{"id":5349,"date":"2012-10-09T18:51:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T17:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/?p=5349"},"modified":"2023-04-27T18:52:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T17:52:41","slug":"literary-competition-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/2012\/10\/09\/literary-competition-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary Competition Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1525&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]AWARD-winning young writers had their creative talents recognised at a special ceremony at Cirencester\u2019s Royal Agricultural College attended by parents and local dignitaries.<\/p>\n<p>Over 700 pupils from local primary schools entered the literary competition, which is now in its fourth year and is sponsored by the Cirencester &amp; district Soroptimists.<\/p>\n<p>The main purpose of the competition is to encourage children to use language in original and creative ways and entrants had several different titles to choose from.<\/p>\n<p>In a nod to the Olympics, first, second and third winners in each age group were presented with gold, silver and bronze-coloured medals by local children\u2019s author Lynne Armstrong-Hobbs.<\/p>\n<p>Soroptimist co-organiser Linda Benatar said: \u201cWe were quite overwhelmed with the response this year and the standard was very good. There are always some children who absolutely shine.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-921 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2012\/10\/2012literarycomp2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2012\/10\/2012literarycomp2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2012\/10\/2012literarycomp2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2012\/10\/2012literarycomp2.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Year 5 and 6 winner was Archie Bretherton from Powell\u2019s School (now at Marling), with Law (Kemble) placed second and Hannah Braiden (Ann Edwards) third. Grace Mansell, Chloe Marvell, Ryan Chestermen, Lilyana Goodier, Louis Hinds, Lottie Carpenter, and Sienna Ambler were highly commended.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-922\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2012\/10\/2012literacycomp3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2012\/10\/2012literacycomp3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2012\/10\/2012literacycomp3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2012\/10\/2012literacycomp3.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Year 3 and 4 first prize went to Hannah Jackson from Kemble School, with second place awarded to Isla Stannanaught (Sapperton) and third prize scooped by Sally Hull (Down Ampney). Amelia Calvert and Willoughby Norrie were highly commended.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]First prize for the younger age group of Years 1and 2 was awarded to ArywenMorris from Stratton School, with second prize going to Bethan Jones (Powell\u2019s) and third prize going to Joshua Parsons<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-923\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2012\/10\/2012Literary-comp4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2012\/10\/2012Literary-comp4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2012\/10\/2012Literary-comp4-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cirencester\/files\/2012\/10\/2012Literary-comp4.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\u00a0(Down Ampney). Bessie Taylor, Charlie Mullock and Ellie Swadling were highly commended.<\/p>\n<p>The school of the winning entry in each year group was given a shield to keep for a year, and Mrs Armstrong-Hobbs gave three of her own autographed books for the school\u2019s library.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1525&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]AWARD-winning young writers had their creative talents recognised at a special ceremony at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":840,"featured_media":1525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Literary Competition Awards | News | Blog | Events | SI Cirencester and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Cirencester and District : Blog &amp; News : Literary Competition Awards : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Cirencester and District . 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