To celebrate World Book Day, Plymouth College Preparatory School held a whole school creative writing day earlier this week.
Based on 'Once Upon an Ordinary School Day' by Colin McNaughton, classes from Reception to Year 6 worked on the same theme to produce individual pieces of creative work. The basis of the story was a boy whose day starts quite ordinary but as things happen to him it becomes quite extraordinary by the end.
The Prep School's day started quite ordinary with teachers dressed in their usual clothes. As the day went on, their outfits got more and more unusual, as they added hair pieces, colourful jewellery, even progressing to full fancy dress outfits in some cases! Extraordinary items also appeared in the classrooms like a breakfast tray, birdsong music and a surfboard.
The children in Reception wore clothes they wouldn't normally wear to school - some came in fancy dress while others came in their pyjamas. They also made crowns. The older children learnt how to structure a story and wrote their own extraordinary stories. They also drew illustrations and pictures of what they thought the ordinary boy would look like.
The children came together at the end of the day to share their stories and put their work on display.
