The International Writing Cup is back for another year, with a brand new format!
We’re launching a special Writing Triathlon on 1st November 2018. Students will be challenged to write three different pieces of writing that are all linked by the theme of writing an amazing adventure story.
Stage 1: Instructions
This will challenge students to write a set of instructions to explain how to write an excellent adventure story.
Stage 2: Report
At the next stage, students will need to invent a lead character for an adventure story and write a description of it. The report should be longer than a 50-word minimum and should include a selection of awesome adjectives.
Stage 3: Adventure Story
At the final stage, students will be challenged to use their instructions and report to help them to write an amazing adventure story.
The Prizes
The Team Trophy (One for each age group: Age 6-8 / Age 9+)
We will be sending a trophy to the class that has the highest percentage of students that complete the triathlon. The winning class will have their name engraved on the trophy as they’re crowned ICW18 champions!
The Individual Trophy (One for each age group: Age 6-8 / Age 9+)
The IWC18 judging panel will select the overall winner based on their favourite writing. They will consider how well each piece of writing fits the format and the success criteria students have been set.
Contestant Badges and Certificates
All students that successfully complete all three stages of the Writing Triathlon will win a special IWC18 badge and certificate signed by Joshua Davidson, author of the Night Zookeeper book series.
When is the competition end date?
Your students will have until the 30th November 2018 to complete all three stages of the Writing Triathlon to the best of their ability.
Please encourage your students to edit and redraft their writing to be in with a chance to be crowned International Writing Cup champion 2018!
How do I take part with my students?
Download this teacher manual – It includes full instructions and modelled examples for each stage of the competition.
You can also sign into your Night Zookeeper account and send this lesson to your students. They have the whole of November to complete it to the best of their ability!
COUNT ME IN!!!!!
My students are going to love this competition! We are in!
What an awesome motivation to get students engaged in writing. I love this website!
Thanks so much for your feedback, Hayley! We’ll be in touch soon with the competition lesson for November! 🙂
Yes please
I’m interested!
That’s awesome Kara! I’ll be in touch with the lesson on the 1st November 🙂
Our class is VERY interested!!
We’re in!
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Awesome! We’re in!
Our Growth Mindsets are ready for the challenge!
Sounds wonderful! We are in!
This sounds fantastic! Count us in please!
My class are definitely in!
That’s great to hear Chris! We’ll be sending the lesson out to everyone on the 1st November!
My students will love this! Do they need to have a paid subscription to take part?
Hi Dawn, it is great that you’d like to take part. The competition is for teachers and schools with subscriptions as you will need access to the Lesson Hive in order to take part. Please do let us know if you have any further questions regarding our subscription options.
Best wishes,
Paul
We would love to do this!
Awesome Tiffany! We’ll be in touch soon with the competition lesson for your students.
My children would like to participate, please!
Yes, my class is in!!
Sign us up!! This sounds great!
Please sign us up!! My kids are ready for the challenge!!
So glad you can join in for another year Jodi!!! I’ll be in touch soon with the competition lesson!
I would like to do this!
Please sign me up!
No problem Josh. I’ll be in touch soon with more info for the competition!
My class would definitely like to take part!
We are very keen, count us in!!
Yes, please
Count my class in!
I would like to let everyone know that you just need to send this lesson to take part in the IWC18 competition: https://www.nightzookeeper.com/edu/teacher/lessons/view/5bcdf5664e59970003f3bd7f