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Mini Sagas - The Adventure Starts Here
  • A classroom activity
  • Motivate pupils
  • Win prizes for your school
  • Free gift for every entrant
  • Free copy of the book your pupils appear in
  • Supports Every Child Matters Enjoy & Achieve outcome





Golden Rules of Min Sagas

About The Competition

  • Develops writing and creative skills
  • Mini sagas can be on any theme
  • Must be a maximum of 50 words
  • Downloadable lesson plans that compliment the Key Stage 3 curriculum
  • Supports Every Child Matters Enjoy & Achieve outcome
  • Mini sagas are selected on the basis of imagination, expression and writing ability
  • Selected mini sagas are published in a regional anthology

It's Easy to Take Part

  • Encourage your pupils to write a mini saga on any theme
  • Pupils write their mini saga on the entry form including their name, age and contact address (home and/or school)
  • Complete the school entry form. Alternatively a piece of school headed paper with a contact name and the number of entries enclosed is acceptable
  • Send one school entry form with each envelope of entries submitted

Need Some Inspiration?
Encourage your pupils and get them inspired by downloading the idea generator!

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Theme Ideas
Myths and legends, a bizarre experiment, an event in history, unexplained mysteries, an alien visiting Earth, an accident or disaster, modern day Shakespeare, sci-fi, a holiday or journey, fairy tales.

Mini Saga Examples

How to enter Mini Sagas

Print Pupil Entry Form | Print School Entry Form | Print Lesson Plan | Print Idea Generator

Send your entries to:
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Mini SAGAS The Adventure Starts Here Secondary School, Young Writers, Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive, Woodston, Peterborough, PE2 9BF
Competition closes 29th April 2011
(If for any reason you missed the deadline please give us a call and we’ll make every effort to accommodate late entries.)


Prizes from Mini SagasPrizes for Mini Sagas

For Schools

  • £1,000 - 1st Prize for the school with best overall set of entries
  • £500 - 2nd Prize
  • £250 - 3rd Prize
  • Complimentary copy of the book your pupils appear in
    (Plus additional copy if over 100 entries are sent)

For Pupils

  • A Bookmark - for every entrant.
  • Certificate of Merit - for every selected writer.

Get In touch with Mini Sagas

If you have any questions or require further entry forms or posters please get in touch.

Young Writers, Remus House, Coltsfoot Drive, Woodston, Peterborough, PE2 9BF

Tel: 01733 890066 Fax: 01733 313524

Email: info@youngwriters.co.uk

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