Literacy Week 14th to 18th March

Literacy week is a week dedicated to promoting Literacy and reading throughout the school.  There are various competitions for our pupils, ranging from creating their own book cover, poetry reading, and the much loved character day where the children come to school dressed up as a character from one of their favourite books.  Reading is promoted through 15 minutes of reading each day in class as well as the different age groups taking turns reading to children younger or older than them.

Quality Not Quantity  – The Great Short Short Story Competition

She used to jump over puddles.

The rainwater would splash, and often, a smattering of mud would appear on the red galoshes she wore. When she jumped over those puddles, she flew, as one flies high in the sky, without any inhibition, or fear; a feeling of vertigo that surpassed the eagles.  (46 words)

Task:  To write a complete short story; with a beginning, middle and end, in 50 words or less.  Find inspiration from real life, from literature, from your imagination. 

The alarm clock is screaming at me.  Come back tomorrow, I tell it, I’m still dreaming, but I don’t think it’s listening.  I consider suffocating it with my pillow, and then reluctantly I crawl out of bed and drop the clock in the toilet on the way to shower, oops. (50 words)

All stories must be original, hand written and in English.  Stories will be read by the students and staff of The English Academy, so all content must be appropriate to this audience.  All stories must be entered on a named entry form – available from your English teacher – to be considered. Entries will be judged in year group categories.  All entries to Miss Alvey by Thursday 18^th March.