NBH Prep pupil wins creative writing competition ahead of 1,400 entrants
A classic National Literacy Trust competition. Over 1,400 entries. Just one winner: North Bridge House Prep School’s Alex Dimitriou. The talented Year 6 pupil won the Descriptosaurus Time Machine competition with 350 words of creative genius set in the time of French Revolution.
Inspired by the popular Descriptosaurus series by Routledge, the National Literacy Trust’s competition challenged students to produce a piece of descriptive writing set in the past, present or future.
Alongside his classmates, who also enjoyed taking part in the challenge, Alex travelled back in time to craft a very vivid tale around the Setting – Character – Interaction – Reaction (SCIR) concept studied in class. You can read his winning entry, Saint Guillotine below.
“The Descriptosaurus challenge took me into a world of literature. If I wasn’t at school when I heard the news [that I’d won], I would have fainted on the spot!” said Alex.
As the overall winner of the competition – category winners and runners up were also selected – Alex won an eReader and £50 worth of book tokens, plus £250 worth of Routledge books and membership to the National Literacy Trust Network for the school. Alison Wilcox, author of Descriptosaurus Time Machine, will also be paying a highly anticipated visit to NBH Prep to run workshops with Alex and his classmates.
Alex’s teacher and Head of English at NBH Prep, Miss Lee, said:
“I was absolutely ecstatic to hear the amazing news and as a school, we are incredibly proud of Alex. I have always loved using Descriptosaurus as a writing resource as it really inspires children, modelling noteworthy sentences. It definitely raises the level of their description.”
From 17th Century Japan to a distant drought land in the year 10,999, all participating Year 6 NBH pupils really stretched their imaginations with the Descriptosaurus competition and found real purpose in their writing. We congratulate all of them and of course our overall winner, Alex. Well done!
Read Alex's winning entry
Published on: 9th June 2017
