SG World's National Schools Poetry Competition
Wow deadline extended to End of Summer Term! Enter today!
A great exercise to get your children thinking about what might happen during their perfect day with fantastic prizes on offer. Get your children writing today!
How you organise your schools entries is entirely up to you. It could form part of a classroom activity or simply a homework project.
How many poems can my school enter?
Your school can enter as many poems as you like per group. Each poem should consist of up to 16 lines and be entitled “My Perfect Day”.
The competition is divided into 3 groups according to academic year:
How are the winners chosen?
The poems will be judged by a panel of independent judges, who will choose 3 finalists from each year group category.
All 9 finalists will then be invited to a live final and will be given the opportunity to recite their poems for the judges so they can choose a final winner in each category.
Each finalist will win a Nintendo DSi, and the overall winner from each age category will also win a 12 month family Merlin pass to a variety of theme parks in the UK. The 3 winning pupils' schools will each get £1000 and a years supply of SG World's Incident Reporting system.
How do I enter?
This competition is run in support of children's mobility charity Whizz-Kidz and we are asking that all schools make a one-off donation of £5 to enter the competition. All entry fees will be donated directly to the charity – thank you for your support!
1. Once you have chosen your entries, They need to be supplied as Word documents using the template you can download from here.
Download Poetry layout template.
You need to email your entries to competition@sgworld.com
You then need to simply complete the online entry form here.
2. Now all you have to do is make your £5 entry fee donation. To do this, please visit:www.justgiving.com/SGWorld. Alternatively you can post a £5 note or a cheque for £5 made payable to 'Whizz-Kidz' Competition, SG World Ltd, Duchy Road, Crewe, Cheshire, CW1 6ND.
For full terms and conditions click here.
Closing date for entries is the End of the Summer Term. So enter today!
With schools finishing for the Summer holidays on different days we have not specified an end date just the End of Summer Term so get your entries in before finishing for summer. The entries will be judged during the summer break and announced at the beginning of the next academic year.
We are also planning to publish every poem on a dedicated website to make sure that everyone's poems can be seen so please enter today and make your donation to Whizz-Kidz!