecedently rare. But why is unconfirmed gossip part of  regular pupil talk anyway? Well, to answer that I'm sad to announce that 'Why don't we talk about Algebra!?' isn't a common conversation starter among Year 8 students. But what if I was in charge? I'm not sure what that would be like, as I'm fairly sure I won't ever be.