Page 88 - Bellfort Issue 3 2014

Bringing a Legend to Life! In September 9L2 read a descriptive words and The Bellfort folk stories from around After several lessons of phrases. collection of well-known the world and compared preparatory work, pupils these with our own local folk were ready to begin writing tales about Finn McCool and the Giant’s their stories. You can enjoy Causeway. The class was several examples of their inspired by the descriptive language used in the sto- ries and decided to create work in this magazine. their own folk tales. 9L2 pupils began by creat- ing a central character for their stories. Mrs Dempsey provided stimulus material to inspire high quality de- scription. During one les- son pupils used the Per- forming Arts space to work collaboratively in order to develop key descriptive phrases. Pupils then had the oppor- tunity to bring their charac- ters and settings to life by using the Art room and ma- terials. Pupils had further opportunity at this stage to add or refine their bank of 88