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would take over again and spread her
irreversible green vines, creepers and
ivy to invade the big cities and stop the
needless pollution and nothing would stop
her as nobody saw the point in going back
to the edge of the cliff upon which we
now precariously stand.

I have a dream where in the foreseeable
future, people will reflect on this time as
the inevitable point of no return and have
no regrets about what they did to save
the Earth.

Charlie Webster (S3)
Are dreams

real?
Chloe and Emilie Irwin (P2) contemplate one of life’s big questions
I have a sustainable and everyone will grow their As part of weekly Thinking Thursdays,
own food, cycle or walk instead of drive.
dream… That people will care for the environment the Learning Enhancement Department
posed the question: Are dreams real?
around them instead of carelessly
S3 were asked to write about their own destroying the homes of animals as well A dream is a wish your heart makes
dreams for the future as part of their as tribes. when you’re fast asleep.
study of John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice I dream of a simpler life. I have a dream Liliane Tan (P7)
and Men which involved discussion of that I will live on a farm with a cosy Dreams aren’t real because they
the American Dream and the specific cottage next to the sea on an island happen in your sleep and they are just a
dream George and Lennie share. Charlie that nobody could access. I would vision in your mind.
Webster’s dream follows. grow my own food such as carrots and Benito McCathie (P6)
I have a dream that when I leave school strawberries. I will have animals to care Dreams are only real in your head when
to go to university, I will study a subject for and look after like sheep and chickens, you are sleeping, but I think that your
that interests me and I will enjoy every cows and rabbits. I have a dream that I dreams, goals or what you are trying
second of it. I will study something that would sit by my house on the beach and to achieve can definitely happen and
can prepare me for the challenge life will feel the waves lap at my feet as the tide become real because you can achieve
inevitably throw at me. reached further up the shore. I would look anything you like with the right amount
out to the horizon and have peace, as I of determination!
I have a dream that when I leave saw an endless stretch of water with the Darcey McLaughlin (P7)
university to start work, I will work in a job setting sun reflecting on it. Only when
that I love and won’t ever bore me. I will the sun had completely escaped over the Dreams are not real. They happen when
be there to help any of my colleagues and horizon would I sit in front of the fire in you are asleep and they are what is
happening in your brain, and not real
friends to my full extent. my cottage and read a book, write a book life, though they often are based on
I have a dream that when I am older, I will or just sit there staring at the magnificent your thoughts and ambitions, as well
fight for people’s rights and encourage the wonder that we have in the form of fire as people and places you know. For
world to be at peace with itself. A world – my thoughts empty as I feel the heat instance, when I lost my maths jotter
without discrimination, a world of equality. reach where sit on an armchair that could ages ago, I had dreams that I had found
A world where nobody is ever forced into swallow me. it again! I then found the maths book in
what was the abominable slave trade ever I have a dream that when I die I will be at my piano stool – in real life!
again or anything like it. peace with not only myself but with the Annie Young (P7)
I have a dream that the environment will world around me. No, but sometimes they could be a
thrive and recover after what we put it I have a dream that everyone would do wish.
through. That the global community will the same and the Earth would thank us Reef Alkhuder (P1)
realise and understand it is time to take for it – that the trees, the animals, the air, I don’t think dreams are real because
action against the fossil fuels that will would thank us for it. Everyone would be your brain makes them up. Dreams are
doubtlessly lead us to the point of no at peace with each other and there would made of visions and emotions that you
return. have experienced that day. But your
an end to ridiculous wars that have no brain adds a bit more detail.
I have a dream that my actions will count. purpose but to kill and destroy. India-Rose Morrison (P4)
I have a dream that the world will be more I have a dream that the Mother Earth

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