Working on Stories
Then it was time for stories. Working in small groups or pairs, children were invited to choose one or two of the observations from their Memory Walk that might have a story to them. Whoosh! Things started happening very very quickly though some children who had brilliant ideas needed to be encouraged to take their own ideas seriously. 

One group of boys had the idea of some ghosts that were trying to make a Moto-X circuit in Laugharne. 

But why?

The story grew. It turned out that three people who were killed in a Moto-X accident had been so passionate about their sport that they decided they must continue with it even now they were dead. They started clearing Laugharne Castle to lay out a circuit there. 

And the boys who made up this unusual story ended by claiming that they were actually the local residents who were the first to hear strange noises coming from Laugharne castle at night!

Only one or two children found it hard to get ideas at all. Perhaps they were just shy about saying them out loud. For instance, near the end of one session, one girl said she didn’t have any ideas for a story and didn’t know what they would be if she did. When I suggested (a bit naughtily!) that she make a story about a Don’t Know person (rather like a No-good Boyo), she answered like this:

“I don’t want my story to be about a Don’t Know person. I want a story about a ghost ship.” 

And when she was asked what happens with the ghost ship, she didn’t hesitate for a second. She came straight out with this wonderful story:
Mary Medlicott
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