One day we were walking through a spooky forest and we found a suitcase with lots of stickers all over it. We opened it up and it sucked us all in! We went straight to a fairy tale land where at first we met the three little pigs who were building a house of bricks. Some of us decided to stay and help and the others carried on…

We soon came across a girl called Little Bo Peep who was upset and had lost her sheep. She asked us if we would help to look for them. We said yes, but on the way came across a creepy, wobbly bridge. We decided to walk across but saw that there was an ugly, mean, ginormous troll underneath. We were scared but walked across anyway. He jumped on top of the bridge and we screamed. He looked scared too and told us that he was in fact a friendly troll and he would help us to look for the sheep. We carried on with our journey.

As we walked on, we stumbled across a boy, a little older than us trying to climb up an enormous beanstalk that rose into the clouds. We knew from the storybooks that this was Jack.

He told us that he was climbing the beanstalk to find food for him and his poor mother. From the top of the beanstalk we could hear a strange sound, we decided to climb up and investigate. It was a very long way up. When we reached the top we spotted loads of tiny footprints. The enormous friendly troll, whose name was John said ‘I smell sheep, and I recognise these footprints’.

The footprints led us to a castle where we found not only the sheep but a giant lady and she was crying. John the Troll asked her what was wrong. She told us she was lonely and took the sheep to make her happy. We told her that the sheep belong to little Bo Peep. The giant whose name was Daphne let us take the sheep back to little Bo Peep. She gave Jack a golden egg so he and his mother would no longer be poor and John the Troll and Daphne got married and lived happily ever after.

by Reception pupils from The Russell, Lowther and St. Edmund’s primary schools

Once upon a time there was a little girl who lived in a village by the sea. Her name was Daisy. One day she decided to go for a walk along the beach.  She walked along the stones at the bottom of the grassy bank to get to the snowy, white, sanded beach.  She decided to dig. She dug and dug and dug until she hit a treasure chest with gold and jewels inside it!

SUDDENLY…

….. as Daisy was holding the sparkling jewels in her hands, she saw some mean and scary pirates running towards her on the beach. The pirates were waving their sharp cutlasses  and they were shouting

“AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRHHHHHH !”

Daisy ran and ran and the pirates were so fast at running that they captured Daisy.

Daisy screamed “ HELP!   HELP!  HELP!  You are naughty, bad pirates!”

But nobody heard her calling.  The mean and bad pirates got her and then they took her to their pirate ship and tied her up!

A boat was sailing nearby and a girl captain heard her shouting.

“Don’t worry I’m coming to save you”.

The Captain said to her friends “There’s a little girl on a pirate ship and she needs rescuing. Shall we go out and rescue here and bring her back to shore?”

“We’ll wait until the pirates are asleep and swim over to the pirate ship and then we’ll climb the ladder and be very quiet so that the pirates don’t hear us.

When we’re on the pirate boat we have to tip-toe and whisper and please creep.   If you see a pirate you must hide. Don’t forget your torch.  Don’t shine your torch into the pirates’ window, you might wake them up.”

That night they swam over to the pirate ship…

….and climbed up the anchor rope, whispering all the way. When they were on the ship, they rolled out the anchor. It went down into the sea with a big SPLASH! The pirates were in a deep sleep, snoring in their hammocks, but their parrot woke up squawking loudly, “People attacking the ship! People attacking the ship!”

The girl captain and her sailors turned off their torches and hid on the deck. The pirates stumbled onto the deck, the girl captain shouted, “Attack!”

The sailors all jumped out and shone their torches in the pirates’ faces. The pirates were blinded and ran around madly and fell over the side into the water. Poor Daisy saw all this as she was still tied up and the girl captain untied her. Daisy was worried about the pirates as there was a shark in the water.

“We must save the pirates,” she said.

They put some food on the anchor for the shark. The shark swam to the food and the pirates clambered up the anchor rope back onto the boat. The pirates were so happy to be saved and were very sorry for taking Daisy’s treasure and tying her up.

They wanted to say thank you – “Let’s have a party!” they said.

 by Reception pupils

from  Sheen Mount, Lowther and Stanley primary schools