When pupils at Thomastown East Primary School were asked to write about a special place where they felt safe, some chose their grandmother’s house.
The more adventurous types went for the circus, zoo or mountains, while others settled for their own bedrooms.
Their stories were hung in the school’s hallways from November 19-22 to mark the beginning of its first Writers Festival.
Principal Jeremy Blaney tried to improve the children’s oral skills by focusing on their creative writing.
“We’ve been teaching the children how to write more interestingly to give their writing a voice,” Mr Blaney said.
Linguistic tools such as alliteration, onomatopoeia, the power of three and similes were some of the strategies the pupils have been taught.
“We have a lot of refugees and some of our children haven’t been to the beach or to the Botanical Gardens, so we exposed them to these places online,” Mr Blaney said.
“All the children have blown us away with amazing, powerful writing.”
