8 - 10 Years
First Place Renathur Noel
WHAT IS THE BEST THING TO DO IF SOMEONE CALLS YOU A NAME YOU
DON’T LIKE? GIVE EXAMPLES OF WHAT YOU DID.
Some people are just plain mean as this girl in my story. Her name is ‘Herk’. She is a bully and since I am the smallest child in my class, she thinks that she can treat or call me all kinds of names as ‘Shortie’ or ‘Polly’.
Whenever she calls me Polly, I will shout and say ‘my name is Pauline’. But she continued to tease me and I tried my best to avoid her as much as possible. Things went ok for a while. Then one day our teacher made an announcement that we are going to have a new student and to my surprise there in the doorway stood Holly but everyone calls her Herk. We all settled down to do our work but I could not concentrate because my mind was on Herk who sat right behind me.
I gave up going on the netball court because she was there and would try to boss us around by taking the ball away from friends and I. My parents also noticed a change in my behaviour and began to question me as to what was the matter. My best friend Sandra would pay me a visit and I will refuse to go down to the court with her to play.
The next week, the teacher gave a Maths test and I had studied for it because I had more time on my hands since I gave up going down on the court to play. When the result came back I was happy to see A+ on my paper, but Herk glanced over and saw my score. She was very upset especially when the teacher announced that who did not do so well in the test had to stay in during recess and after school to do extra studies.
Herk did not like this at all because she loved the court just as much as I do. This was my time to show off what I can do on the court. Everyone was surprised and tried to find out why I did not come and practice anymore. Then one day the teacher announced a competition between the two grade V’s. I was happy when I remembered Herk was from the other Grade V and will now be playing us. I was then surprise when I heard our teacher say ‘Herk will be playing for her own class’.
On the court, Herk tried to make fun of me but I was prepared for her because I had talked to my dad and he had given me some advice about setting my boundaries dealing with hatred and raising my self-esteem. He also told me to ignore her even if she said the meanest thing to me then he told me to look at a monkey in a cage he cannot get out and no one could get in. Just so people can set their boundaries and use it as their cage.
I was taught by my parents that my body is my own and that no one had the right to touch it. I have the right to stop anything that makes me feel uncomfortable and that no one should control my life or make me feel sad or bad about myself. My dad had given me some good sound advice that I had never thought about.
I should be nice to Herk even though she is mean to me. At school, I went over to the Math teacher and asked her if I could stary for extra lessons. She was surprised but said yes. That afternoon I stayed back in school and to the teacher’s surprise, I told her I wanted to help someone. I was afraid but I slide beside Herk and took a seat. Her looked up and said ‘I thought you were an A student?’. I then told her I wanted to help her and to my surprise she accepted my help and then I understood why she could not pass the test because one one helps her at home.
The next day at school we were on the court with Herk as captain and the first person she picked was me, Polly and then on we became very good friends. Thus it pays to be kind and to do good to those who may try to hurt us along the way.
Second Place Chelsea Pierre
IF I HAD NO RADIO, TELEVISION, VIDEO FOR A WEEK, HOW WOULD YOU SPEND YOUR TIME?
Can you imagine if you had no radio or TV/Video games for a week? How would you feel to just sit around and do nothing? I guess you will feel bored, lonely and exhausted, if such thing ever happened to me, I am sure I will not feel bored, lonely and exhausted. Thinking careless that it will never happen to me I was so glad.
It all began on a Sunday afternoon when I was watching my favourite cartoon called Winx Club. While enjoying the show and anticipating what will happen next. Suddenly a blinding light the television just went off. I was shocked. I thought that I had pressed a button on the remote control but I did not, not been aware that the current was gone. I sat there just waiting and hoping that the current will come back soon. It seem that I was wrong. Then my mother said that it was time for bed so I went off to bed.
I then woke up the next morning with the anticipation of playing a video game thinking that the current had returned. As I rushed to the living room ready to play the game I realized that the current hasn’t returned. I was so upset then the phone rang. My mom answered the phone and was having a conversation with someone. When she hung up the phone, she told me that the current won’t be back until the following week. I was feeling as if I was going to be bored for my whole life because we were not going to get current for a week.
Suddenly, I had a brilliant idea. I decided to invite my friends to have a sleep over for a week. I started calling my friends. Each friend I called their parents agreed because they also did not have current as well. I was so excited. When they arrived the exact same afternoon I invited them to my room skipping in excitement I had a lot of plans. ‘Lets have a party” then everybody shouted ‘yeah’. Then we started to make preparations like dressing up, setting the tables and making a list with who to invite. It was a lot of fun. When we finished, we notice that the night was falling so we all ate dinner and got ready for bed.
Tuesday arrived, we got up brushed our teeth, washed our faces and went for breakfast. After breakfast we changed our clothes then decided to play checker s to see who will win. It was really fun and we all got a chance to win. Next we went and slid on the slides and swung on the swings. We also played a game called SOS. Before we knew it, it was time for lunch. We had chicken and pie. It was delicious. Then we played a racing game and we read a lot of interesting books. While we were reading a book the night was approaching nearer and nearer and we all were very exhausted so we read a bed time story to go to sleep.
The next morning was normal as any other morning. Be we like it just the way it was. We just wanted to have a great time that day and also for the rest of the week. So we did our grooming as usual and went for breakfast. After that we started to play games such as domino, skipping, riding bikes and going to the beach and stuff like that. We tried to do as much as we can because it was only a few days before weekend. During our activities my Mom informed us that it was lunch time. The food was delicious. After lunch we read some story books to occupy the rest of the afternoon. As the night fell, we were happy as we went to bed because we had a great time that day.
Thursday came; we were so excited because of all the wonderful things we had planned for the day. We played hop scotch, moral and simon says. It was really exciting. Then lunch time arrived and we were very hungry so we ate our food. Then we sat down to digest our food and while doing that we read story books. We were finished and we went outside to continue to play our games. We played until the night was falling. So we got tucked in and went to sleep.
The bright sun shined brightly in all its glory the next morning. It was beautiful day to relax and have fun. So we went on the beach and take a swim. It was a lot of fun and we all met new friends also. We met two girls called Lorna and her sister Sherlorna. When we arrived back home, we rinsed ourselves and got dressed. When we finished, we read a book. We played all sorts of games after reading the book. As the sun set we went and make a little pretend in the bedroom that we were camping outside in the moonlight. It was a lot of fun.
Saturday morning has arrived. The day when my friends had to go back home. We had some spare time and decided to play some games. We played some of our favourite games like moral, hop scotch, skipping ing and swinging. We even had time to go to the beach. When it was time for my friends to go I was really sad. But I was happy that we’ll be getting current the next day. I was so excited.
Third Place Gaynel Barry
