Student Stories: Samples from our Creative Writing Classes

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.