Our Writers in the Environment Camp is a 3-day literacy camp for year 6 students that has returned after a break due to pandemics, floods and other factors!
Writing Focus Aims
• to engage talented and motivated students in workshops run by popular children’s authors.
• to enable experimentation with a variety of genres and enhancement of students’ writing skills, for example characterisation, planning, setting the scene, developing a plot and different story endings.
• to immerse students within the beauty and serenity of the natural forest environment to stimulate inspiration to create new ideas.
Overnight Camp Aims
• to meet and socialise with students from other schools with similar writing talents and interests.
• to provide opportunities for students to participate in activities such as,
- utilising new writing skills in your journal
- team building and communication skills
- night activities at the campfire/amphitheatre area
- wildlife presentation
- animal spotlighting bush walk
- read your own works aloud to your peers or share your favourite poem
- planning and performing evening plays with your peers
Visiting authors this year are Nathan Luff, author TBC and Jasmine Seymour
