This is a competition to see who can choose the best 50 words to write a short short story about a picture posted on the blog. I will post one picture each week for the next 10 weeks to give you lots of topics to choose. The story must be inspired by the picture.
You are able to have less than 50 words( but no more) The story must be original and exciting to read. We will have a 1st prize for the winner in Year 5/6, Year 7/8 and Years 1-4. We will also have another prize for students who their teachers have decided have made the biggest improvement from the writing they do in their classrooms.
You cannot get adult help in constructing the story.
Don't forget to put your name, class and age at the bottom of the writing. They won't be counted in the 50 words!
He dipped his oars one last time as his boat dragged to a standstill. Climbing up...finding small shaky spaces for toe and hand. Don't look down! Swinging precariously up the rope ladder and into a corrugated room. Pulling the switch to draw the raiders away. Where were they?
ReplyDeleteMr Dorman
War,the cold bad war.I'm stuck in this lighthouse.While I'm here let me tell you what happened.I'm running to what used to be the water,now I'm climbing to the top.Boom!The ladders broken.I'm at the door getting in, I'm now looking at...
ReplyDeleteMatthew Winch
The man in the tower climbed to the end of the broken ladder and jumped off into the boat and sailed into the deep ocean to go fishing. After he caught a few fish, he sailed back home and tied his boat to the side of where his house was.
ReplyDeleteBy Bryn - Weka Class
I peered through a window, I could see radiant light shinning through some clouds almost like it was just for me. Then something caught my eyes, something happened to the water. What had happened? How? Why? I thought about it ...... I was trapped!!!
ReplyDeleteMegan Fisk
There was a man in World War 2. He escaped from his trench, he walked about 5km. Suddenly he was stunned to see an abandoned light house. He climbed up a half broken ladder and from the top he saw a rusty boat.The army had caught him.
ReplyDeleteBy Jay Marsh
Ivan clambered the ruins.
ReplyDeleteHe sat, chest heaving, exhausted.
‘’You can’t run away forever” he thought staring out at the horizon.
Had they found the island?
He glanced down and sighed with relief. Only the boat he had used lay there silent and still on the calm grey murky waters.
Emily Smith (Piwakawaka)
Lucy always wanted to travel the world since she was 10.
ReplyDeleteHer Dad had told her about the tower with the castle that had a hole through it.
The boat lay in the shallow water below the tower.
Lucy was excited because Dad said she could come to the tower.
Lucy Smith (Piwakawaka)
I take one more stroke, and step back to look at the painting I had in my dream. A man in a huge tower, half a ladder, a small boat on its side in a small pond. No way to get down, no way to get food or water. Dreams....
ReplyDeleteBy Aria Healey (Kereru)
In the middle of the war torn town there is a creepy old tower with the spooky man who still tells his dark day's tales.
ReplyDeleteThe city's a living nightmare. People get punished just for whistling! Not many people live here because everythings gone, everythings gone here, there's nothing.
Shannay - Weka
Well done Shannay very proud poppy great job
DeleteThat's our clever granddaughter ... well done my lovely. Nan and Granddad
DeleteWow Shannay, well done it is awesome. Gran
Delete"I'm so bored, I wish that storm didn't break the ladder." "I might just look out the window to see the beautiful meadow." BOOM! "Typical, another day with rain." "The puddle is getting bigger and my boat is drifting away." "I wish that storm didn't come and destroy the village...."
ReplyDeleteBy Bethan Bolton - Kereru
The adventurer pulls his rowboat through the ruins of Atlanta,he comes across the tower of the elder mermaids. He sees it the face that had haunted him his whole life. Once he was successfully in the tower , he's trapped and now his face is looking out the window.
ReplyDeleteSimonne - Kereru
The wind blew on me as I looked at the broken kingdom.The French destroyed every thing in search for a giant skeleton,but they found nothing.Little did they know they destroyed it in there search. I escaped my death with the French.what was that million year Skelton
ReplyDeleteAntony-kereru
I stare out the small glum window locking my innocent eyes on the extreme mess looking for obvious clues finding a huge hole that sits in a wall of rock and then i see the lifeless boat floating wearily in a small puddle. But the disaster is still a mystery.
ReplyDeleteBy Zara
he gazed out the dusty shattered old glass that stood held by tape he sighed the musty smell of old age and cobwebs drifted up his nose.he sat down on the old rickety chair and fell off he lay there scrambled on the floor rembering,rembering what?
ReplyDeleteimogen-kereru year5
A man was living in a banana skin tower. It was pink, blue, red and even gold. It was shaped like a light house.It started to turn brown. It was rotting and gross. Then it started to decay. No more banana, no more lighthouse! Sorry ships in the night!
ReplyDeleteI looked out the window clear nest nothing to be sine.I looked to the right there was a big hole in the bloke.I moved to the door and then i fell with a bang at the end.I called for help but no one was sean.
ReplyDeleteBY SAPPHIRE YR 4 KAKAPO
The Crime.
ReplyDeleteThe water's gone, I've cut the rope ladder. No one can get me now, but how will i survive? No food,no water. All i can do is stay on the look out; but no one will forget the crime I've commited. I hope one day I can forgive myself...
"Oh no", I cried. The raiders were coming. I jumped down the ladder but it snapped. I hurried toward the boat but I was to tired. Then I realized pirates must've been here because there was a humongous hole in the stone structure. "Help me".
ReplyDeleteBy Jacob Yr 4 Kakapo class
DeleteOh No!said the lighthouse keeper.As the ladder snapped,the boat broke and the light is off.He looked out the window and scream HELP!!! but no one heard him but himself.
ReplyDeleteBy: Julian Yr 4 Kakapo class
The old man looks out of the lighthouse window at the ruins of the once busy town, the tide went out one day and forgot to come back in, the ruins stand like the bones of a prehistoric dinosaur waiting to be rediscovered and recreated into a thriving town again.
ReplyDeleteBen Rodgers
Yr 4
Kakapo class
The war separated me from my family. I have been on this tower for 5 years. All I have is a old boat and this tower this amazing tower. My legs are sore from standing and looking outside the window. Is anyone out there.
ReplyDeleteMaximus-kereru year6
The canoe was his only escape.The beast destroyed everything in its path.He made it to the tower just in time.He was hoping the horrid creature couldn't get to him.Prepared for battle he looked down but wouldn't see it.He felt safe but just for a while.
ReplyDeleteMarcus-weka year6
My parents have trapped me at the tip of a rickety old tower thinking it would protect me from the bloodthirsty beasts that have destroyed our minuscule village. They were wrong. The horrid beasts have arrived and I need to get out of this tower at lightning speed.
ReplyDeleteBy Catherine
He gazed out the dusty shattered glass that was held by tape.He sighed the musty smell of old age and cobwebs drifted up his nose.He sat down unable to stand the old rickety chair snapped he lay scrambled on the floor remembering,remembering what?
ReplyDeleteImogen Richards Kereru class year 5
As I rowed the boat I came closer and closer to the craggy old Light house,the fear began to set in. I could feel eyes boring into my back, who was it and why where they watching me? Then I realised I wasn`t alone. Not at all...
ReplyDeleteBy Susannah
Good I am safe, there was a big tsunami. I can see a tiny bit of light, like a star in the night. There's a big pool of water, I feel like it's going to suck me up, I am trapped. Am i going to live or die?
ReplyDeleteI got closer and closer, rowing on my boat. Then I realised I was lost. I anchored my boat and swam to a unknown island. There I climbed brick by brick up a open lighthouse. Halfway up I found a broken rope ladder. I climbed it.I saw glowing eyes...
ReplyDeleteBy Josephine
It's about to rain. There has been an earthquake. I doubt I'm going to live. There's quicksand surrounding me so
ReplyDeleteI have to wait till tomorrow when the tide comes in. Then I can row myself back to the village. I've been here for four painful days. I'm Hungry Help!!
The storm was finally over. The French had finally left. The whole city was destroyed, only a couple of buildings survied. Was this it? Was this the end for me? i have to get out of this tower, and fast. HELP!
ReplyDeleteCeanna, Kakapo class Yr 4
The peasant was hiding as the dragon destroyed the rest of there village he had one bow and arrow so he took his chance and shot it at the dragon and it hit the dragon yay the dragon was dead but the ladder broke so he starved to death. bye!
ReplyDeleteA young man just for his first time in the military during world war two. He saw that his partner had been shot
ReplyDeletedown by a German fighter and he got so scared that he ran to a rowboat and rowed it to a light house. He climbed to the top of the lighthouse, then cut the rope ladder and had no way down. He eventually starved to death in shame.
I turn the lighthouse light on... SNAP, the ladder. I was stuck. I just watch the sunset and the piece of artwork; Stonehenge. My boat drifting in the water like it was in a puddle. I await my fate the end may come soon.
ReplyDeleteDylan Didi Kereru Class Y5
Lighthouse remnants of when giants ruled, lay crumpled, crumbling, rubble, reflecting the world they ruined- polluting skies, sickening seas. One functioning torch remained. A brave soul put the giants torch to use, chancing his luck at starting fresh. The small lighthouse took shape. Hope raised her head from the shadows.
ReplyDeleteBy Mrs Dorman
I'm in a faraway land, locked in an old lighthouse tower. They have left me here! How am I going to get down the tower? Maybe the tide will rise. If I could only find something to break open the lock.
ReplyDeleteA man about 100 years old lived in a big missile which was straight as a pencil. All he saw was light all day and all night. There was a giant tsunami and it snapped his stairs on half. All he had was his boat. The old man looked through his window looking at the storm coming towards him. HElP HElP!!! No one hears him.
ReplyDeletewhat is this a lighthouse why would anyone have a lighthouse in the middle of the land of the lost what is it or who is it is it a murderer.
ReplyDeleteOne stormy morning I woke up in a very strange place and looked outside. Where am I? How did I get here? Oh no!.......by Finn Kakapo class
ReplyDeleteScattering through the ruins of my hometown, Humbledon was atrocious enough, but climbing up the tower was worse. As soon as I doubtfully reached the top I realised I was the only one alive. The ferocious destroyers had moved to the east, breathing fire on everything. Then everything went BLACK.
ReplyDeleteBy Grace
No-one can get up and there is no way to get down.How do I warn anyone that dangers coming when i'm stuck in a tower.My weight snapped the ladder on the way up.Now I can not complete my job.Everyone is relying on me and now everyone will die.
ReplyDeleteKate McCashin
yr 7
Kotuku class
I stare up to the abandoned light house, there is no colour left in its white face. And then his spiteful eyes peer through the window. I turn quikly to stop his gaze, but not in time. He quikly pulls out his rifle and trys to shoot my white face.
ReplyDeleteEva McCauley
kereru class
50 words
It was world war two I was in a tower a werid tower I was looking out the window and saw a boat. I hid but then I realize that nobody was in it. What am I going to do? I need to think the positive I got to think positive.
ReplyDeleteBy Bella Rose Thian
yr 4 Kakapo
age 8
I peered through the window of the lighthouse, I saw a peculiar shadow hovering toward me. “Oh no"! It was bad bottom the witch. I've gotta hide somewhere mysterious - It was too late she caught me.
ReplyDeleteBy Jacob
Yr 4
Kakapo class
Wars... Look at me stuck up this dark tower, what now. All we do in war go kill ourselves is the main thing we do in wars. Reminds me of a book the saying... " we have a victor cause of hope only thing stronger then fear itself". Something like that...
ReplyDeleteAria Healey ( Kereru )
Oh man I have spent one whole night trying to get up this tower. Snap!!! The ladder broke. I am standing here looking out. It looks like there's been a war with cannons and planes. How am I going to get down? How am I going to get home?
ReplyDeleteBy Jordan Inglis
Rowing my boat round. Suddenly I see an old raggedy old tower. I go closer and I see it clearly. Someone is in there. Who was in there? And why were they there? I wanted to investigate.But how do I get up there?
ReplyDeleteBy Theresa
I looked out the foggy window where the school used to be. Ruins that was all that was left, with one tower which I lived in. I brushed my brown hair off my face and turned to a photo of what the town used to look like... Amazing.
ReplyDeleteBy Marina ( Kea class).
I'm race up the ladder, there he is right behind me.Then a moment that probably saved my life. The monster miss places his foot and into my boat he falls and sinks it. I am safe but i am not sure that was the last of them.
ReplyDelete48 words
Ben (kea)
What has happened. My mum is a tree and my dad is a mailbox, I am neither. Am I a lighthouse a treehut or a crane. someone lives in me thhey`ve cut the ladder and arrived in their little brown boat and are stuck.how did this happin maybe because i'm specol
ReplyDeleteTaneeka Lewis
I slumped down onto the ground.
ReplyDeleteEscape was the only thing running through my mind.
Then, as I stood up, I saw the boat
A lonely boat with the words escape written all over it.
But in my hurry I fell down the ladder.
My escape was no more...
emma (kea class)
Why was he here why did he enter this competion. His heart pounds as the first obstacle comes nearer. Rock climbing. Then makes a sudden jump makes it then a long jump to the rope he climbs up the rope.
ReplyDeleteA heart stopping momment as he fell to his death.
By Bridgett Jones (kea class) yr 7
"Woosh" The silence echoes,bouncing throughout this hell hole. I stare through the window past a vast landscape. The boat lies facing the rocks. Alone and left to die I have one chance to survive. I run down the ruined staircase when I hear a voice "Are you alone?"
ReplyDeleteby max
The forbidden land was a stoney village and only one person lived there, the mischievous Queen.
ReplyDeleteHer tower wasn't all that much as a result of the war.
The war was against the pleasant Queen can you guess who won............
By Ajay skilton (kea class) year 7
After all those tiny steps up the teracherous ladder, eventually but victoriously I arrived at the top of my home. As I scampered out of tyhe bitter, howling wind and into my den, I glanced out of my rounded window and noticed the magnificent views.
ReplyDeleteScarlett Burke Yr8 (Kea)
The stone tower which we both called home was
ReplyDeletedrifting further and further away.
A tear broke to my eye as it trickled down my face.
Now it just stood there like a lonely soul.
I could still hear the old creeky floor board, replaying
in my head. 'Creek,creek'.
Sian Gallagher ~ Year 8 ( Kea Class)
In the dark lonely ruins of... well nobody knows what lives a limp old man. Everyday the old man slowly rows out to his abandoned lighthouse to sit the lonely day out staring out his window waiting for something to happen to shake of his unlimited boredom. Time for home.
ReplyDeleteDaniel Fahey.
They know where I am. They know what I've done, so I must go. The rickety old boat is my one chance! Climbing down the rusty bricks made me think why don't I just give myself in, after all I did kill someone. But no I still must disappear.
ReplyDeleteMegan Hay
Yr 8 Kea class
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ReplyDeleteAs I climbed up the ladder, I had that feeling that I was being watched. I looked out of the corner of my eye. There was someone there! I continued up the ladder, although I knew there was no point. They had found me. I was doomed.
ReplyDeleteAdam Currie
Year 8 Kea class
i looked down threw the window, will they ever find me, i could never prove it wasn't me, i could never commit such a crime as that, it would echo threw my life,i will wait until they find me, if they don't i will just slowly drift out of life.
ReplyDeleteJohn Tzinavos
Year 7 Kea Class
It's a cloudy morning when a creaky little boat drifts towards my Stone Tower.
ReplyDeleteI peer out the window to see if anyone is there. No. Not a single soul. Just the boat. I soon realize no one is out there, except me.
I'm alone, just me, myself and I.
By Hannah Stevenson
Yr 7
Kea Class.
HELP!
ReplyDelete'GET ME OUT OF HERE!
If you are reading this please get help. I'm stuck in a tower with little bread and water. The rope ladder was cut off so I can't get out. District:Nomans Land.'
The ink was blod red and written on thick stone.
Alisha Lewis
Weka Class
Year 6
Tower Picture
47 words
In my eyes I see a wonderfull tower. I wan't to climb it but there is no way. The Ladder was chopped off long ago so I must climb it using the rocks to the Ladder. When I get inside all I see is food and a bed.
ReplyDelete50 words
jasmine Barney
Piwaka class
year 2
Phew the cannonball missed me. What. There is no-one. I guess it`s just me. I am at the little window. Hey what is that? Oh, it`s just my boat. Where`s all the water? I wonder how I`ll get out. I know, I should make a parachute and jump out into the little boat.
ReplyDeleteOliver Lewis, Piwakawaka
The hungry snake was trying to climb up the lighthouse. The two men inside were very scared. They could not escape because there was no ladder. They opened the window and screamed as loud as they could,
ReplyDelete'HELP!' But nobody heard them. They could only hear the crashing of the waves against the tower.
ISAAC LEWIS
TUI CLASS
YEAR 2
A frail man lived in a rickety lighthouse he would sit for hours and just stakeout at the vast ruins of what used to be a quiet seaside village. Many chose to flea while those who chose to stay and fight now lay dead in the streets
ReplyDeleteAbby Haines-Bellamy
Kea class
Year 8
Hello! I'm a cranky old man who lives a boring rickety lighthouse..Nah, just kidding. This house is not out of the ordinary...oh come on, mum wants me to wash the dishes!yes, you're probably wondering why my mum is still alive.hmmmm..
ReplyDeleteAs I peer threw the old lighthouse window glaring at the torn up village lightning strikes the old light turning it on. I open my journal and record the last days of my life. Soon I will die from starvation oh why did the war come so quickly?
ReplyDeleteBy Bethan Bolton kereru class yr5