Overcoming Challenges

This term we are focusing on physical, mental and emotional wellbeing. Today you are going to write a short story that demonstrates a character (yourself, or a made up character) overcoming a physical, mental or emotional challenge.

Prompt: There is a huge inter-school sports tournament coming up, and you (or your character) have been training for months to compete. You know this is going to be a tough competition, and you (or your character) are nervous about it.

Planning:
Introduce your character; what sort of personality do they have? What sport are they competing in? What preparation have they done?

Plan your writing here:
My character’s name is Ivy and she is the only girl in her rugby team she is so nervous because it is a tournament and the whole school is watching.At the end of the tournament she has to give a speech about her experience during the tournament. As she plays she feels nervous but coming towards the end of the tournament she gains confident after her friend gives her a quote she will never forget.

In your writing you are also tasked with using a variety of sentence structures. That means your writing should contain at least 5 examples of compound sentences, and at least 3 examples of complex sentences.

Begin your writing here:
One Monday morning Ivy wakes up to realise its her school tournament and she woke up late. She got ready and her mom dropped her off,After she ran out she ran to the hall and lucky they weren’t gone they were just about to leave. Coach tyson gave Ivy her shirt she ran and got changed quick and came back out and they were all waiting for me in the bus I ran out, got in the bus and before you knew it we were already there.Once we got to the place we saw 5 teams and according to Coach tyson we are playing all of them.We set up our tent and got our gear ready we had a 5 min warm up then the coach blew the whistle.

When we started the other team kicked it to us and I caught it I ran and I stepped nearly half of the team there was one buff girl at the back and I was lucky enough to just get the try on the line.My team ran to me and we were all cheering because I had just got a try right in the start of the game.We kicked the ball to them and my friend ben tackled him and we got the ball ben passed to me and everyone was cheering I felt nervous for some reason I ran and got tackled by the buff girl who was standing near the tryline when I got my first try.

The game finished and before you knew it were on our third game we won that game because me and ben practically carried our team…….. TO BE CONTINUED