Newsflash!

Mr Mithen is STILL the Grand Chief of Awesomeness!

Mr. Mithen

Competition!

We are going to construct a story together.  I will start off with a couple of sentences then to enter the competition you send in one or two sentences that you think will be good to carry on the story!  Beginning next week the story will be read out in assembly.  There are a lot of prizes to be won including Alien pens, bookmarks, a Secret Code book for PSP and PS2 and a Fabbity Fab journal by Louise Rennison.

 The story continues throughout the week and there is no upper limit to winners, the story can be updated any time so check back often.

 The Story

One fine day Alice was walking down the street dressed in her finest, most colourful clothes.  Today was a special day.

(continue the story by posting comments, the ones that appear with *WINNER* will carry on the story.  Check back often to see the story progress.)

Upper School Competition, Write about History!

Is there a writing competition for every subject?  Yes there is!  This is the History one open to Year 10 and above only!  Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write a story about and event or a person from English History.  In no more than 700 words.  Make it funny, interesting, exciting, unusual, just make it GOOD!  For help and ideas check out the flyer/entry form below and if you would like to enter and win give your entry to Miss Berrisford in the Library.

http://www.history.org.uk/pdfs/Great_Tales_competition_flyer1.pdf

International Science Poetry Competition

Yes now you too could write a poem on the theme of SCIENCE and win international acclaim! (and a nice shiny trophy, and the chance to boast to all your friends!)  The poem could be about anything from science lessons, to the problems with genetics.  From what you think about science teachers to what makes up an atom!  Check out the following website for details!  and don’t forget that the Reading and Writing Club runs every Tuesday after school if you want some help!

http://www.sciencetime.com.au/ser/poetcomp.html

Math Writing Competition!

Look! Is it Maths?  Is it English?  NO!  It’s BOTH!!

 Check out this writing competition open to anyone in secondary school or college!  Investigate one of the people who have contributed something to maths, maybe Einstein, Aristotle, Galileo, Stephen Hawking.  And then write an article about thier lives in no more than 900 words.  And mathematicians are more interesting than you might think!  Crime, fights, hissy fits, murder, insanity, mathematicians have done it all!  Not to mention the few that were so eccentric they make your Great-Aunt Mildred look sane!

 (no offence to anyone’s Great Aunt Mildred)

http://plus.maths.org/competition/guidelines_schools.html  – check out the website for more information