• Story competition for Key Stage 2 Pupils
• Writing competition for Secondary Pupils

Story competition for Key Stage 2 pupils

The Doncaster Book Award is delighted to be able to announce a KS2 story competition, with prizes generously sponsored by the Rotary Club of Doncaster St Leger, and with the top few winning entries going forward to a regional Yorkshire Rotary Clubs’ story competition.

Here is the competition in a nutshell:

• Open to all KS2 pupils – Y3 to Y6
• Story must begin: “I heard a loud noise, everything around me rocked and ...”
• 500 words maximum, hand-written by the pupil
• Deadline: Friday 10th February 2012 [break-up day for half term]
• Pupil's name, age, yeargroup and school should be written in the top right corner of the first page

The short deadline is to ensure sufficient time for the top Doncaster entries to be submitted to the regional final by 28th February. Details of where to send entries will follow after Christmas, along with a poster for librarians and teachers to display in school.

PRIZES: Many thanks indeed to Doncaster St Leger Rotary Club for these stupendous prizes!

• First prize: £50.00 ... plus a treat for the school - children’s author/illustrator Chris Mould for a day!
• Second prize: £30.00
• Third prize: £20.00

Chris Mould is the author of the Something Wickedly Weird series plus the current DBA longlisted Pip and the Twilight Seekers. He is also a successful illustrator of many children’s books, such as the Measle Stubbs series and Vesuvius Poovius. Chris will be a guaranteed source of delight for pupils. See www.somethingwickedlyweird.com for further details.

Writing Competition for Secondary Pupils

Still time to enter! Closes at midnight on Sunday May 20th.

You may have seen a poster in your school advertising this – if not, you can download the poster here.

PRIZES:

• First prize: £50.00 … plus, for your school, a writing workshop day with Dave Cryer
• Second prize: £30.00
• Third prize: £20.00

COMPETITION:

Task One: Olympic Commentary

You are a commentator for one or more 2012 London Olympic events. Somehow, characters from books, particularly this year’s DBA titles, have qualified! Your task is to write a script which might be broadcast – perhaps Mr Monroe has made the 100m final? Maybe Mrs Cotton is cheating in the Heptathlon? You can use imaginary events as well as real ones. You could have more than one commentator voice in the script. It doesn’t have to be funny, but it probably will be.

Task Two: Olympic Story

Write a story which:

a) Includes one or more characters from this year’s DBA books

b) Has some link to the Olympics, but not necessarily an obvious one

This task is more likely to be serious, but of course you can make it funny if you’d like to.

Competition Rules (these apply whether you choose Task One or Task Two):

• Open to all secondary pupils
• 500 words maximum
• Copy and paste your entry into the form below or submit direct to Dave Cryer on davecryer(аt)doncasterbookaward.net
• Pupil name, age, year group and school must be included with your entry
• Deadline: Midnight, Sunday May 20th

To enter the competition please fill in the details below. We recommend that you write your piece of text in a word processor first, saving it regularly as you work on it. Then when it's finished, select the whole text, copy it, then paste it into the box below using Control-V (on Windows computers) or Command-V (on Apple Mac computers).

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