What is World Creative Writing Month?
In March, we will host the third annual World Creative Writing Month. This is a global writing competition that invites classrooms of children from around the world to write as many stories as they can. It features a Blue Peter style totaliser where children can watch the number of words tick up!
Last year children wrote 7 million published words in March and the winning class from Harrow International School in Beijing, collectively wrote 300,000 words.
Learn more about the competition here.
What is Night Zookeeper?
The competition takes place on nightzookeeper.com, which inspires and engages children, using creativity to nurture a love of writing. It is proven to raise the attainment levels of all students as they complete fun, interactive lessons from across the curriculum.
When teachers register on nightzookeeper.com, they can create their own digital lessons to send to their students. They do this using our online editor, which includes interactive modules for drawing, writing and quiz activities. Importantly, these lessons can be adapted to teach any subject, theme or topic and are linked to every curriculum around the world.
Once lessons are completed by students, their work is automatically sent back to their teacher for assessment. This means that all student progress is saved, and can be monitored and used to inform future lesson planning. And of course, their words count towards their team’s total!
Therefore, everything your students produce on the website will count towards their success during the competition starting March 1st 2017.
Sign up and get writing now: https://www.nightzookeeper.com/world-creative-writing-month