Congratulations Team Blue!

What a week it has been be for one of our 2021 ‘Write a Book in a Day’ entries, ‘JPC Blue’ (Georgia Ellison, Liliana Beckett, Lachlan Harrop, Suru Sharma, Tilda Salisbury and Alexandra Skudder). Having been notified last Friday that they had been shortlisted for an award (be that Commended, Highly Commended or First Prize) in the Upper School (Year 10-12) Division for the ACT and NSW, the team were absolutely thrilled to find out via a virtual ceremony on Wednesday, that their book, ‘Beetle Bonanza’, had won First Prize for Best Book. This is a phenomenal achievement by this group of students, also given that there were 339 books entered into the ACT/NSW Division, and JPC Blue was a Year 10 Team competing against College Teams. It was awesome to see the way that the team went about collaborating on the day. The event is a very unique challenge in which teams of 5-10 students have 12 hours to plan, write, edit and publish a 3,500 – 5,000 word illustrated book that incorporates five parameters and five key words that are released to them on the day. In 2021, the story also needed to include identifiable Australian content. ‘Beetle Bonanza’ can be read here:

https://writeabookinaday.com/library/book.php?i=728

Congratulations again to all our teams that participated in the 2021 Write a Book in a Day competition. All our five Teams successfully completed the challenge within the 8am – 8pm time period, and have subsequently had their super books published online. The stories are designed to help bring hope to young cancer patients in hospitals all around Australia but can also be accessed by the rest of society. The competition doubles as a fundraiser for The Kid’s Cancer Project, with our teams raising a super combined total of $3,912.

Fantastic work all. We are already looking forward to the 2022 competition!

Andrew Woodman
Teacher – English/IH

Below is a link to a 5 minute video progression from the day that provides a pretty awesome insight into how these six students went about achieving what they did over the 12 hour period.