Mateo and Nardus are showing off their oral language skills!

The ESOL classroom is a magic place ... everybody knows that!

How to introduce yourself to a dragon - Year 3s and 4s can show you!

“Who are you?” said the little dragon.”I am little boy and my name is Hiccup!” replied Hiccup.The cuddly,little dragon asked “can you understand me?” Hiccup replied “yes I can.” The little cute dragon said,”rrrrrrrrrr .”

By Shalvi

“Hello human ! Do you need a ride?” said the dragon. “I don't know if I want one” said Hiccup, “probably!“

“Ok “ said Hiccup. He held the dragon’s ears and off they went .“Thanks dragon” said Hiccup.

By Shahmir

Schalk introduces a new character - meet Steve, the epic dragon!

Hiccup looked at the dragon. It was a tiny dragon. It looked nice and it was green and if you look at it you can see the moon.

Hiccup was very brave and asked the dragon, "What is you name? You look epic, Mr Dragon."

The dragon answered, "My name is Steve and my last name is ... - Wait, I have 100 names."

The little Viking replied, "Oh, that is so cool, but if you have 100 names, can you teleport?"

I just love these stories by my year 5/ 6 students - enjoy!

The Lighthouse Keeper

The lighthouse keeper was a serious, hard working man. He didn't enjoy the idle conversations and felt uncomfortable in the company of the cheerful, boisterous villagers. The loud roars of laughter that came out of the village inn and drifted all the way to his old gray lighthouse that stood next to the sharp jagged rocks that waves would crash onto them.

“I hate these people!”  He said displeased.

He shut his window and tried to concentrate on forgetting them.  But as he was about to try and write something his window sprang open.

He was about to close it as he heard a loud band that startled him. He jumped up as fast as he could to see what was broken “oh no…” he thought as he saw the broken light of the lighthouse.

Next he heard a “TOO TOO!” he glanced out to see a ship coming toward the sharp jagged rocks! His heart beated faster, his hands were shaking then he started to panic.

The lighthouse keeper grabbed the light, but then he tripped over his bag “!CRASH!” The light fell and broke into a thousand pieces.

“what am I supposed to do now?!”  he cried.

“And all of this is going to happen because of me!”

He looked out of the window  and thought all about the people's lives.

He ran downstairs opened the door and what he saw saved his life. he felt relieved. what he saw through the door were all the people that cheered and annoyed him.  They came into the lighthouse and lightened it up with their lamps.

 

As the ship saw the lamps it immediately turned away from the land.

(I also really want to use a thesaurus and fix a bit more words) kind regards noa to miss goodall)

Boom!  “Huh, what is that sound and why has the light stopped working?’’ said the lighthouse keeper.  “I better check it out. It is dangerous if a boat comes.”

 So he jogged up the stairs and then saw that he had to do something quick because he just heard a big horn of the ship, and it was even worse, that the ship was coming for the rocks.

He grabbed his toolbox and then he brought it up. He opened the lid and then grabbed the light and tried to put it on the ground. But he failed because he was shivering. His heart was beating fast therefore he was confused what to do first.  So tripped over and then smashed the light into little smithereens.

 There was no time to lose because the ship was getting closer. But suddenly when he went outside he saw hundreds of people holding lanterns. They where there to help protect the boat from crashing. So people spread themselves around the lighthouse and the boat was saved.

“Thank you all for helping me” said the lighthouse keeper. The lighthouse keeper was very thankful.

By Rumi Khan

Boom! ”What was that sound” He ran up the stairs and he saw the light was out. So he thought, “Why did the light go out.” He looked to the left and saw a ship coming towards the jagged rocks and he started panicking. He took the light out, just at that moment he stumbled back and fell over his toolbox,to his dismay he broke the light.

He looked sadly at the villagers and went down to light all the candles. He went down the steep steps and opened the door. He saw all the villagers coming to help him.

Finally the boat turned. Now all of those lives were saved on board of the boat. The lighthouse keeper was really thankful.

By Jaydon Benadie

It was a dark night, you couldn't see an inch far. But the old grey light house made of big stone bricks lit up the night.

Suddenly the light went out and the people stopped cheering.Then he tried to fix the light but he dropped it and it broke.

Fortunately the people helped with lanterns and lit up the land. He was relieved.

”I’m so glad they came to help!”They are really nice people. “

By Migael De Wet

Noa's text was also published on The Treasure Chest - it's that good!

It was a beautiful summer’s day, I was sitting in the back of my Auntie’s car on my way to a charming villa in Israel.

Next I excitedly got out of the car and launched to see where our villa was and what kind of house we had.

The first thing we did was to plunge into the cold water of the pool. It didn’t take very long and we were freezing in the water. We were as cold as in Antarctica so we sprang out of the pool and got changed.

Then an idea popped into my head, “Wouldn’t it be nice to go to the hot tub?” I questioned dad. “Of course that would be a great idea”, my dad responded.

At the end of the day my dad and me were sitting in the blistering hot tube.

That was the best holiday of my life in Israel because I met all my family and could finally feel the heat of love cuddling around me.

By Noa Kroupkin

Carlo writes about picking up his grandma.

Me and my family went to the airport to pick up grandma. It was Christmas time.

We parked the car and then we went inside the airport. Then we saw my grandma.

By Carlo

Josh spent an amazing time with his family on holiday

While I was in South Africa my family and I spent a few days in a hotel.

When we got to the hotel, I gazed into this arcade. There were shooting games, which I really liked. I was excited and I showed my mom and dad and sisters. They said that I could go tomorrow cause it was really late.

So we went to our room and we slept. The next morning my mom gave me the house key to our room.  She also handed me some money to play some video games and her phone because my family had to go shopping.

And when I got to the arcade I gazed around. It was really exciting to play the games that they had installed. Then after all my money was spent, I heard a phone call and it was my dad. He said to come and open the door and I ran to the hotel room. I looked in my pocket and the electronic key was gone! It felt like my heart stopped! I was really scared and mom and dad were angry with me.

Then we went to the people who gave us the key and they said that we forgot the other key and we were lucky I was the luckiest cause all our stuff was in our room,

Then we ate our breakfast. And then we got ready to go we packed some towels and sun screen and we went to the water park. But when we got there we forget our chairs and blankets, but we went in anyway. Then we saw some chairs and it was for anyone to relax on them so we were lucky and there was an umbrella for the sun.

When I sat down and I looked up, there it was - the biggest water park. I showed my mom and dad and they said I should go on it, but I was too scared. I went up it and I was shivering. I wondered if I would fall down and down and die. I went down the path walk and then I saw a water playground park and I went in there and I had so much fun I had so much water on me.

Then we had to go to the airport so we went to our room and packed everything up and then we went to or car. When we packed everything in then we saw the car was so full of our stuff and when we got in we were so squished like being squished by a machine that squeezes cars then we went to the airport then all the fun was done