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L.O. to create a weird and wonderful school

What type of school would you like best?

Magic School

Sport School

Monster School Princess

School

Spy School

Superhero School

What would

make your

school

special?

Or something else...?


This week your task is to create weird and wonderful schools…either somewhere really great or somewhere really horrible!

Your first task is to choose the theme of your school.

Finally, write a short paragraph to describe your school.

Challenge!

Design a logo or badge for

the school.

Description of my schoolHiding behind a tree, I gazed up towards the ivy covered building standing crooked on the hill. Wondering what was behind those wooden doors. My eyes scanned the tall turrets and the grey stone walls made me shiver.

All of a sudden, a rumble of thunder shook the earth and a flash of lightening sped through the sky. CRASH! BANG! I pulled my jacket tight around my body. What was mum thinking sending me here, it looked like it was straight out of a horror comic!

Picking up my heavy cases, I made my way down the

cobbled path to the entrance. Above the colossal

doorway hung a sign, ‘Welcome to Chilly Bones School

for Monsters, the finest academic establishment for

beasts, creatures, ghouls and fiends’.


Your next task is to create some characters for your school…teachers, students, parents, cleaners and anybody else that you might need!

We need pictures of them and some information about them – they are important, because we can’t have a school with nobody in it!

Don’t forget to include some good and some bad characters – it will make your school more interesting!

Challenge!

Choose one of your

characters and write

a character

description.

Name: Mr Lupin – Head teacher

Age: 164

Height: 1.9m

Strengths:• Extremely powerful yet slender body.• Fabulous climber, even on slippery rocks.• Skin like leather, which is impervious to fire.

Weaknesses:• Vile stench makes him easy to find.• Incredibly intelligent.• Terrified of mighty wizards.

Special powers:• Has some weak magic, including invisibility.• Is able to survive for several days without

food or water.


Good or bad

character?

Position in the

school?

Character description• “Welcome, all of you, I am Mr Lupin, your new

headmaster of this marvellous establishment, “ he announced as he glared at the pupils as they sat, spellbound on the hall floor. There wasn’t an ounce of friendliness in his voice.

• The young monsters and ghouls looked at the man standing in front of them. He was tall and thin, dressed in an immaculate black suit. From his shoulders, a long, black teacher’s gown hung in heavy folds, like wings, giving him the appearance of a huge crow. Only his head was startlingly white. Fair hair, almost as colourless as snow, lay round a face with paper-white skin and crimson lips. His eyes were hidden behind dark glasses, like two black holes in the middle of all the whiteness.

Name:

Age:

Height:

Strengths:

Weaknesses:

Special powers:

Good or bad character?

Position in the school?

Session 2


Let’s find out a little bit more about your school.

The next task is to write an information leaflet about your school. It could include:•Details about the lessons•Information about the facilities•What the school is famous for•Why somebody should go there to learn•Successes of the school or famous pupils•Location of the school•Why it is better than other schools•Anything else that is interesting!

Challenge!

Create a comic strip showing a day

in the life of your school.


Welcome to Chilly Bones School for Monsters, the finest academic establishment for beasts, creatures, ghouls and fiends in the entire world. At Chilly Bones, we believe in giving all young monsters the chance to fulfil their true potential and to become feared by ‘normal’ children across the globe. With our hideous collection of teachers and our bloodthirsty curriculum, we feel sure that Chilly Bones will make all your school nightmares come true!

Lessons:The teachers at Chilly Bones are all highly experienced in delivering vile and bloodcurdling lessons to monster children of all ages. With a focus on developing key skills in roaring, wild personalities and general misbehaviour, we ensure that all pupils are given a strong basis for their future as monstrous creatures of the night.

Our school (pictured below) has all of the most up-to-date scaring facilities, including roaring rooms, terror chambers and spooky cupboards. Your little monsters will love to learn here!


Now it’s time for some creative writing about your school.

Your next task is to write a short story or comic strip about an adventure in your school. You can use the characters and ideas that you have already created to get you started.

Remember to think about the style or genre of your story – will it be horror, adventure, comedy, romance or something else?

Challenge!

Try designing a cover

page and blurb for your

short story or comic

strip.


After six years of moving to different schools, Lizzy and Eddie Harker thought they had seen it all. They had been pupils on a boat school in Singapore, at a mountain top shack in the Alps and even in a medieval castle in a remote Hungarian forest – their parents travelled far and wide for their work and the two children were always uncomplainingly dragged along for the ride. Now, however, as Lizzy and Eddie gazed up for the first time at the huge spooky looking castle of their latest school building, they both felt something strange and uncomfortable; this place felt, well...different.A long cobbled path led up to the colossal wooden front door, which looked to have been firmly locked for many years. The painted sign above the door was extremely faded, but the children could just about make out the words ‘Chilly Bones School For M...’

Chilly Bones


“School for M...?” muttered Eddie. “What does that mean?”“No idea,” replied Lizzy. “Why don’t we go up and find out? You first.”Normally, Lizzy would never pass up the chance to make the first impression at a new place, but her usual confidence was missing this morning and the sight of this unwelcoming building was not doing much to build it back up again.Eddie took a tentative towards the building. Satisfied, there was nothing to worry about he made his way up to the entrance. Eddie could see that the door seemed to be bulging outwards, swelling as though some powerful force were trying to burst out and reach for him or, even worse, pull him inside. A cold sweat had broken out across his body, even though it was a warm September morning, causing Eddie to wonder again what it was about this place...why did it feel so strange?


“Hurry up!” groaned Lizzie, “these bags way a tonne and it’s starting to rain.”“Welcome,” echoed a voice in the darkness.The two spun around. Someone was coming towards them. He was tall and thin, dressed in an immaculate black suit. From his shoulders, a long, black teacher’s gown hung in heavy folds, like wings, giving him the appearance of a huge crow. Only his head was startlingly white. Fair hair, almost as colourless as snow, lay round a face with paper-white skin and crimson lips. His eyes were hidden behind dark glasses, like two black holes in the middle of all the whiteness. TO BE CONTINUED…


Lizzy and Eddie Harker were starting the first day at their new school.

The creepy school building did not look very inviting.

Chilly Bones...how would you complete the comic strip?

Chilly BonesLooks a bit

weird!

You can go first!

Gee, thanks!

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