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‘Creative’, ‘hopeful’ and ‘passionate’ essays from Jersey schoolchildren, including one which depicts a Syrian war victim’s dream place filled with cascading waterfalls, jade green meadows and Willy Wonka, have won 36 awards at a prestigious international writing contest.
Pupils from Grainville, JCG, Mont Nicolle and St Michael’s schools have beaten thousands of other youngsters around the world in the oldest and largest youth writing contest in the world, the Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition.
Over 12,300 essays were entered from 44 Commonwealth countries in the 2017 competition, which requested writers to submit works in the form of scripts, letters, poems or folk tales on the theme 'A Commonwealth for Peace’.
148 Jersey students entered the competition which is used to build confidence, develop writing skills, support creativity and encourage critical thinking, using literacy to empower young people to become global citizens, scooping 36 awards in total including: six gold, seven silver and 23 bronze awards.
The winning students were presented with gift vouchers by His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor at a ceremony organised by the Royal Commonwealth Society Jersey Branch at the Town Hall this week.
Pictured: Jersey students won 36 awards at international writing competition which promotes creativity and encourages critical thinking.
A special award was also given to gold winner Juliette Bale, for her essay detailing a Syrian child’s dream world filled with chocolate, green meadows and even Umpa Lumpas to escape the harsh reality of war.
The Year 6 student’s essay which reads, “…the water cascaded over in a solid sheet, and then went crashing down into a boiling, churning, whirlpool of froth and spray. I greedily gulped down some of the chocolate, because it smelt like a small piece of heaven. Next, I carefully picked some of the green grass blades so I could try that too. It was soft, sweet and exquisite”, was awarded the RCS Jersey Award Cup as it was judged to be the best from the island.
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