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I am Noya I look around to see a voluminous field, with luscious green grass surrounding me. Colourful birds fly around me spreading their beautiful wings whilst I breathe in the fresh air. I wake up to see no further than a dark, gloomy hallway with a pair of old shutter windows, it was at that moment that I realised those images were all a dream. I lean over to pick up my glasses and place them on my nose. I push the covers off my clumsy body and step out of my old fractured bed and on to the creaking floorboards. I’m sure this bed has experienced many students sleep in it as they made this boarding school their home like I have. Now I’m back in my normal life, I am trying to escape. A loud siren begins to ring. A siren that usually meant Nazis were coming. I gasped and took a leap just skimming a nail poking out of the timber floor. I continued to rush down the spiral stairs, finding it hard to run in my cotton nightgown, and into the hall where all of the other Jewish kids were gathered. One of them was tall and slim like me, he glared at my freckled face the lowered his head. I glanced down at his knees, which were trembling then back up to his eyes, which were now focused on an old man standing up the front, who was perplexed and nervous. It looked as if he opened his mouth to speak, but nothing came out. The younger looking man stepped forward, “children, we are in a terribly dangerous situation. The most I can tell you right now is that they’re back” I heard half of the kids let out a little cry and the rest tried to hold back their tears. All the fear I had woken up with had only grown stronger and my body filled up with sadness, instant sadness. Some of the students ran out of the hall, trying to find somewhere to hide, teachers followed. I hurried to the window and look out to my war torn town of Warsaw and watched as the Nazis drew closer and closer. Gunshots. Maids screaming. My heart racing. Pounding and pounding. I heard the yelling of the Nazis that were already in the school building. Before I had the chance to turn around, I felt something clench onto my shoulder. It made me panic. I spun around and looked deeply into the dark brown eyes of a Nazi soldier. The Nazis dark suit had a rusted badge pinned to the pocket that read, Soldier Leon. It took me less than two seconds to work out who he was. He was the one who stole my parents and kidnapped their daughter, Noya. I am Noya. Everyone knows me as the nerdy Jewish girl. Glasses, nose always stuck in a book and my lucky pen poked through my hair; just resting on the tip of my ear.
Leon hauled me back towards him and walked away with me glued tightly beside him. My back began to sweat and my gown stuck to me. The hairs on the back of my neck spiked up, as I took a deep breath, ready to pull myself away. I tried to relax all of the muscles inside me, however the tension grew stronger. Suddenly, I jerked and whipped myself away. I sprinted toward the exit, too scared to look behind to see the furious look painted on Lean’s face. I saw Uri and Shira, my two best friends, rush away in a small group with Mrs Yael. I ran after them, hoping they would see me. I eventually caught up, Mrs Yael tugged my arm, relieved to see me and pushed me into a small door alongside Uri and Shira. I watched as Mrs Yael crawled through the door and then led us away to a larger door. The large door had a bite sized padlock hooked to it, Mrs Yael pulled a small chain of keys out of a broad pocket sewed to her robes and twisted a small golden one inside the padlock. The door creaked open and we all went through, one by one. Another boy in the group lifted up a trapdoor and Mrs Yael pointed to it. I ducked down onto my knees and placed one foot on the ladder, then climbed down. All of the others followed. We ended up in a small room with cobwebs in each corner. I look around to see lots of other people sitting on the dusty surface, wrapped in blankets and tears dripping from their cheeks down to their necks. The only light coming from a small crack in the wooden wall. I rubbed the bleeding scratch on my left wrist, unsure how it got there and burst into tears. I was sad. Why did my life have to be this one? I wrapped my arms around Mrs Yael as soon as she shut the trapdoor. I placed my hand on my forehead to try to stop it from throbbing. Whilst I was hugging her I was listening to two of the other teachers having a conversation. “One of the soldiers. They took a child-“ Mrs Yael was squeezing me too tight for me to be able to hear who the soldier took. So I tried to get closer. Mrs Yael whispered to me, “It’s going to be alright. As soon as the Nazis leave, we can get out of here.” Now I had so many thoughts rushing though my head. ‘Will we ever get out of here? How do we know when the Nazis are gone? Will the Nazis ever go?’ Mrs Yael stepped away and wiped a cloth on Shiras cheek to stop the tears. I could tell there were still plenty of other people outside, running from the Nazis, people inside, trying to find the exit and people searching for this room. There are still so many other kids whose lives are in danger. At least I could call this safe, for now Maya Turner Grade 6 Heyfield Primary School
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could not eat through the pork house. So they laughed and laughed and lived happily ever after. Eddie Ronchi Grade 4 St Mary’s Primary School, Sale
The Gingerbread Woman
Max, Heyfield Primary School
The Three Little Wolves Once upon a time there lived three little wolves. They had to build their own house, one for each wolf. They were really excited to build their very own house. The first little wolf built his house of cheese. The second little wolf built his house of meatloaf. The third little wolf built his house of pork chops and pork crackling. One day, a pig came along and he was sooo hungry he could not bear it. He was walking around looking for food, when he saw a beautifully built cheese house. There was even smoke coming from the chimney. “Oh great” he thought. This looks like great lunch! I should tell my brothers” So he went back to his house, which happened to be made of bricks, and told his brothers all about the beautiful cheese house he saw. The three little piggy brothers marched over to the cheese house and started munching away. But the first little wolf heard the pigs. He heard rumbling and snorting and cracking and breaking noises. He thought it was an earthquake! So he ran quickly away to his brother’s house made of meatloaf. The two little wolfy brothers were hiding in the meatloaf house. When the piggy brothers came over and started munching on their house too! The second little wolf thought it was a burglar and he got really scared. So the two little wolves ran over to the third brother’s house made of pork. The three little wolves were hiding in the pork house, peering out the greasy windows. They were really scared at first, but then they noticed they were pigs! PORK IS PIGS!!! So they were safe and sound because the piggies
Once upon a time, there lived a young girl called Lizzy. She lived with her mum and little brother. They lived in small village next to a forest. One day it was Lizzy’s birthday and she w going to have a party. Lizzy’s mum invited some of her friends over for lunch and birthday dinner. Lizzy chose to have a gingerbread woman instead of a cake, so her mum went into the kitchen to happily make the gingerbread woman. Lizzy’s mum got out some butter, sugar, golden syrup, 1 egg, some plain flour, ginger, bicarbonate soda, icing sugar, food colouring and smarties, She made the dough and the icing and then cut out the shape. Lizzy’s mum used the smarties as eyes and icing for clothes. Then she put her in the oven. Later, she came back to the kitchen to get the gingerbread woman out of the oven. When she opened the oven door, the gingerbread woman stood up and said “Run, run as fast as you can. You can’t catch me, I’m the gingerbread woman” and then she jumped out of the window. “Oh my Lord! What just happened?” thought mum, then quickly chased after the gingerbread woman. They ran past the garden where Lizzy and her friends were playing and then Lizzy asked “What happened?” Her mum replied “JUST CHASE THAT GINGERBREAD WOMAN!!!”, “Ok” said Lizzy and they all started chasing as well. They ran past the lake and the fields and when they got to the river there was no way across. The mum said “We just want to eat you for dessert” “No Way!” said the gingerbread woman. Behind the gingerbread woman, Lizzy’s little brother was hiding. He wanted the gingerbread woman and in a flash, he gobbled her up- whole! It happened so fast it was like the gingerbread woman just disappeared into thin air. The gingerbread woman never to be seen again and the party went on and everyone lied happily ever after. Mitchell Scholtes Grade 4 St Mary’s Primary School, Sale.
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Times-Spectator, Tuesday, 7 December, 2021
