Everyone at Talbot wishes you — and your family — a happy, peaceful Christmas. We hope you get to enjoy lots of good times with your friends and family. Remember, too, to welcome Jesus — into this world, and into your life: find time to be still and to listen to what he is saying to you. Try to do this often. He loves you so so much. Ask yourself what does he want from you. 

Now, for you this Christmas Talbot is organising a “Talbot’s Got Writers!” competition. Each child in school on the 21st of December was given a page to write on. It’s easy. All you have to do is write a short story.

Maybe have four paragraphs/parts…

(1) The Opening (where, when, who, maybe an opening event)

(2) Introduce A Problem

(3) Maybe Make the Problem Bigger or Longer

(4) Have a Solution (How the Story Ends)(It can be a happy or a sad ending)

That’s it! You can write lots of different stories and enter many times! You can write on any piece of paper you have.

(What can you write about? Well, just think of someone, then think of a problem for that someone… for example: Santa, and maybe someone stole the reindeer!… or for example: A butcher, and there aren’t enough turkeys to sell to everyone… or for example: a Snowman, and the snow is beginning to melt… You think up your own idea and then go and have fun writing your story.)

There’ll be prizes for the best stories. Just bring in your story/stories when you come back to school in January. And maybe, if you ask politely, your teacher will give everyone who enters a small reward 🙂