Celebrating the Rugby 2025
My team won three trophies last season and has just kicked off this season with a strong win. Time to get painting to celebrate 😃 I call this ‘Rugby Colours 2025’:
The Mushroom
Announcing the Mushroom Playground
We have several enthusiastic coders in our community. Wouldn’t it be good if we could share their work on Mushroom? Well, this feature will be coming soon. It is currently under construction in the all new development area Mushroom Playground: playground.mushroom-scholars.org/wpp Membership is by invite only so if you are interested in fiddling with code … Read more
A Helpful IELTS Resource: Recommended IELTS Teacher
Mushroom Recommended Teacher Back in 2021, I was lucky enough to work with this excellent teacher in Xiada University. She has been teaching IELTS for 12 years and now runs her own WeChat channel sharing tips about the IELTS exam, focusing on speaking and writing. If you are preparing for your IELTS test, please … Read more
IELTS Writing: Synonyms
Here is a link to some useful IELTS advice regarding synonyms: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/JebH7ae94u24q2DjSv-QqA Note that the various words presented in the vocabulary list on the other end of that link aren’t necessarily better or worse than other words you might use. The point is that you should try to vary your language by learning how to … Read more
Celebrating Student Authors
We have been lucky enough to have two successful student authors share their work on Mushroom. The two books below were winners in a school book writing competition. Read The Apocalypse here 🙂 Read A Rip in Mythology: Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5
The Wizard’s Mission: Cover Design
Having been teaching English literature as part of my day job for the last few years, I thought I really ought to put some of this knowledge together to create my own novel. So, for my 50th birthday treat, I set a little book-writing challenge for myself. I took some of the characters and plot … Read more
Mushroom E-Magazine Issue 2
This is the second Mushroom E-Magazine celebrating students’ work. This issue is all about Shakespeare. For full functionality of links or to print a copy, you can download the pdf. [dflip id=”13650″][/dflip]
Mushroom E-Magazine Issue 1 (The Prototype)
I have an opportunity this academic year to encourage discussion between students of different grades in my school so I am seizing this opportunity. I am hoping in the future to expand this to enable students in different schools to discuss their English learning together. This e-Magazine is the first step towards that second goal. … Read more
The Teacher
An epic adventure written for children by children. As Aladin-Man and Freya’s children grow, they become interested in the creation of a school. With the help of King Aladin-Or, who has recently founded the kingdom’s first zoo, they find suitable venues for classrooms and enlist a magical and very knowledgeable fellow to become the teacher. … Read more
Quest across the Pirate Sea: The Red Icebergs
An epic adventure written for children by children. Adventurers from another land come to ask King Aladin-Or for help with a problem. On their way they encounter all sorts of monsters and get involved in a competition between different pirate teams. Will King Aladin-Or and his mighty superhero brother Aladin-Man be able to help the … Read more
Mysteries of Danger Mountain and the Rubbish Dump
An epic adventure written for children by children in GRAPHIC NOVEL FORMAT! A baddie team reconstruct a dangerous machine and cause trouble in Aladin-Or’s kingdom. While the mighty superhero Aladin-Man is occupied with that problem, other baddie teams come out to cause mischief. This results in an adventure at Danger Mountain and culminates in an … Read more
Trenchwalker
An epic adventure story written for children by children. When the superhero Aladin-Man finds himself with new priorities, a mysterious relative comes to help. This story was developed by a six-year-old and a four-year-old through their play together. As the children played and narrated the story they were creating, the editor simply wrote it down. … Read more