KS3 Fantasy Fiction

Children were tasked with reading the start of a fantasy story and then it was up to them to carry the story on, using fantasy codes and conventions.  Children were encouraged to use a full range of punctuation and a wide variety of language devices such as similes, onomatopoeia and alliteration.  Once their piece of writing was finished, some of the children used AI to create an illustration for their story.

Please see the fantastic responses below from some of the children (this is all their own work and has not been edited):

By Tulisa Wrigley:

Elsa bent over and went to touch the hidden button, that was hidden inside the big round, glowing globe. The button was a glowing purply, sandy yellow and bright red colour. It glowed like the sun in the swimming pool. She pushed the big button and this big, bright light came out of it, It shined like a shooting star in the night sky. It was so blinding! It was so bright, but so beautiful.

She got sucked into it and span round in the air. Then she closed her eyes and screamed! Then she stopped spinning and screaming… she opened her eyes but didn’t know where she was! It was hot like the Sahara Desert, like a hot cup of tea, NO HOTTER than that! It was so hot that you could have cooked an egg on the hot bubbling tarmac. It was that hot.

Elsa walked around a bit. There were trees, but they did not give any shade whatsoever from the blistering heat. She kept walking around and on her travels she saw a horse – it was brown like an acorn, it was so pretty.

She continued walking and she came across a dinosaur! Yes a Dinosaur! It was purple and brown in colour. It was humongous. But it was so friendly. The dinosaur even smiled at her ands waved. It started too speak to her it said “Hi, how are you? I am Flufow and who are you?”

Elsa was surprised so surprised to have had conversation with a dinosaur. Elsa said back to Flufow “ umm H-H-Hi I-I-I am Elsa you can call me Elsa, what are you doing here?” Flufow said “ I don’t know but I must go now goodbye”

By Brodie Carr (Bean)

Elsa opens her eyes and the lights start crackling and a portal opens glowing bright green!  Elsa walks through the green portal, trips and then falls on to pink cotton like clouds.  Elsa hears a racket noise from behind the clouds, and a loud squawk.

Two steam punk robot parrots, riding on a pink old elephant try to sneak up on Elsa.  The elephant’s-tired eyes look down at the little girl’s shiny red hair pin which looks familiar.  The elephant speaks up with a thundering roar, “Where did you get that glimmering, scarlet hair pin?”  The parrots mimic the elephant with high squeaky voices, which you can barely hear over the screeching noise from their old rusty gears “Where did you get that glimmering scarlet hair pin?”

The elephant gets very angry, opens his mouth, grabs the girl with his snake-like trunk and eats her like a sausage roll! Crunch, crunch.  The two steam punk parrots gasp!  Parrot one asks, “What did she taste like?”  The elephant replied she tasted just like creamy, crunchy chocolate.”

By Dolly Cresswell

As snaps of lightening sparks shoots out from the golden ball, she retracts her hand and begins to wave her hand in the air, in a desperate attempt to sooth the burning sensation lingering on her finger tips.

Elsa’s brows furrow in a mixture of fascination and confusion with what had just happened.   Letting her curiosity overpower her fear, she extends her arm out as a low hum fuelled with anxiety escapes her throat.

“No Elsa, don’t be stupid” she snaps to herself like a lecturing parent, distancing her hand from the ball again.

Her eyes examine the room, landing on a dusty rag, scrunched up in a crinkled ball in the corner of the room.  Elsa lifts the ancient rag in the air with two fingers as if she is holding a bag of stinking rubbish.  As she throws the rag on the golden orb, she releases a sigh that filled the room and strolled back out through the door.

By Paul Ward

She touched the ball with her index finger and pressed the tiny button that was hidden under one layer of gold,

Then a massive bright light, blinding like the sun, created a giant ball around her slim body. Suddenly the floor fell through, and massive cave opened in front of her. She walked into the cave and unexpectedly, the rocks were falling behind her, and the walls were closing in on her.

Then she started to run as fast as lighting, towards the exit. She saw a massive waterbed in front of her and the water was crystal clear like glass. She jumped into the water and there was a massive splash what sounded like rain, and across from her there was a hot tub, and it sounded like sizzling bacon.

She got chased out of the hot tub by a flock of bat’s and She RUNS, through another, cave and then, quickly the wall’s collapse, in front of her and, she turns around, and then the wall, were falling in behind her and then she’s started to Scream! Then the ceiling fell on to her.