Little Scribe Mini-Writing Festival

We are excited to announce that Emanuel School will be participating in the Little Scribe Mini-Writing Festival starting on Monday 26 July 2021. The Little Scribe Mini-Writing Festival is a wonderful way to continue to foster and celebrate creative writing at our School. With exceptional authors inspiring a generation of young writers, the Little Scribe Mini-Writing Festival promotes writing for a purpose and inspires learners to engage with quality literature. It also provides students with an interactive experience, culminating in their stories being read by an audience of their peers.

Whether learning from home or learning at school, students in Years K-6 will engage in online author workshops with much-loved Australian children’s authors including; Deborah Abela, Tristan Bancks, Andrew Daddo, Jackie French, Susanne Gervay, John Heffernan, Wendy Orr and Oliver Phommavanh to name a few.

In their class resource pack this week, students received an envelope with some post-it note pre-workshop tasks, a set of post-it notes and a little pen. These fun tasks serve as an introduction to the Little Scribe Mini-Writing Festival and we would appreciate it if you could complete these with your child.

In Week 3, as the festival begins, students will participate in online author workshops, exploring elements of writing appropriate for their developmental stage. Teachers may also choose to engage with the workshops as recordings. These will be available for the rest of the year. Modelled by the authors, the writing elements will include character development, plots and problems, reflective questions, settings, poetry and fact vs opinion. More details about the Little Scribe Mini-Writing Festival may be found here. 

Samantha Rogut
Head of Library and Information Services K-6