Student Stories: Samples from our Creative Writing Classes

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In preparation for the 11+ exams, our students completed a writing task from a Sevenoaks School past paper. Children were asked to continue an extract from a story called Formica. One student\’s work is shown below. This was a homework task and therefore completed entirely independently.

 

 

The ashtray was bottle green, with significant dents in its sides. It was partly grey with all of the cigarette ash and ends covering the bottom like a blanket over a sleeping baby. His mother was biting her fingernails and discreetly praying for his health to be okay.

 

The room had a sickening stench of rotten and reeking apples, which climbed up everyone’s nostrils and abseiled into the depths of their lungs, and coughed at the unpleasant odour of it. There were many nurses around, and the patients each had their own private rooms. 

 

A nurse came in and called Neil for a checkup. She had wisps of white hair flowing out of her scruffy bun. She was fat and her forehead covered in beads of impatience. And with that, Neil was whisked away.

 

His mother was sweating and her fingernails were being shortened while wisps of smoke still rose from the ashtray.

 

 

The student that authored the work above passed the CSSE and Wilson\’s exams (amongst others), both of which tested creative writing.

 

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