--- title: "US English: creating characters for our stories" url: "https://inskip.lancs.sch.uk/blog/2024-02-03-08-57-04-us-english-creating-characters-for-our-stories" school: "Inskip St Peter's C of E (Aided) Primary School" --- # US English: creating characters for our stories ![](https://files.schudio.com/inskip-st-peters-2/images/blog/8B3709EE-8B63-409F-9A06-4194FBDF3793.jpeg) 3 February 2024 [Cheryl Langley](https://inskip.lancs.sch.uk/blog/author/ChLangley) [Upper School (KS2)](https://inskip.lancs.sch.uk/blog/category/upper-school-ks2) Over the last few weeks, Upper School have been immersed into innovating our focus text - ‘How to Live Forever’ by Colin Thompson. As part of the journey, Upper School got creative with their new pots of Play-doh (exciting times!!) to bring to life some of the characters or items from their story plan. This really helped them to visualise ready for writing time! We have been so proud of each of Upper School for throwing themselves into the writing process!!! ### US English: creating characters for our stories [![](https://files.schudio.com/inskip-st-peters-2/imagecache/720x720s/gallery/us-english-creating-characters-for-our-stories/580B9B73-FBEE-42D4-B60B-8FED41A43115.jpeg)](https://files.schudio.com/inskip-st-peters-2/images/gallery/us-english-creating-characters-for-our-stories/580B9B73-FBEE-42D4-B60B-8FED41A43115.jpeg) [![](https://files.schudio.com/inskip-st-peters-2/imagecache/720x720s/gallery/us-english-creating-characters-for-our-stories/A1508DE5-DF5E-46A7-A1FF-CD2B29CC373B.jpeg)](https://files.schudio.com/inskip-st-peters-2/images/gallery/us-english-creating-characters-for-our-stories/A1508DE5-DF5E-46A7-A1FF-CD2B29CC373B.jpeg) 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