Happy World Teachers’ Day! Creative Writing Prompts for the First Week of Term

Monday 5 October is World Teachers’ Day! In the lead-up to this and the first day of Term 4, we’d like to send a huge thanks to all the teachers who bring their passion and dedication to school each day. We thought we’d celebrate by sharing some creative writing ideas for the first week back after the school holidays.

​Below are some interesting ways to take the classic question, “What did you do on the holidays?” and turn it into a piece of creative writing!

Describe a memory of your holidays using every sense except sight! 
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I want to smell the cookies you baked, feel the warmth of the afternoon sun, or hear the sound of your family dinner!

​Don't tell me about your holidays; let me experience them for myself!

- Tamara

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One-upping!

​Write a scene about two characters competing to see who had the most fun during the school holidays.
​Each time they speak, the characters should add a little bit more detail that ‘one-ups’ the other. Maybe one says they played Fortnite for 15 hours a day and the other says they played it for 16 hours, and went on a helicopter ride! 

- Ben

"Holiday on Mars"

​Your friend from Mars sends you a postcard explaining the many activities they did in the holidays. Write a postcard back to your friend explaining to them what you did in your holidays back on Earth.
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​P.S. Don’t forget that your friend from Mars has never seen a blue sky or eaten ice cream or touched grass before. You might need to explain those things to your friend.

​- Feiya

Ordinary to Extraordinary!

Take the most boring day of your holidays and change one thing that instantly makes it extraordinary!
It might be that you see giraffes dancing outside your window, or you have a surprise visitor who has never heard of Zoom or Vegemite.

​This is a wonderful opportunity to remind students that story ideas can be found all around them.

- Amy

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What Do You Wish You Did?

What's the one thing you weren’t allowed to do on your holiday? Write it down and make it extravagant.
Like, I really wanted to go deep dive swimming but because of Covid I had to stay put. So I’d write a story where I go deep dive swimming, and create a plot from there.

- Atorina