Two students from Green Point Christian College have been recognised for their creative writing talents in this year’s WriteOn Competition.
An annual creative writing contest run by the NSW Education Standards Authority for students in Years 1-6, WriteOn challenges students to compose an imaginative text in 500 words or less based off a stimulus image.
Year 5 student, Amelia M, was awarded a gold certificate for her story, ‘Memories’.
Amelia shared that she never really knew she was good at writing until Year 3 when her teacher started commenting on her work.
It was at this point she decided it might be interesting to start writing more.
Amelia admitted she is not a huge fan of fantasy novels but enjoys novels about society and learning what life is like in the real world.
Her goal is to one day be an author, but also to teach people about the joy of writing.
Year 4 student, Ellen Bowen, was awarded a silver certificate for her poem ‘The Messy Bedroom.’
Ellen reads a lot and loves reading, and one day thought why can’t I write like that?
She wanted to write like Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton in the Treehouse series, as well as some of her other home reader authors.
It was in Year 1 that her teacher introduced her to poetry, a genre she hadn’t experienced before but which she instantly loved.
Ellen likes how poetry allows the writer to tell a story through rhyme.
Ellen would also like to continue writing in the future and would even like to publish her work, both poetry and other genres.
With just six certificates given out across NSW in each section College Head of Primary, Nicole Smith, said it was a great honour for GPCC to have two awardees.
Smith also noted that this was Amelia’s second consecutive year receiving a gold award, with her story set to be published in the WriteOn 2020 anthology of work.
Source:
Press release, Aug 31
Brendan Wood, Green Point Christian College