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Could Not Be Caught By The Trap by Bako Suraya Akbar Brahan, Munir Primary School

Could Not Be Caught By The Trap by Bako Suraya Akbar Brahan, Munir Primary School

One day, a wandering leopard was caught by a trap. He tried freeing himself from the trap, the more the leopard fought the tighter the trap became. So he was unable to free himself. Early the next day, the man came to check on his trap. When the leopard saw him, he called out; “come nearer my friend,” what do you want asked the man? “I have been in this trap for the whole night” said the leopard. “Would you please let me out of this trap,” said the leopard with tears filling his eyes. “I will let you out of the trap, will you eat me if I do that?” asked the man. “I will not eat you, I will let you go and I will go to my usual hunting” answered the hungry leopard. “I will make sure that we are friends forever,” the leopard added.

The moment the man let the leopard free, the leopard changed his mind and said; “now I will eat you up, for I know it is you who set the trap for me.” Just as the leopard was about to jump at the man’s neck, a rabbit called from a far; “hey! Wait for a minute.” He came nearer to listen at the story. “What is the matter?” asked the rabbit. “Look here”, explained the man. “I found this friend of mine in the trap; he promised that he would not eat me if I let him out.” “Well! I cannot understand what happened, can you go back to the place you were in before,” said the rabbit. Foolishly, the leopard went back into the trap. He was unable to escape from the trap, “there you are”, said the rabbit. “Now you can kill the leopard without much difficulty.” The man took out his bow and arrow and shot the leopard.
The leopard died, so the man was safe and very happy. He took the rabbit home, since then the rabbit has been living with man.
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I Want To Be An Environmentalist by Bako Suraya Akbar Brahan, Munir Primary School

I Want To Be An Environmentalist by Bako Suraya Akbar Brahan, Munir Primary School

My name is Bako Suraya Akbar Brahan, a 14 year old primary seven pupil at Munir Primary School. I like to keep the environment clean. I want to be an environmentalist when I grow up, I want to be an environmentalist. My way of keeping the environment clean around me is by sweeping the compound at home and advises my fellow pupils to do the same during this holiday to help their parent with sweeping both in the house and the compound. I ask my friends to avoid littering the compound but always of rubbish in established pits around the home.

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A Carpenter’s Pride in Uganda by Minallah Shamimu, Munir Primary School

A Carpenter’s Pride in Uganda by Minallah Shamimu, Munir Primary School

A carpenter is someone who makes things out of wood. Carpenters usually make furniture such as tables, chairs, benches and desks. For one to be a good carpenter one should be trained in carpentry skills and have the materials and tools required for one’s job. Some of the materials a carpenter uses are wood, timber, nails, glue sandpaper and varnish. The tools include a saw, a plane, a drill and a hammer. All these materials and tools required are important for a carpenter’s work. It is out of wood which often comes in the form of planks of timber that the carpenter creates the things he makes.
Wood is therefore the carpenter’s raw material. He also needs tools to shape these raw materials into objects. The objects should not only be useful but also pleasant to the eye and touch. With the saw, the carpenter will cut the wood, with the plane he will make it fairly smooth, with the drill make holes in it and with the hammer he will drive nails into it. For most types of objects, that the carpenter makes, nails and glues ensure that the carpenter would not be able to join the different pieces of sawn are very important-in fact they are joined.
Otherwise the carpenter’s customers might end up with things which are weak, wobbly and short lived. The carpenter also has to make things he creates look nice. He therefore polishes them with sandpaper and applies varnish to them. The sandpaper takes care of rough surfaces, whereas the varnish to them. The sandpaper takes care of the rough surfaces, whereas the varnish makes the surfaces look shiny and beautiful. A carpenter’s job is only done when the varnished surface has dried then he can sit beside what he has made and look at it with pride.

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The Sports Day by Hafizu Zubair Khamis, Munir Primary School

The Sports Day by Hafizu Zubair Khamis, Munir Primary School

Nkondo Primary School organized a sports day. All pupils were divided into houses and each house had a house leader elected by the pupils of that house. The houses were Victoria, Kyoga and Albert. Victoria had its leader Catherine. All teachers liked her because she was hardworking and well behaved. Catherine was at first doing well, as she was practicing with her house members on daily, time came when she was doing the opposite. She became proud of herself in front of other pupils. Whenever she was given some items like glucose and sugarcane to be given out during practice, Catherine kept them to go share with her friends in the dormitory. Her behaviour did not please the members of the house. They decided to report the matter to the house master.
One morning, the teachers and pupils of Victoria house gathered to prepare for the general practice for all the houses. During the meeting, members talked about Catherine’s conduct. Some said that they had given up but the teachers advised Catherine to apologize to the members. In the afternoon, the houses assembled for the practice. This saw Victoria’s participants becoming last in each race. Catherine lost fame and became quiet. The rest of the houses beat Victoria in each and every event. After the general practice, Catherine called her members and apologized. She called upon them to regain the house’s spirit. This made her buy glucose using some of her pocket money.
The long awaited day came and the participants assembled in the field in the first event of the long race, the first and third positions were taken by Victoria house. When the results of the field events were brought at the recording table, Victoria house was leading in most of them and this made Catherine and her house-mates very happy. Finally results were announced, guess what? Victorians were the champions of the year in Nkondo Primary School and they won themselves a bull.
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A Narrow Escape

A Narrow Escape

long time ago, when I was a pupil of king’s way primary school, my father could take us to school for fear of the kidnappers since my school was very far away from our home and it was a nice school that had no boarding facility. There were very many kidnappers so parents did not want their children to foot.
One fateful day my father had an appointment far away that he had to wake up earlier than usual and asked our mother to take us to school, after breakfast, my mother called a bike man, when he arrived she asked my brother to board and walk to school but when I tried to insist she asked me to look for my biological mother to take me to school. I didn’t know she was my step mother until that day so I decided to walk because when I do not go to school I may lose a lot in class and she was going to give me a lot of work at home to do.

After walking a long distance some two men came on the road one closing my mouth while the other carrying me. They took me far away in the bush in a certain unfinished building. They asked my names I told them, my father’s contact I told them I don’t know and one man asked me for any contact I know I replied I don’t know any, they were furious and started frightening me saying we kill her, I replied I don’t know and am not afraid to die, or you people thought that when I was walking I didn’t expect this to have happened! They one who was threatening me said this girl is crazy. Two hours later they were a sleep but had left me entangled I could not run fortunately I had a wrist bangle on so I decided to break so as to cut the ropes to untie myself. When I untied myself and started running one woke up and started pursuing me up to the road. Fortunately one of my father’s friends saw me running and the one pursuing me, he decided to follow us on realising that someone is following in a car the kidnapper took off and my father’s friend took me home.