Hello All,
I wanted to take a moment (at this busy time of year) to
send a BIG, HUGE THANK YOU to all of the EIPS teachers who entered their students' writing into the #EIPSWRITES CreativeWriting Competition. The Students sent in some awesome work and I know that
means that YOU teachers did some awesome work with your students.
Last Saturday (June 4th), students who submitted work to the #EIPSWRITES contest were offered the chance to attend a Writer’s
Workshop with Gail Sobat. The kids had a great time! As they were leaving, I
asked them to rate the day on a scale of 1 to 10. Most of them answered 9 and
10…a few said ‘infinity’….and the lowest score was 8.5. So I would consider
that a success! For me, what was really cool about that day was to see a group
of like-minded (but not necessarily similar) kids get together to talk writing.
It was clear as they day progressed that a community was developing. It was
fairly amazing. Thank you to those teachers who filled out, collected and encouraged your kids to attend. If you have creative
writing kids that were unable to attend, but who might be looking for a writing
camp this summer, I do recommend Youthwrite. You can read about it here.
Another big round of thanks
to the teachers that indicated interest in the Creative Writing Competition
back in November when this was just a thought.
Thank you to those of
you who attended the meetings to establish the contest and rules.
Thank you to those of
you who found prizes for the competition.
Thank you to those of
you who promoted the contest with your students.
Thank you to those of
you who tracked down student and parent signatures.
Thank you to those of
you who sent in entries to me via fax, email and courier!
Thank you to those of
you who set up, supervised and fed students at the Writer’s Workshop.
Thank you to those of
you who helped with the judging.
Although the big win for me of this whole writing contest
was the beginning of creating a community of
people who care about creative writing (teachers and students) in
EIPS, we also have some student winners to announce for the 2016 competition:
Grade 11/12 – PROSE : Mackenzie S. (SAL)
Grade 9/10 PROSE- Alexis M.(FRH)
Grade 9/10 – POETRY – Jonathan E (AJS)
Grade 7/8 – PROSE – Kathryn R. (AJS)
Grade 7/8 – POETRY – Lucas H. (FTV)
Looking forward to next year!
Janice
