National Digital Learning Week 2018
National Collaborative Story
Nursery -P3
National Collaborative Story
Nursery -P3
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Schools who took part in the Nursery - P3 National Collaborative Story
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Chapter 1 – Grandtully Primary, Perth and KinrossLoading...
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Loch Ness had become too dangerous.As well as tourists and photographers, there was now a hunter who wanted to capture the whole Nessie family and lock them in a dungeon. So the youngest monster was on the run, with the codename Braw, hoping the young people of Scotland would help the family find somewhere new and safe to live.
One day, Braw was being chased along a foggy lane, when suddenly something grabbed Braw’s tail…
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Chapter 1 – Grandtully Primary, Perth and Kinross
He span around and saw Myiah still holding on to the end of his tail. "Wow are you a dinosaur?" She said, then from behind her lots of voices started shouting questions. "What's your name?" "Are you ok?" "Where are your family?" "Where do you live?" "Are you injured?" "How long is your tail?" " How old are you – which primary are you in?"
"Whoah slow down one at a time" said Braw. "Who are you? And why are you holding my tail?" "We are P1-3 from Grandtully Primary School, we are on a school trip to the Perth Museum to find out all about bones, we love finding out about bones and animals and dinosaurs and things from the past and all that kind of stuff" said Jacob. "We are holding your tail because we were wondering what you were, we are very curious" said Anna excitedly. "Why aren't you with your family?" Asked Ellie.
Braw told the children that his family had been chased away from their home and he was trying to find somewhere new for them to live and he needed help. "We would love to help" shouted Julia "We are the Wee school with BIG ideas! And we are really good at working together" said Sofia.
"Whoah slow down one at a time" said Braw. "Who are you? And why are you holding my tail?" "We are P1-3 from Grandtully Primary School, we are on a school trip to the Perth Museum to find out all about bones, we love finding out about bones and animals and dinosaurs and things from the past and all that kind of stuff" said Jacob. "We are holding your tail because we were wondering what you were, we are very curious" said Anna excitedly. "Why aren't you with your family?" Asked Ellie.
Braw told the children that his family had been chased away from their home and he was trying to find somewhere new for them to live and he needed help. "We would love to help" shouted Julia "We are the Wee school with BIG ideas! And we are really good at working together" said Sofia.
The children dressed Braw up in a Grandtully uniform and huddled around him to disguise him a bit. They all went to a shop to buy a map of Scotland to start their plan. Next they jumped on the school bus back to Grandtully School so they could figure out how to keep Braw and his family safe.
Back at school the children found out a bit more about Braw and his family and what they needed. They needed to be near water, somewhere with lots of food, (Braw's favourite food was salmon) and somewhere quiet where the hunters would not think of looking. Jillie Ann started to research Lochs. Most of the children had been to Loch Tay in Kenmore and thought that might be a good place to live.
Back at school the children found out a bit more about Braw and his family and what they needed. They needed to be near water, somewhere with lots of food, (Braw's favourite food was salmon) and somewhere quiet where the hunters would not think of looking. Jillie Ann started to research Lochs. Most of the children had been to Loch Tay in Kenmore and thought that might be a good place to live.
Loch Tay is not as deep as Loch Ness it's only about 150m deep, so the hunters might think it was too shallow for the family to live in. There are a lot of fish in the Loch so that would be good and ducks that could chase the hunters away.
There is also a Crannog that could hide the family. And the Nessie family could swim down the River Tay to visit Grandtully whenever they wanted! The children organised for Braw to visit Loch Tay and stay for a night to see if he liked it. The children gave Braw a special waterproof iPad to stay in touch and went back to school they decided to keep on researching other Lochs incase Loch Tay wasn't right.
Chapter 2 - Harrysmuir Primary, West Lothian
Meanwhile in Livingston, a man, known as Mr. Hunter was visiting Harrysmuir Primary School. Mr. Hunter had a long, black, bushy beard. He had an unkind face with cold, blue eyes that peered over the top of his glasses. Mr. Hunter was a zoo keeper, and he was coming to visit Primary 2 to tell them all about his job.
Mr. Hunter wandered into the Primary 2 classroom and was greeted by smiling children who were keen to learn all about his job at the zoo. They had recently been learning about African and Arctic animals as well as animal classification, so had lots of questions to ask him. "How often do you feed the animals?", asked Freya. "What animals do you have in the zoo?", Taylor and Marcus asked him. Sarah asked if he had a difficult job, whilst Antoni asked if animals were sad in the zoo because they weren't free. As the children kept asking Mr. Hunter questions, he began to look nervous and then frustrated. He couldn't answer any of the questions! Suddenly, Mr. Hunter began to shout at the children.
"Why can't you tell us about your job? You work there!", said Abbie.
Just as Mr. Hunter bent down to pick up his bag, Aaron shouted out "Why do you have a net in your bag?". Caitlan rushed over to have a look, she pulled out a diary and a map of Inverness and the Scottish Highlands. In the diary was a detailed plan on how to capture the whole Nessie family!
Mr. Hunter wandered into the Primary 2 classroom and was greeted by smiling children who were keen to learn all about his job at the zoo. They had recently been learning about African and Arctic animals as well as animal classification, so had lots of questions to ask him. "How often do you feed the animals?", asked Freya. "What animals do you have in the zoo?", Taylor and Marcus asked him. Sarah asked if he had a difficult job, whilst Antoni asked if animals were sad in the zoo because they weren't free. As the children kept asking Mr. Hunter questions, he began to look nervous and then frustrated. He couldn't answer any of the questions! Suddenly, Mr. Hunter began to shout at the children.
"Why can't you tell us about your job? You work there!", said Abbie.
Just as Mr. Hunter bent down to pick up his bag, Aaron shouted out "Why do you have a net in your bag?". Caitlan rushed over to have a look, she pulled out a diary and a map of Inverness and the Scottish Highlands. In the diary was a detailed plan on how to capture the whole Nessie family!
"You're not a zoo keeper!", everyone shouted at him.
Caitlan quickly picked up the diary and threw it to Leon, who tore out the pages and threw them out the window. The wind picked up the pieces and carried them off in different directions.
"NOOOOOOO!", yelled Mr. Hunter, "how am I meant know how to capture Nessie now?"
Caitlan quickly picked up the diary and threw it to Leon, who tore out the pages and threw them out the window. The wind picked up the pieces and carried them off in different directions.
"NOOOOOOO!", yelled Mr. Hunter, "how am I meant know how to capture Nessie now?"
Just then Dylan received a message on the class iPad from Grandtully Primary, asking pupils across Scotland to help keep Nessie and his family safe. The message explained how P1-3 at Grandtully had helped to disguise 'Braw' and had sent him to Loch Tay for a few days whilst they thought of other ways to help. They asked if anyone had any good ideas. Dylan showed this to the children at his table, and knew that they had to come up with a plan to keep Mr. Hunter far away from Nessie as possible.