Twycross Newsletter AutumnWinter 2021

Twycross talents
have written their
way to success in
story competitions
The school was one of seven in the
area invited to enter the Young
Writer Competition, run by the
Market Bosworth Rotary Club. Out
of 243 entrants, Twycross students
secured five of the overall top spots
in the two ages categories 7-10, and
11-13. Judges, including a local author,
set the title “A New Start” and were
looking for signs of positivity or hope
in a story of no more than 550 words,
or poem no longer than 40 lines.
John Whitehead is the Youth Coordinator
of the Rotary Club Market
Bosworth and organiser of the
competition. Congratulating the
winners, he said, “We have chosen to
award joint 1st prizes to May and Lily.
May’s strong “New Leaf - New Life”
storyline empathised with abandoned
children taken into care, fostered and
adopted. Lily brilliantly described all
the emotions on the day in which a
trans Rose is supported in outing to
become Dylan.
The six judges, including local author
Samantha Ridgway, commented on
the high standard of work submitted
by Twycross pupils. They loved
Archie Clark’s “The Water Bottle”,
a recycling story told in the first
person by the bottle! Also impressive
were Frieda Pienaar’s story of a
girl in the forest becoming a wolf
and Eva Williams’ domestic cat
surviving within the territory of the
feral cats. They would also like to
highly commend Monty Fisher for a
powerful and moving story set in a
Nazi concentration camp. Some of
these pieces will be published in
local magazines.
Mr Whitehead also praised the
“enthusiastic response and the
creative work from Twycross pupils,”
passing on the organisers’ admiration
for the wide variety of short stories
and poems submitted by our pupils.
The Rotary Club competition
success came alongside the
Twycross Story Writing Competition.
All students from Form 3 to Senior
2 entered the contest and produced
impressive, imaginative and
thoroughly entertaining pieces
of writing to be proud of.
Voucher prizes of £15 for
first prize, £10 for second
and £5 for third, as well as
certificates, were awarded to:
Form 3
1st - Eva Williams
2nd - Frieda Pienaar
3rd - Sammy Mobayed
Form 4
1st - George Davies
2nd - Alex Pallett
3rd - Penelope Fisher
Form 5
1st - Grace Claringbull
2nd - Leo Geston
3rd - Harriet Guinan
Senior 1
1st - Lily Messer
2nd - Mya Khela
3rd - Jonty Gilman
Senior 2
1st - Keira Day
2nd - Jessica Salt
3rd - Lauren Garland
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