Category Archives: School

The Planet Problem

National Young Writers Award

At school we had this competition, the National Young Writers Award, where you had to write a 500 word story about what it might be like in 3017. Here’s my story:

The Planet Problem

Over the hills, there was an enormous banana milkshake house with a Kitkat poking out of it and who lived in it you ask? Well, only a man called Shakana or as his friends called him Nana. Nana was a Gaygun, a species of human, which can live to be nine hundred and ninety nine million years old. Nana was a kind, elderly worker who sold… yes you guessed it: Banana milkshakes with Kitkat’s in! Shakana also invented a suit (that he used often) called the Inveople. The last Inveople had not done anything, this new one worked when it had been filled up with banana milkshakes. First, let me tell you what the Inveople does; the Inveople makes you really strong and Invisible, when wearing it! Shakana also had the latest transport: the Rhubarb, powered by rhubarb crumble. In all, Shakana was a happy man and got lots of customers because, he made the best milkshakes in the world. He had robots, which sold milkshakes in every town, village or city.

After he’d bought the rhubarb, he decided to swap the Earth and Mercury’s positions so; he could see life develop in different years. However, there was one problem: he would wipe out all the organisations on Earth and that would be horrendous!!! Swiftly, he made nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine litres of rhubarb crumble. When he had stored it all in the fuel tank of the rhubarb –it can fit anything in- he let the Earth in. Although afraid, the people on Earth, stupidly, didn’t try to do anything. “THIS IS BAD!!!”Everyone was saying. Everywhere was chaotic. Even though, the world was about to end, lots of people tried to get on with daily life. They did it to get enough money to make rhubarb crumbles to power their rhubarbs and to calm down. Everything was being sold; people were crazy but every one decided to get one thing especially: the Producer. The Producer produces anything in an instant and’s very small and handy.

Well, because everybody was buying a Producer all was bad; people had to make more Producers by using a Producer to make a Producer to give to the people without a Producer. The stalls were nowhere near as chaotic except all Nana’s milkshake stalls. You couldn’t get any in Producer’s because they were too hard to make, so everyone was buying them. Anyway, Shakana was having another problem, he couldn’t move the Earth or Mercury. Thank goodness, the worlds were saved, which was an enormous relief for everyone as they could live on. Shakana was furious so he packed up and decided to go to Mercury with his milkshakes for aliens (aliens love milkshakes.)

Shakana knew that aliens loved milkshakes. He got into his fully loaded (so he thought) rhubarb and it wouldn’t go. He tried again. Nothing. He checked the fuel, empty. His storage of rhubarb crumble? Empty. OH NO…

Hope you like it.

Breathtaking Bonfire Night And My Spooky Halloween

On Halloween I went to the monster mash at my school in a werewolf costume and made a pumpkin.

my pumpkin

me in my werewolf costume

On Bonfire night, we went to cafe Beermoth for a quick drink and tea and then we walked down to a tram station to take a tram to Heaton park. When we got there we wandered around trying to find the place where the bonfire display was, which was brilliant, then we watched some fabulous fireworks.

The bonfire with Guy Fawkes on

Fireworks

It was all amazing. Sadly it was time to go.

It was the best Bonfire night EVER!

Scratch – Boat Race

This is my latest Scratch project, Boat Race, This ay be my favourite and my last of Code Club to find out more about Scratch click here.

Use the mouse or the arrow keys to move if the boat has a black line in use the mouse but if it has a purple line use the keyboard.
There are 4 levels can you battle your way through the boat race.
Get to the yellow desert and go over the white arrows to speed up and avoid the wood which will send you back to the start and the green which will slow you down!

Thanks for playing!

Sorry about the music no music in the files!

Scratch – Paint Box

This is my latest project, Paint Box.

Here is my coding screen for this project:

This is my coding screen.

Here are some keyboard shortcuts you can use to change colour and clear:

g = green
b = blue
r = red
y = yellow
l = black
e = eraser
c = clear

Have a go what can you draw?

Scratch – Chatbot

This is my best project yet, a Chatbot. Talk with it, there’s no more to it!

This is my coding screen:

This is my coding screen.

This is the project.

Scratch – Balloons

This is my third scratch project, you pop the balloons and doughnuts to earn points but if you click the bats you lose points.

This is my coding screen.

Scratch – Rock Band

Rock Band

This my Rock Band I made on scratch.

This is my screen for my Rock Band

To use it click on the singer, the muffins and the cymbal. You can also press the space bar to listen to the drum and the up arrow key to play a different song on the singer.

Be careful not to take your mouse over the animation over and over again.

Scratch – Lost In Space

I have been learning how to code for Code Club. I used a website program called Scratch to make an animation called Lost In Space.

To code I have to drag blocks onto the right hand side and test them by checking the animation on the left side by pressing play.

This is my coding screen.

This is my animation. Press the green flag to start it playing.

I can’t wait to make another, what do you think it will be?

BFG Pantomime With School

On Friday 4th December I went to the Octagon theatre to watch The BFG from the book by Roald Dahl.

Octagon sign

The BFG (standing for Big Friendly Giant) had huge, orange hair as dark as an orange.

The BFG and Sophie

Showing dreams to Sophie

Making a dream to take to the queen

The Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater and the meatdripper all gruesome giants eating little children (little chiddlers) snatching them from there beds like peas in a poddle in the witching hour.

Showing Sophie the other giants

My favourite part of the whole pantomime was when they were in Buckingham palace contacting the BFG from the lawn with a gigoontic (gigantic) iPhone. Here are some pictures of a leaflet I took home.