Save Yourself! Musbury pupils find ways to survive the bizarre

Working with pupils from Musbury Primary School is always fun, and this time around it turned out to be extra exciting! We were expecting our Bank Manager to come with us, but sadly they weren’t able to make it. The class were disappointed that they weren’t able to come and visit them, of course, but when they discovered that the Manager was stuck in a serious predicament, the children from Class 2 rose to the occasion and offered to help. Then we set about writing a clear set of instructions to free our Manager and get him out of a very sticky situation!

Having done that, the pupils were on a roll, and so we got them to write more instructions to help people survive even more dangerous or downright ridiculous situations. Supported by our team, the class wrote careful, considered instructions for how to survive everything from a Zombie Apocalypse to an overly scratchy kitten. From how to survive falling down a waterfall, to how to win at darts, this truly is the ultimate survival guide.

Thanks so much to the staff and pupils at Musbury Primary, it’s such a cool school. Thanks also to our illustrator for this one, the rather brilliant, Yi Li, who provided the visuals. Check out their website here, and their instagram here to find out more about Yi’s work.

As ever, we couldn’t have done any of this without our team of Marvellous Mentors, so a final thanks to Lizzie, Denise, Liz and Jon for giving up their time to support these young writers.