WOOHOO!

Hooray! Some of our Room 11 poets have had their work published on Poetry Box, by Paula Green:

More success for our fab-tastic writers!

Congratulations to Bridget, Olivia A, Anna, Brooklyn and Keziah!

The Russley Writers' Walk

After many, many months of talking, thinking, organising and promoting the Russley Writers' Walk was opened today by Bill Nagelkerke and Jane Buxton at a special assembly. Just to give you all an idea of the journey we went on, here's it in a nutshell:

In term 1, I told Room 11 about the Wellington Writers’ Walk. The Wellington Writers’ Walk is a walk on Wellington’s waterfront where 23 sculptures display quotations from some New Zealand novelists, poets and playwrights. The walk promotes literacy to the people of Wellington and tourists and visitors to the capital.

The tamariki and I decided that we would hold our own writing competition. So, in Term 2 we decided to use the theme of ‘Life at Russley’ and ask people to write a poem, paragraph or story about our community. We created some posters that we displayed around the school using some cool quotes and of course, Gru’s Minions!

In Term 3 during the Pirate Story pandemonium (I love a bit of alliteration!) the competition ran. Initially we didn’t get to many people entering. So we decided to do some things to promote the Writers’ Walk. The tamariki, 

-   Jumped on the intercom twice a week
-  Wrote messages in chalk on the concrete around the school
 -  Popped into classes to talk about the Writers’ Walk

Then before the Term 3 holidays, Mrs. Koster, Mrs. Sellier and Mrs. McCreanor went through all of the entries. There were heaps, and they created a shortlist. Once the shortlisted was created, the pieces of writing were sent to local authors Bill Nagelkerke and Jane Buxton for judging. Then, they selected the winners. The winners were:

Ebony, Room 17

Emily, Room 17

Nathan, Room 17

Hollie, Room 15

Xavier, Room 11

Bridget, Room 11

Lucy, Room 11

Karim, Room 11

And the Team 1 & 2 Star Entry was…Michael Visser from Room 11

Izak, Room 5

Thomas, Room 6

Kara, Room 8

Mirette, Room 6

Monica, Room 3

Matilda, Room 3

Alisha, Room 3

Jayda, Room 3

And the Team 1 & 2 Star Entry was…Hannah Smith from Room 1

While all that was happening, Mr. Wilkin, Sacha’s dad, kindly offered to design the panels for the winning pieces of writing to be displayed on.

And finally, we held a special assembly. Check out the photos that Mrs. Koster took today. 

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Another plug from Paula Green

Hi all, 

We have another lovely write up on the Poetry Box blog about our wonderful Russley children.

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