WHALE STORY - YEAR 2 AND YEAR 8 WORKING TOGETHER!

Our Year 8 student, Darija, is one of a group of fantastic writers in our school. When asked to write a story for a practice test, she did a lovely job. The task was to finish a story about a sad whale and to make it suitable for a magazine for young readers, so what better place to put it in than here! Darija offered to try reading her story in Year 2, and ended up inspiring them for their Art project! Why Year 2? Because the story is about a whale and Year 2 are all about Water World! Here is the story, so that you too can enjoy a trip to the imagination, and below you can see images of this wonderful inter-generational collaboration! What a great community!

One night the whale rose, but the moon was nowhere to be seen. The whale was frustrated and sad, and had no idea what to do. Suddenly, it spotted a bird on the horizon. It was a seagull. It landed to rest at the tip of the worried whale's nose.

The seagull asked: 'Oh whale, what is wrong? What is making you worry so much? A majestic creature like you shouldn't be frustrated?'

The whale replied in a sad voice: 'The moon - it's missing. It's gone. I don't have anyone to sing to now.'

The seagull gasped and flew straight up as fast as lightning. That saddened the whale even more as it thought that the seagull abandoned it and so it was lonely all over again. It let out a cry that made the entire globe suddenly shake. After a few seconds, the globe went back to its stillness, but the whale's realisation struck it as it noticed a strange light was peeking through something it didn't know was a cloud.

The seagull that had disappeared was sitting again on the tip of the whale's nose, with a relieved look on its face.

Then it blurted out: 'The moon is not gone - it's just hiding. It said that it was playing hide-and-seek with some of his friends, the stars, and it was hiding in a cloud.'

So that night, the whale and the seagull became best friends and the whale started to sing to both the seagull and the moon.

(story by Darija T., Year 8)