Speedy Sports Day

Speedy Sports Day!

Authors : P3B, P1B & P2B
Illustrators : P3B

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Chapter 1

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It was deep dark in the zoo and there was a little, shy snail. In his cage, he was exercising with a treadmill to get faster. So he can beat Cheetah, Leopard and Crocodile at the zoos sports day. Suddenly the Cheetah roared “Look Snail, there is something shiny over there”. He went over to it, it was a shiny watch. He threw it up into the air and it landed on his head. He looked at the watch, it was ticking. He touched it with his tail. The snail was going back to his cage when all of a sudden he began to feel frightened. When he looked back at his tail he saw that it was moving side to side very fast and there were sparks flying, hitting some of the animals he passed. They had to run to a pond to cool themselves down. The watch made him super fast!

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Chapter 2

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The next morning Snail woke up feeling very confused. Did he dream it or did he now have magic powers to make him go faster? It was Sports Day, all the animals line up for the race. "I don't know why you are taking part, you are not going to win" said Crocodile. "You are far too slow". The snail looked at his shell he could see the watch and it was still ticking "That's not true" said Snail. "You just wait and see". The Zoo Keeper starts the race. Cheetah is in the lead followed closely by Crocodile. Snail is coming last, he shakes his shell and suddenly the watch begins to glow. Snail slides along very fast passing Crocodile and catching Cheetah. The finish line is in sight who is going to win? Snail shakes his shell again and zooms passed cheetah. Snail has won he feels amazing and so happy. But then he tries to stop and he can't he keeps sliding along. "Oh no, someone help me, I can't stop!"

Chapter 3

The snail went round in circles, all the way around the zoo. As he slid along at supersonic speed, he knocked over multiple trash cans with rubbish and animal poo in it. It went EVERYWHERE! Cheetah and Crocodile slipped on the animal poo and fell to the ground, face first. It was so smelly that they passed out. The zoo keeper didn't know what to do to help the animals - Cheetah and Crocodile were lying in poo and snail was still zooming round and round and round.

"I'm going to be sick....I'm so dizzy....and it STINKS!" screamed snail. As snail passed the animals for the 100th time, he threw up all over Cheetah, Crocodile and the Zoo Keeper's shoes. His eyes were so blurry that he couldn't see the giant boulder straight ahead of him.

Snail crash-bang-boomed into the boulder with such a mighty force that the watch went flying out of his shell, high into the sky and over the zoo fence. Snail watched as the watch smashed on the ground and the glow faded. The magic watch was broken forever.

Snail had to figure out how to get back to his cage but he was so tired from going round in circles. Snail asked Cheetah, who had just woken up and splashed around in the pond to clean himself, if he would give Snail a ‘cheetah back’ back to his cage.

Snails slime made him super slippery and he kept slipping off the Cheetah's back. "Ahhhh, this is not working. We need to find another way to get me home" said Snail. Cheetah ran to the zoo's lost property box and found a super fast, electric skateboard for snail to ride down hill to his cage. Snail was very happy to be home safe and super excited to see his bed again.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

This book was written collaboratively by P1 - P3 B classes for Book Week 2022. Each class contributed to the next part of the story. The classes were provided with a setting, a character and an object that needed to be included in the story but all the creativity came from the pupils. Well done St John Ogilvie!

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