Just 4 days left to the Clever Competition deadline!
April 20, 2022 at 4:01 pm | Posted in Clever Competitions | Leave a commentTags: A Terrific Tiger Tale writing competition, Stories about Genghis Khan for kids, The Chinese Calendar Tales, The Tale of Temujin, Writing Competitions for Kids, Writing competitions for primary school kids
There are just 4 days left till the deadline for my Terrific Tiger Tale writing competition! So if you haven’t sent your entry in yet, you need to get rampaging, like my Temujin! You can find all the details on my Clever Competition page here! I can’t wait to read your story!
That was a BUSY week!
March 6, 2022 at 12:43 am | Posted in Hong Kong Schools, mainland China schools | Leave a commentTags: A Terrific Tiger Tale writing competition, How to Write a Riveting Story, Stories about Chinese history for kids, Stories about Hong Kong history, The Chinese Calendar Tales, The Marvellous Adventures of Maggie and Methuselah, The Tale of Chester Choi, The Tale of Temujin, Writing Competitions for Kids, Writing workshops for kids
This week I had a fabulous time Zoom-visiting schools in Hong Kong and mainland China in the early hours of the morning from here in France!
On Tuesday, I visited the Year 4 students at Yew Chung International School in Chongqing with my writing workshop How to Write a Riveting Story! The kids used my story planner as I explained the importance of characters, setting and plot sequence, and by the end of the session had some fantastic story plans ready to go for their first draft! I can’t wait to see the results! Thanks to my lovely host, English co-ordinator Becca Roden for inviting me!
On Wednesday I visited the Kindies at Sias International School of Zhengdong New District, Zhengzhou to introduce them to my Chinese Calendar Tales with a fun reading of The Tale of Chester Choi, with my toy dragon Billy Boy looking on, then on Friday I visited the whole of primary school during assembly, where I talked all about How I became an Author and the crucial importance of reading books in the digital age, following which they roared like tigers and screamed like spoiled princesses while I read them this year’s Calendar Tale, The Tale of Temujin! Many thanks to librarian and media specialist Elizabeth Baker and tech wizard Tom Kerrigan for making the visit possible!
Meanwhile on Thursday, I finished my four sessions with my old friends at Stamford American School Hong Kong with a visit to 100 fabulous Year 5s in their homes, where I explained all the fabulous history and real-life mystery behind The Marvellous Adventures of Maggie and Methuselah (A Mystery in Hong Kong)! Thank you Aric Cherry for being such a fun host, and as ever, to Lisa Olinski for all the fantastic organisation!
And today, I slept in…for a long, long time :)!
It was a real pleasure to be working with such enthusiastic and focused students! I look forward to seeing lots of entries from you in my latest Clever Competition, A Terrific Tiger Tale!
It’s time for a writing competition about TIGERS!
February 2, 2022 at 6:40 pm | Posted in Clever Competitions | Leave a commentTags: Books about Chinese history for kids, Books about Chinese Zodiac, Stories about tigers, The Chinese Calendar Tales, The Tale of Temujin, Writing Competitions for Kids
It’s a brand new Year of the Tiger, and what better way to celebrate than a story writing competition for primary school aged kids around the world! So if you’re (a) a kid, (b) primary school-aged, (c) living somewhere on Planet Earth and (d) someone who loves writing stories, this competition is the one for you!
This time, your story must include:
- a ferocious tiger
- a Chinese princess
- a wise silkworm
- an inquisitive hawfinch (and if you don’t know what that is, you’ll have to look it up!)
- a magical pepper grinder
- a terrible famine
- the colour aureolin (and if you don’t know what that is, you’ll have to look it up as well!)
Now if the first four characters sound a lot like the characters in The Tale of Temujin, you’d be right! But your story must be completely different to my story, thank you very much!!
You can start right now, and the deadline is Sunday 23rd April. So that gives you a whole ten weeks to get your stories in! Go to my Clever Competitions page right away to find out all the details!
The Results are out in The Oxcellent Ox Tale Competition!
April 23, 2021 at 11:31 pm | Posted in Clever Competitions, Writing competitions for kids | 1 CommentTags: Sarah Brennan's Clever Competitions, The Oxcellent Ox Tale Competition, The Tale of Oswald Ox, Writing Competitions for Kids
Hooray! At last the results are out in my Oxcellent Ox Tale Competition! Thank you so much for your patience! It was horribly difficult to judge, with a fabulous 44 entries from 19 schools in 6 cities around the world: Brisbane, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Sydney, Taiwan and Ely in the United Kingdom!
Congratulations to everyone who entered. And special congratulations to the Top Six in each of the Year 1 to 3 and Year 4 to 6 Categories, as well as some fabulous Honourable Mentions and Special Mentions!
Click on my Clever Competitions page right away to read the fantastic winning entries!
Places were as follows:
Year 1 to 3 Category
FIRST PLACE: Sophia Dennison, Year 3, French International School Hong Kong, 8 years old
SECOND PLACE: Luke Jackson, Year 3, Arden Anglican School, NSW, Australia, 8 years old
THIRD PLACE: Seraphina Zhuang, Year 3, Arden Anglican School, NSW, Australia 8 years old
FOURTH PLACE; Lillian Xue, Year 3, Arden Anglican School, NSW, Australia, 8 years old
FIFTH PLACE: Muyao Zhang, Year 3, Arden Anglican School, NSW, Australia, 8 years old
SIXTH PLACE: Freya Bainbridge, Year 3, Shrewsbury International School Hong Kong, 8 years old
HONOURABLE MENTION: Ivan He, Grade 3, Stamford American School Hong Kong, 8 years old
SPECIAL MENTIONS:
Leona Huang, Year 1, Arden Anglican School, NSW, Australia, 6 years old
Louise Pan, Year 1, Arden Anglican School, NSW, Australia, 6 years old
Year 4 to 6 Category
FIRST PLACE: James Bruser Zarin, Year 5, Shrewsbury International School Hong Kong, 10 years old
SECOND PLACE: Reva Kamath, Year 4, Discovery College Hong Kong, 8 years old
THIRD PLACE: Therese Li, Year 4, Arden Anglican School, NSW, Australia, 8 years old
FOURTH PLACE: Akshadha Madan, Year 5, Shrewsbury International School Hong Kong, 9 years old
FIFTH PLACE: Renee Wong and Kate Chiu, Year 6, Renaissance College Hong Kong, both 11 years old
SIXTH PLACE: Tanvi Pati, Year 4, Renaissance College Hong Kong, 8 years old
HONOURABLE MENTIONS:
Amira Datwani, Year 5, Renaissance College Hong Kong, 9 years old
Abigail Wright, Year 6, Oxley State School, Brisbane, Australia, 10 years old
Jake Jung, Year 5, Ermington Public School, Sydney, Australia, 10 years old
Just 5 days left for your Oxcellent Ox Tale!
March 23, 2021 at 5:32 pm | Posted in Writing competitions for kids | Leave a commentTags: Sarah Brennan's Clever Competitions, The Oxcellent Ox Tale Competition, The Tale of Oswald Ox, Writing Competitions for Kids
Moooo!
Oswald Ox would like to remind you that you have just 5 days left to get your entries in to the Oxcellent Ox Tale story writing competition! The competition is open to primary school students anywhere in the world! Click on my Clever Competition page right away to find out all about it!
Squawk! Just 16 days left in my Oxcellent Ox Tale writing competition!
March 12, 2021 at 11:20 pm | Posted in Clever Competitions | Leave a commentTags: Books about Chinese Zodiac, The Oxcellent Ox Tale Competition, The Tale of Oswald Ox, Writing Competitions for Kids
The rooster from my The Tale of Oswald Ox is raising a loud alarm! You’ve got just 16 days left to get in your entry in my Oxcellent Ox Tale writing competition for primary school aged kids! So if you haven’t started writing your story, you’d better get started this weekend! You can find all the details about the competition here!
Just 26 days to get your entries into the Oxcellent Ox Tale Competition!
March 2, 2021 at 12:14 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentTags: The Chinese Calendar Tales, The Oxcellent Ox Tale Competition, The Tale of Oswald Ox, Writing Competitions for Kids
The rooster from Oswald Ox’s farm is sounding the alarm! You’ve got just 26 DAYS left to get your entry into my An Oxcellent Ox Tale writing competition, with fabulous prizes including a FREE author visit to your school! Go to my Clever Competition page right away for all the details (you’ll need to scroll down a little). I can’t wait to read your entry!
And another story competition for all you writers out there!
February 3, 2021 at 10:04 pm | Posted in Kids4Kids HK, Writing competitions for kids | Leave a commentTags: Kids4Kids, Writing Competitions for Kids
As you know, I’m a great fan of Kids4Kids and their amazing work in the community creating leaders and change-makers among young people! So I’m very excited to let you know about their annual fabulous writing competition for primary school kids!
It’s open to all primary school students attending school in Hong Kong, and stories may be submitted in English, Chinese, or both, along with illustrations. All of the submitted stories will be published on their website, and if your story is one of the ten most outstanding, you’ll be published in their annual volume! Take a look at the stories submitted last year here!
But you must get your entry in by the 28th February! So click on this link right away to register and find out more details! Best of luck!
It’s an OXCELLENT time for another Clever Competition!
January 26, 2021 at 12:28 am | Posted in Clever Competitions | Leave a commentTags: Primary School writing competition, The Tale of Oswald Ox, Writing Competitions for Kids, Year of the Ox
Hooray! It’s almost the Year of the Ox!
And to celebrate that wise and sensible animal, it’s time we had another Clever Competition!
The Oxcellent Ox Tale Competition is an international story writing competition open to any student of primary school age living anywhere in the world! Go to my Clever Competition page right away to find out all about it! The deadline is in 8 weeks’ time, on the 28th March, so you’ve got lots of time to enter :).
I can’t wait to read your entry!
Say hello to Therese, a worthy prize winner in my Clever Competition!
June 19, 2020 at 3:40 pm | Posted in Arden Anglican School, Beecroft, Chinese Calendar Tales, Clever Competitions | Leave a commentTags: Books about Chinese history for kids, Books about Chinese Zodiac, Boxed Set of Chinese Calendar Tales, Sarah Brennan's Clever Competitions, Writing Competitions for Kids
I’ve just received these lovely photos of the talented Therese Li of Arden Anglican School in New South Wales, Australia, who at just 7 years old was the winner of the Years 1 to 3 Category in my last Clever Competition! Here she is presenting the Boxed Set of Chinese Calendar Tales which she won for her school to the junior school librarian, Mrs Maren de Rijk! You can read Therese’s brilliant story here!
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