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children, I was scared. They were So, as I lay immobile in bed, crying up. I wish I could tell myself that being
wonderful in hospital, ever supportive at the last Harry Potter film and grown isn’t all its shaped up to be. I’d
and loving as they had been my whole eating criminal amounts of pesto like to tell myself to keep spinning,
life. When I came home, my mum pasta, I thought: who are we? Are and take that rocket ship to a distant
cooked me my favourite meals and we our bodies? Our clothes? Are we planet, a planet where people don’t
just organs and systems, or are we
helped me move around the house. care whether you can have children
My dad held my hand as I cried, memories and emotions? I know I am or not, or whether there’s a big scar
a woman, biologically, and a feminist,
telling me everything would be okay,
but to my younger self I was always across your stomach.
I was still me, I would always be me. just me.
I thought about telling him that I Wonderfully and unapologetically And while we’re at it with the advice,
wanted to go back to spinning, but I myself. I think I lost that somewhere I think I would tell her not to let mum
knew I was too big now, too fragile to along the way, that feeling of being throw away the green dress when the
carry. He is getting old, and I do not unashamed. Cyst or no cyst, I forgot seams finally burst. One day soon, in a
know where my green dress has gone. what it felt like to spin, carefree, lonely hospital bed, high on morphine
Disappeared down the rabbit hole, happy, protected from society’s and anti-sickness injections, I would
as these treasured items tend to do. expectations of me.
have wanted to see that dress one last
Someone else is wearing it now I hope, And about my dress. When I remember
or perhaps it’s in a skip somewhere, it now, I remember still exactly what time.
waiting to be burned. it felt like when I couldn’t wait to grow Sofia Macchi Watts (S5)

P5 earthquake acrostic poems English students bring

Of Mice and Men
Emergency below the earth’s core. Exceptionally fast,
Are very hard, scary and rough. Accidents can happen, reading to life
Rough ground and fallen houses happen Ridiculously destructive,
They are city destroyers. Students in S3-1J visually imagined the first
because
Hundreds of years the few pages of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and
Tectonic plates make the ground shake. pressure builds up. Men by sketching the protagonists, George
Hard core of the earth and makes Quakes can kill. and Lennie, and drawing the setting.
disasters. Utter destruction.
Quakes are very dangerous and After shocks are dangerous.
Underground shakes make the earth Kits can help.
Earthquakes are bad.
quake
Noah Moncur (P5)
Knocking buildings fall.
Eruptions start by tectonic plates. Earthquakes Always
Sudden eruptions – look out! Rumble The House
down Quickly.
Faith Butcher (P5)
Understand that it Actually
Earthquakes can cause lots and lots of Kills most of the Eliminated
Straight away.
damage.
Always have first aid. Hannah Percival (P5)
Ruins everything.
Earthquakes
Takes one to two seconds, and Are
Houses get destroyed Rough and
Quite satisfying. Tough
Upsetting for everyone, Harshly they
Quickly
And are very dangerous.
Unexpected
Kills thousands and thousands of people,
Are
but Knocking down
Eventually end. Everything in their way
Elizabeth Beattie (P5) Sebastiano Crolla (P5)

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