Y ours, from Cinderella – Form 1

Form 1 have written letters pretending to be Cinderella and telling her best friend Betsy all about how hard her life is. They thought carefully about how Cinderella would feel and what her life would be like. Pupil’s dressed up as either the sad, hardworking Cinderella or the belle of the ball.

“I have a lot of hard work. Can I go to the ball? No! My stepsisters are nasty and mean because they make me do all the work”.

Jovan

“I have to light the fires and I burn my fingers. They are mean and they give me their leftovers for my dinner. My nasty unkind stepsisters force me to do everything”.

Prisha

“I’m so sorry Betsy that I can’t see you because I am stuck at home. I sleep in the attic with the spiders and the cobwebs”.

Ifrah

Ifrah

“I am heartbroken, I wish I could come to your home. I asked my stepmother can I have a rest and she said no!”

Scarlett

Prisha Scarlett

Rosie

“I sleep on the scruffy floor and it is bumpy and uncomfortable. My secret dream is to go to the ball and see the prince, but I don’t think it will happen”.

Rosie

Matilda

Christina

Katie Emma

“I have to scrub the floor for hours and hours and my hands are dry and cracked. I am exhausted but I don’t have a bed”.

Chiara

“I don’t know what to do! My ugly stepsisters force me to do everything. I have to cook the food and they like nasty food that makes them ugly”.

Yasmin

“I can’t tell you how upset I am and I’m so tired. When my horrible stepsisters go out I am all alone.”

Arabella

“I have to wash all their clothes and it makes my knuckles sore on the washboard. They won’t let me go to the ball and they say I have to work, work, work!”

Eliza

“I sleep in a dusty old attic with spiders. I really don’t want this life, I really want to see you”.

Grace

“I try my best, but I just can’t ever see you again. I have to brush my stepsisters’ yellow teeth, they want them as bright as the sun”.

Matilda

“My stepmother is terrible, I have to mop the floor and it makes my hands hurt. I dream that I will go to the ball and meet the prince”.

Christina

“The ugly stepsisters’ perfume smells like witches’ cats. I have to do their makeup and sew their dresses”.

Katie

“My only friends are the spiders. My secret dream is to go to the ball, but that will never happen in my life time. I am stuck here for ever”.

Emma