If you’re reading this for the first time, then welcome. Welcome to this blog that has been set up by the children and adults of Year 5 and 6 at St. Mary’s Catholic Primary School in Bognor Regis. We’re pleased you’ve joined us here and we’re hoping that, over time, this page is going to filled with lots of comments and ideas related to our latest writing project.
In our team here, we are passionate about reading and writing, and we’ve recently been using a short film called ‘RUIN’ as video inspiration for our literary creations. You can watch that film here if you’re interested.
With ‘RUIN’ as our inspiration, all the 97 children in our three Year 5_6 classes (named Regis, Hotham and Wheatland) have written a narrative based on this great short film. This has been written over the course of a week, breaking down the film into different parts and allowing the children (and maybe even the adults) to write their interpretation of the story in their own words.
The 8-minute film follows an unknown character in what looks like a post-apocalyptic, sky-scraper-filled city that is punctuated by trees growing out of buildings’ windows and vines and bushes littering the pavements and roads. Our character, unknown at this point, is alone, searching for something in a derelict building, and subsequently retrieves a mysterious device. At this point, he is detected by a ferocious gyrocopter who clearly doesn’t have lots of time for our character and proceeds to chase him through the streets. We are unsure whether the film’s protangonist is fighting for the good guys or the bad guys, but this allows for some great interpretation by our classes’ amazing writers.
So, what are we all going to do with these amazing creations that are written in class? Well, instead of just having that story written in their books at school, we have decided to give each child ONE envelope in which they place their own written and published version of the story, and their job has been to hide this somewhere in the big, wide world. This world COULD just be Bognor Regis, but some children in the past have been sneaky and have taken it (or had it taken) on planes to different countries before hiding it somewhere completely different. Anyone going on a trip to Australia soon?!
If you’re reading this, there’s a chance you’ve found one of these incredible stories, and we’re encouraging you to write some comments about whose story you’ve read (no surnames please – for obvious reasons!). Let us know what you liked about their story, what language you particularly enjoyed, and generally provide your honest and (hopefully) positive feedback!
In addition to comments about the story you’ve found, please do let us know where you found the story and, if you still have it, can you please put it back out into that great, big, wide world out there for some other lucky person to chance upon it and enjoy our creations!
Lastly, just some instructions on how to leave comments.
Happy reading!
St Mary's Catholic Primary School - Story Hiding 
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