First Day At School: By Lavinia Urban
First day at school
Lavinia Urban
It was the first day back
at school and Erin skipped happily out of her home. She couldn’t
wait to get to school and see all her friends and teachers. As she
got to the school gates, she quickly spotted her friend Jamieleigh.
“JAMIELEIGH!”
She shouted loudly, as she ran into the playground to see her friend
“ERIN!”
Jamieleigh replied and ran towards Erin to give her a big hug.
Suddenly there was a loud
whoosh, followed by a cackle, and then all of a sudden the school
vanished.
“Oh
no!” chorused the children.
“The
evil witch has made our school disappear.” Erin’s friend Kenzi
squealed.
“What
are we going to do now?” Jamieleigh asked.
“There’s
only one thing we can do” Erin replied, putting her hands on her
hips angrily. All the children looked from Erin to where their school
use to be “we have to go and make her put it back.”
The
evil witch lived in a huge house, on top of a big hill. No matter if
it was sunny, there was always a dark cloud above the house. Everyone
knew how much the witch hates schools, but no one ever knew why. She
didn’t have any friends and hardly ever came out of her house,
unless it was to cause trouble. No one knew how long she had lived
there or where she came from.
“So
who is coming with me to get our school back?” Erin asked and
everyone said they would go.
They
all set off to climb the big hill to get to the evil witches house.
As they climbed the hill, the children noticed that all the plants
were dead and there were no animals. The further they climbed, the
colder it got.
“It’s
so cold.” Juliet exclaimed, as she stopped to pull a cardigan out
of her school bag.
Once
they’d reached the top of the hill, they all stopped and looked at
each other nervously.
“I
think we should knock on the door first.” Tammy said nervously,
hiding behind Kieran.
“I’ll
do it!” Ben announced bravely, and before anyone could stop him he
marched boldly up the steps at the front of the house and banged
loudly on the front door. The sound echoed loudly, making some of the
children jump.
“HELLO?”
Ben shouted loudly when no one came to answer the door “hello?”
Without thinking he reached forward and tried the handle “It’s
locked.” He turned and told the rest of the children, who were all
standing nervously waiting.
“We
have to find a way to get in there.” Erin announced.
“Why
don’t we check the windows?” Chyna suggested.
“Yeah
maybe there will be one open that someone can climb through and open
the door.” Rebecca added.
“What
a brilliant idea!” Erin said - a smile now on her face.
With
that everyone went and started trying all the windows, but all were
locked, until.....
“I’ve
found one!” Samantha shouted. All the children ran to where
Samantha was “It only opens a little bit.”
“Who
is small enough to fit through?” Scott wondered
“There’s
me” Marcel quietly pointed out “and Chloe and...” before he
could finish Adam started to jump up and down.
“And
me........ I’ll do it! I’ll do it!”
Before
anyone could reply Adam quickly ran over to the window and pushed it
open a bit more and started to climb in, and before you could say
PIFF PAFF PUFF, he was gone, and within a few seconds you could hear
the locks opening on the front door. All the children stepped back,
worried in case it was the evil witch. To their relief it was Adam
with a triumphant smile on his face
“Easy
peasy.” he laughed
“Now
what?” Jodie asked in a shaky voice. She sounded very scared. She
looked around at her other class friends seeing who would reassure
her that everything would be ok.
“I
think we should go in and look for the evil witch.” Lewis stated
matter-of-factly “I’ll go first.” He started to walk inside
then stopped. He looked back and saw everyone still standing there
“You coming?” With that he turned back and continued in. Everyone
else looked at each other then started to follow.
The
house was dark and cold and had a very unusual smell that no one had
smelt before. Lewis stopped at the end of the hallway then looked
back “Shhhhhhh. Listen.” Everyone stopped and listened very
carefully then they heard the faintest of sounds.
“What’s
that?” Maryam asked.
“It
sounds like someone crying” Erin said then pointed to the door on
the right “And it sounds like it’s coming from in there.” All
the children moved towards the door.
“I
don’t think I want to go in there.” Nicole squeaked. Ben put an
arm around her to reassure her everything would be ok.
Taking
a deep breath, Erin reached out her hand and turned the handle and
opened the door. There seemed to be a startled rustle and a squeak of
a chair as it moved back on the cold kitchen floor tiles
“WHAT
ARE YOU DOING IN MY HOUSE?” the evil witch roared, making some of
the children jump and squeal.
“We
want our school back!” Maryam demanded. Then the evil witch sighed
and sat back down.
“Why?”
she asked with a puzzled expression as she looked into the faces of
all the children. “School is a horrible place.”
“No
it’s not.” Jamieleigh fiercely shook her head “I love school.”
“Me
too.” all the children started to say one by one.
“No,
no, no.” the witch bellowed. “It’s full of nasty people who
like to bully other children.” She said with sad eyes. “I did you
all a favour.”
“But
we love school, and we don’t fight.” Erin told her.
“We
are all friends.” Kenzi quietly pointed out, looking around at all
her friends.
“Yeah.”
Everyone replied in unison. The witch was confused by this, which
made Erin step forward and place a hand on top of the witches.
“Were
you bullied?” Erin asked sympathetically.
The
witch had never ever experienced such kindness before and started
crying. With the tears, came the story of her time in school, when
she was a little girl. Other children had teased her and hit her. She
would frequently run home from school crying. No one wanted to be her
friend and she used to sit alone at lunchtimes. Because of this her
schoolwork suffered, and she left school without learning anything at
all. When she was old enough she left home and moved into this big
house and vowed she would never let any other child suffer the way
she had.
By
the time she had finished her story, she looked up to see the sad
faces of all the children. Some were even crying. Before she knew it,
they all came over and gave her a big group hug.
“That
was horrible!” Erin exclaimed. “Poor you.”
“But
we are not like that.” Juliet told her.
“We’ll
be your friends.” Kenzi said.
“And
if you give us back our school you can come and see for yourself that
we are all nice.” Nicole added hopefully.
The
witch looked at all the hopeful faces of the children. She was
thinking long and hard about this.
“What’s
your name?” Chloe suddenly asked, which seemed to catch the witch
off guard as she had never been asked that question before.
“Sarah.”
The witch stuttered. Then one by one each child started to tell the
witch their names.
“Ok,
I will give you back your school.” All the children started to clap
their hands and squeal with excitement. “On one condition.” The
children stopped and all looked at Sarah. “You have to promise to
all be nice to each other and never bully anyone.”
“We
promise.” All the children all cried out. They didn’t even have
to think about it, as they all knew that bullying was very bad.
From
that day on, they all continued to be kind to each other. They also
saw a lot of Sarah. She even came to their school and started to
learn that school really was fun, and how wonderful it was to have
friends.
Something
else changed too. There was no longer a dark cloud over Sarah’s
house. There were lots and lots of green, green grass, and lots and
lots of pretty flowers. Her home was just beautiful and so was Sarah.
She was happy and she was no longer known as the evil witch, but a
wonderful kind lady.
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