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Creative

September for

P7 pupils

Creative P7s spent part of the month
working on their World War II topic,
which involved drawing propaganda
posters, writing letters from evacuees
and imagining the emotional scenes
of evacuation at train stations. There Lara Perry (P7)
was also an opportunity to write ‘In my
opinion’ poems and other short stories. A In My Opinion
selection is reproduced here. Aimee Thompson (P7)
Right now, I’d like to be walking my
dog in Dalkeith Country Park.
If I won a million pounds I would give
a homeless person a makeover.
I still haven’t tidied my room.
The one place I’d like to visit would be
Australia.
The funniest thing I’ve ever seen was
when somebody started to dance on
their seat in an aeroplane.
Two things that gives me pleasure are
sleeping and playing outside.
I feel happiest when I’m around the
Lydia Richmond (P7) Kirsten Donnelly (P7) Sophia Allan (P7)
people I love.
Parents should understand children’s
The spider spaghetti. As the spider and the wasp rights.
aren’t large, it didn’t look so scary, but I don’t like homework.
versus the wasp putting yourself in the wasp’s shoes, In the next five years I want to be
a giant, eight-legged predator with
When I was doing my homework, fangs would be rather terrifying. taller than James.
something caught my eye. The spider For the spider, the wasp was a If I was an animal I would be a dog.
had made its home right across the good-sized meal as most of the The thing that worries me most is
window and it had been there for a carcasses on the web were small that I won’t get a good job.
few days now. The web was vibrating I wish teachers didn’t give out
compared to it. A few hours later, a homework.
and I went to take a look. A wasp had
fly was captured on the spider’s trap. The country would be a better place
caught itself in the web and the spider Being nimble though, unlike the wasp, if there was peace.
was advancing.
this lucky fly escaped with its life. People should try eating bugs.
Struggling, the wasp was trying to However, the spider was still gnawing I hardly ever eat pineapple.
escape the wretched trap but it was
on the carcass of the poor wasp as if it The most amazing experience I had
too late. The spider had pierced its
were a piece of corn. in the holiday was when I was France
fangs into the wasp’s neck. Accepting and we had our very own pool.
its fate, death took the wasp. The Some people go to Africa to see My most precious possession is my
spider, who was only slightly larger amazing animals, such as lions which dog, Frank, a Dogue de Bordeaux.
than the wasp, started wrapping its hunt buffalo and wildebeest. They When I grow up I hope there will be
don’t know what amazing battles of
prey in web and took it to the middle peace on earth.
survival go on here at home.
of its home. Biting down on the Friends are more important than
wasp, the spider started sucking out RIP wasp. playing a PS4 or Xbox.
the wasp’s entrails as if they were Milly Scannell (P7) Jacob Pauley (P7)

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