forum Tell me about your magical school(s)

Started November 28, 2020 by @Smile!

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I'm currently writing a story involving magical schools (like Harry Potter but obviously different). I have one school where only a selected group of kids can get in if they worship a certain God. It's very elite-ish and cult-ish. And then I have another school where it's way easier for people to get in. You don't even have to be born with magical talents to get enrolled as they have magical charms and jewelry that helps brings out hidden magic. I can try to talk more about the schools if any one is curious but if you're also writing about a magical school, please share! Any ideas or advice for me would be great too.

It's not exactly a 'magic' school, but I have a school where children born with powers can go to learn to harness them. Otherwise it's exactly the same as a normal boarding school.

My favorite part of my magic school is that they actually let the students spend their academic and conduct "merit points" on any privileged amenities on campus: vending machine access, stationery store, reservation fees for specific events venues such as the garden gazebo for a music festival performance that has to be organized extracurricularly, gymnasium membership, swimming pool access…Most students would save up their points so that they get to dorm in their own rooms by their senior year.

My favorite part of my magic school is that they actually let the students spend their academic and conduct "merit points" on any privileged amenities on campus: vending machine access, stationery store, reservation fees for specific events venues such as the garden gazebo for a music festival performance that has to be organized extracurricularly, gymnasium membership, swimming pool access…Most students would save up their points so that they get to dorm in their own rooms by their senior year.

That school sounds AWESOME. I'm very jealous of that stationery store.

My magic school, Uperany School for Essencical Magic (USEM), is a place in California that you get to with a subway called the Uperany Underground. The Uperany Underground leaves from the Elder Essence Mall, which is an underground mall that you access from sitting on a bench in Empire Park (Calif.).

The school itself is architecturally based off of the Chartwell Estate.

Uniforms are literally sweats (for classes) and polos with jeans (for meals). It's very laid back.

Also-I forgot to mention, this is for Essencics, which are people born with Essences in their hearts, which is pretty much their magic.

The Essences of Students
Air 🌬
Water 💦
Fire 🔥
Earth 🌿
Electricity⚡️
Life 🧬
Light 💡
Darkness 🌑
Energy🔋
Time ⏰
Death 💀 - Not able to be aquired at birth. Has to be created using Life and Darkness.

The Essences are found out on the first day of school at the sorting (Ik, too much like HP, I'll come up with a name for it) using a ring that glows a certain color which corresponds to the Essence.

The dorms are like these little house-looking things and each Essence group has their own wing. Two people to a 'house'.

The 'houses' have a living area, a bathroom, two bedrooms, and maybe a small kitchen… I haven't decided yet.

*More Parts coming.

That sounds awesome and so well-developed. I love it!

Yo wth @jeteloupe I want to attend this school???? This is so beautifully developed and I love it?!

Also, Elly, may I magpie the idea of a merit system? That sounds like such a cool feature to have in place at a magic school

@The-Magician and @squidazzle thank you so much! Maybe we can follow each other??? I have so much info swimming around my brain, and writing it down felt so good…. it was awesome.

Elly-I LOVE your merit idea. Very interesting.

I followed all of you guys

Also, I'm really glad that I'm not the only one doing magic schools. Definitely makes me feel better and that I'm not copying HP

Maybe we can follow each other???

Done!

😁😁

Would someone mind looking at one of my magic schools, I'd love to know what kind of things others would ask about it.
It's still in progress, but suggestions of things to add are much appreciated

It says that I don't have permission to view the page.

Try again?

There we go!

I REALLY want to get the premium version to make these kinds of pages, but I don't have a credit card, and I don't think my parents will pay for it. :(

Yeah I feel you there, that was pretty much me before I got a pay rise at work

Ah. I don't have a job (as I'm not 16, yet) but I will when I can.

I like your school! I think you could add a bit more info about the classes themselves (what is taught in the classes, tests, traits of the class [boring {think History of Magic w/ Prof. Binns} fun {DADA w/ Prof. Lupin} serious {Transfiguration w/ Prof. McGonagall} etc…]) and include the students that go there.

Alrighty, I’ll add that to list of things to work on— Thank you!

Alrighty, I’ll add that to list of things to work on— Thank you!

You're welcome! I also have a school page (it's actually a location page) but I think I'll write about it on a post soon. Could you critique that?

Yes of course! I’d love to

Thanks!

Also————- Guess what? I got an honorable mention for my short story in the Scholastic Writing and Art Contest. It’s a very prestigious national writing contest in the US. (It’s my first year, too) I’m soooo happy. I’m the only person to get anything in my middle school, which is crazy.

Thanks!

Also————- Guess what? I got an honorable mention for my short story in the Scholastic Writing and Art Contest. It’s a very prestigious national writing contest in the US. (It’s my first year, too) I’m soooo happy. I’m the only person to get anything in my middle school, which is crazy.

Wow, that's amazing! Congratulations!

Thanks! Do you guys have writing contests in England?

We do, everything from poetry to short stories. I was lucky enough to have a poem published in a collective book when I was ~9 or 10.

There are some, but I've never been very interested in entering any. I find it hard to come up with ideas for a specific purpose.
If I have an idea I want to use for a story, I'll write it, but I can't spontaneously come up with them.

Ah. I see that @squidazzle. Most of my ideas come from dreams and thoughts.

@The-Magician So do we. I got another one of my short stories published in a compilation last year, and this year I'm getting a poem of mine (which I'm not too particularly fond of) published, as well.

(Our school's Honors English/Reading Dept. is very interested in having us participate in contests, which is why I have all of these things. It's been very abundant in the past year. In fact, I'm working on a historical fiction piece for one of my classes atm.

My magic school making improved A LOT in 3 years. Three years ago I made a very much hogwarts/harry potter ripoff story and now I think I'm doing better.

So now for my schools, there are four main schools that each is for an element, fire, air, water and earth. There are two much smaller schools for darkness and light as well.

Each school used to be exclusive to students with that element but now its more relaxed and you can just go to one closest to you or the one your family comes from. The element a student has isn't really affected by family. For example, Thyver is the son of a person with air and a person without an element, his sister has air for her element but he is more water leaning, they both go to the school for air.

Not everyone in the world has an element and not everyone with an element has magic so there are several tests early in the school year to determine your element and if you have magic. The tests for magic is repeated every two months just in case you figured something out or something happened.

Since not every student has magic there are normal classes, magic classes for those without magic which are things like potions, special classes for those with magic, and classes for those who want to go into a speciality job like becoming a healer.

The students have classes for four days a week and have a three day weekend which is often spent with private mentors for magic or specialty jobs, participating in bonus activities or lessons like sports or for something specific like woodwork, going to club meetings, visiting nearby cities (supervised of course), visiting family (they're boarding schools), visiting temples to speak with ancestors, visiting other schools (especially for compitition), or just hanging out.

Dorm rooms are located on either side of the school, girls on the right, boys on the left. People can choose the side that matches their gender identity and if that is neither, they can choose the side they feel most comfortable with or take a dorm at the back of the school instead. It is two students to a dorm usually.

Each school has a similar layout for staff, a head, a deputy head, subject teachers, magic teachers, speciality teachers and solo teachers who do one on one for specific magic training, everyone who works in the dorms, resident healers (just in case), and all the people running bonus lessons and activities.

Students can live on the school grounds from when they are 8, when the first signs of an element appear, and start learning in the main building when they turn 14. During the four school days, students wear white shirts, black pants and a jacket with coloured accents, the colour of which depends on the school. During the weekend, students wear whatever they want unless a private tutor or sports coach insists otherwise, or students are visiting a temple or another school.

(this is a lot of info, quite a bit of which I just made up on the spot. Sorry for the infodump)