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Perform poetry for the CLiPPA 2025 award
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Thursday, April 24, 2025
Schools around the country are shadowing the CLiPPA poetry award, with children choosing their favourite poems to perform and helping to spark a life-long love of poetry. The best performers could also win a place at this year's CLiPPA Poetry Award in London!
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Year 3: Design a Bookmark Competition
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Monday, March 17, 2025
The Children's Bookshow is challenging Year 3 children (ages 7-8 years) to design a bookmark featuring a favourite bird, in a competition run in partnership with the British Trust for Ornithology. The competition asks children to design a bookmark with a picture...
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2025 Henrietta Branford Writing Competition
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Wednesday, February 12, 2025
The 2025 Henrietta Branford Writing Competition is now open for entries! The competition is open to writers aged up to 19 years and the closing date is Friday 30 May 2025. The judges are looking for <s...
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2025 BBC Young Writers' Award opens
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Tuesday, January 14, 2025
You can now enter the 2025 BBC Young Writers' Award with Cambridge University, which is open to writers between the ages of 14-18 years. Entries close at 9am on Monday 24th March 2025. To enter, write a story of up to 1,000 words - no theme or subject is provi...
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Wicked Writers: Be the Change writing competition!
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Monday, January 13, 2025
Wicked Writers: Be the Change writing competition, which runs until 28 February 2025, is a persuasive writing competition inspired by the themes of Wicked the musical, which gives pupils a chance to have their voice heard and to win some exciting prizes in the process.
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Poetry By Heart 2025 launches
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Thursday, January 2, 2025
Poetry by Heart is a national poetry-speaking competition for schools and colleges, which supports students in developing confidence with poetry in an accessible and engaging way. Schools are invited to send filmed entries of their pupils performing a poem that has been chosen from the Poetry...
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BBC's 500 Words 2024 writing competition opens
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Wednesday, September 25, 2024
500 Words is now open for entries, and you have until 9pm on Friday 8 November 2024 to submit your stories of up to 500 words. There are two age categories: 5-7 and 8-11 year-olds. All children need to do is write a story they would love to read in 500 Words or...
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Join the Summer Reading Challenge 2024
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Friday, July 5, 2024
The Summer Reading Challenge is a popular activity to enjoy each summer. This year's challenge is called Marvellous Makers and it's all about creativity! From dance to drawing, junk modelling to music, there's something for everyone.
