Year 8 and 9 students this week took part in an ambitious attempt to get in the Guinness Book of World Records. Mrs. Eastlake coordinated the event, as 26 students wrote lines of a story and passed them round, and the feat was repeated in schools up and down the country in an attempt to write a story with the largest amount of contributors to it. Here are some snaps of them hard at work, linking their stories together…
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STARS! North Tyneside Schools Writing Competition
Everybody who works in our schools is invited to take part in an amazing new writing competition for all ages. Are you the next J.K.Rowling? Want to be a sports reporter? This could be your first step on the road to be a writer.Entries are welcomed in the following categories:
EYFS KS1 KS2 KS3 KS4 KS5 Staff
Only 1 entry per person please. Entries must be done independently, but can be word processed or handwritten. Entries should be no more than 2 A4 pages long.
Name, age & school should be written on the back of each entry.
Judges will be made up of a panel of teachers from different schools. Entries will be judged on originality, imagination, clarity & effect on the reader. Spelling and handwriting will not be penalised.
Winners will have their work displayed around the borough. PRIZES of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd will be awarded in each category.
Closing date for entries is 4th February 2013. Entries should be given to Mrs Eastlake, Mrs Maddison or Miss Abbott.
The theme for all writing is STARS; this can be fiction, non-fiction or poetry.
Any ideas could be used providing there is a link to stars.
Possible ideas for writing;
- famous people who are stars
- information about space
- a story about a magic star
- imagining life on another planet
