Celebrating our students’ writing!

 

We love to start our classes with writing. Below is an excerpt from a student in Year 9, Chloe Holloway. In her writer’s notebook, Chloe responded to the image below. We hope you enjoy her writing as much as we do.

This was her favourite place… I sat down on a slippery rock nearby me, inhaling the warm summer air and staring at the gorgeous waterfall that flowed ahead of me. I had visions of when we were children, the way she’d always push me into the water and the stories she would tell about the place. The sun was slowly going down and the noises of crickets could be heard in the distance and below. She told me about how she had this feeling that dinosaurs used to come here and when she was swimming around near the bottom of the fountain, she found fossils. I pictured her gliding through the shallow parts of the water and coming up to tell me she found something. If only my good friend had been here to see how the place looked now, and the wild beauty of it. I stood up and chose to take a better look around.  My breathing slowed as the imagery of palm trees seeped into my view when I spun around in awe. I looked up to the sky, that had darkened without me knowing. The specks of silver stars shone through the darkening sky and the crickets became louder and louder. Cool summer air started to pierce my tanned skin. As I hugged myself from the chill, I heard the calming water fall unconsciously into the rest… night fell and the air became cooler and cooler.

Chloe Holloway, 9F