Academic Competitions Member Schools organise a range of competitions throughout the academic year, with the aim of bringing members of the FOBISIA community together, ultimately to inspire and challenge students' learning in a range of academic subject areas, including English, D&T, ICT, Maths, and Social Science.
Ambiguity Fosters Short Story Creativity By Gemma Hudson, Activities Coordinator & Jenny Simmons, Marketing Manager, British School Jakarta
The Online Short Story Competition was hosted by Bangkok Patana School from 15 January to 15 March, 2018. This year’s Short Story Competition invited entrants to write about the theme ‘Watch’. For the first time, it also included a category for students in Years 3 and 4.
category. All British School Jakarta entrants will receive an anthology of their stories, in celebration of their work.
The theme’s deliberate ambiguity fostered enormous creativity from the story writers. Over the three age groups, our internal adjudicators received 11 stories, two of which were put forward to FOBISIA - who themselves received more than 80 stories from 40 Member Schools. From this original longlist, a shortlist of five entries in each category were then sent to this year’s external judge - poet, writer and recording artist, Mr Donovan Christopher (a.k.a. Rappaman). Mr Christopher said, “It has been a pleasure reading all 15 stories...I have been really impressed with the standard and levels of work. The stories were all very intriguing and a delight to read and I was getting ideas myself while reading them. I was really amazed with the Year 3 and 4 stories - the choice of adjectives, words and structure of sentences.”
The stories were all very intriguing and a delight to read and I was getting ideas myself while reading them.” - Mr Donovan Christopher (a.k.a. Rappaman)
Many congratulations to Tiffany, whose story, Life’s Countdown, was selected as a finalist in the Year 5 and 6