Oakbank School pupils have participated in an international collaborative story-writing project.

It is the third year that students from the Keighley school have taken part in the scheme, called Write Path.

Well-known authors are chosen to write a paragraph to begin a story, and pupils from schools across the world are then given an hour to add a paragraph to the story in turn.

This year, Oakbank’s students were given the task of continuing stories begun by Gillian Cross, author of The Demon Headmaster series, and Marcus Sedgwick, who wrote the award-winning novel My Swordhand is Singing.

The Keighley pupils’ literary contributions were finished off by students from a school in New York. All the Write Path stories will be published in a paperback, which will be available to buy.

The pupils from years nine and seven worked on the stories in pairs. Year nine pupil Natalie Stone said: “It was difficult to see how to continue our story at first, but once we’d discussed it for a while we had some really good ideas.”

l Oakbank School is celebrating a strong showing in a Keighley and district cross-country run. The school took a 12 runners to the event, held in the grounds of Cliffe Castle Museum.

The team included year seven athletes Charlie O’Hare and Lucy Shutt, who were taking part in their first race for the school.

A spokesman for Oakbank said: “The conditions were wet but all the runners did themselves proud and put in a fantastic performance. Notable Oakbank School performances came from Zara Knappy, second place, Sam Mitchell, third, and Joel Fothergill, seventh.

“Other team members were Tegan Knappy, Eleanor Robinson, Mia Themistocleus, Emily Cox, Seth Berry, Ben Wortley and Kemmie Smith.”