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The Western Sydney Wanderers have a strong
philosophy of giving back to their community.
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To write a story book and be selected by your school as the “Read with a Wanderer” entry
The AIM of this initiative is to work together with
schools, teachers and young people to improve
literacy levels across Western Sydney, and
anywhere else that this competition takes us.
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To make the “Wanderers All Star Literacy Team of the Year”
What is the “Read with a
Wanderer” Literacy Program?
The “Read with a Wanderer” literacy program is
a joint partnership between The Western Sydney
Wanderers, University of Western Sydney and AusSIP
(The Australian Schools Industry Partnership).
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11 books will be selected, one representing
every position on the field.
We invite your school to take the challenge
to improve Literacy, not only in your school,
but across the wider community.
We want to see students writing stories for
other children, so the wider community
can benefit in raising literacy levels.
Together, we have developed an opportunity for the
Wanderer’s players to read storybooks provided to them
by students, to encourage reading in the community
by showcasing positive role models. These videos will
be available for all schools across Western Sydney.
We also want everyone to experience the
enjoyment in reading by exploring books as an
individual that can increase in difficulty over
time in a non threatening environment.
The Challenge for school students
The ‘Read with a Wanderer’ program will see the
development of an online library that will continue to
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grow each year. This process will allow the recordings
of the “winning stories” to be stored online so they can
be accessed by anyone at anytime therefore improving
exposure to literacy for Western Sydney and beyond.
For 11 lucky entrants the Wanderers
and UWS will select the:
The competition will provide the Wanderers the
opportunity to celebrate the great writing talent in
the community and leverage off the Wanderers
players who are role models for our students through
their sporting achievements, to be seen actively
reading and enjoying the collection of stories that
will grow in numbers and diversity year by year.
This TEAM will have their storybook:
The purpose is to improve writing skills,
reading skills, and to provide opportunity for
developing creativity in the students.
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All winning books entered by their school each year will
receive a “Wanderers Literacy Award” for contributing
to the improvement of literacy across Western Sydney.
Your book will then automatically go into the judging
for the Wanderers All Star Literacy Team of the Year.
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Read and filmed by a Western Sydney Wanderer player (or executive member, coach, manager)
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The recording will be placed in the Wanderers online library
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A hard copy of the book will be printed (courtesy of our great partners at UWS) and signed by the player who selected their book to read.
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This book will be presented back to the
“author” at a celebration event to be held annually.
This celebration will involve the Wanderers players, the
student “authors”, the mentors from UWS, the parents
and teachers who assisted in running the program.
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Benefits of the program
This can include:
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Students reading more frequently for
schoolwork, homework and pleasure
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Parents will be able to read with
their children outside the classroom
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People from CALD backgrounds developing
stronger literacy skills as the stories will be recorded in
the language of the players origin as well as in English
to encourage more reading by all family members
UWS may provide assistance in the classroom
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Teachers have the opportunity to develop
units of work around the Wanderers Reading/
Writing challenge, to fulfil syllabus requirements
UWS will play a very significant role in this
partnership through their ability to assist
schools in raising literacy standards.
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The development of classroom opportunities
for students to read by allowing access to the website
in class to read the variety of books online.
Students in the undergraduate teaching program
will have the opportunity to assist you in your
classroom as a writing/reading mentor. (This
however may not occur for all school entries)
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Infants and toddlers not yet at school can be
encouraged to follow the storybooks online to develop
a love of reading and develop early reading skills
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Members of the community who struggle
to make sense of our English language- this group
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can access these stories to develop and expand their
vocabulary etc in the privacy of their own home
To enter this competition, you will need to fill
in a registration form on the website.
This will provide our partner, UWS, a list of schools
participating in the “Read with a Wander” program.
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Students in the Undergraduate program can volunteer to
provide support to your school by providing their time to
work in your classroom to assist students under the teacher
instruction to develop the story and write the storybook.
This task not only provides the undergraduates a real
life experience to the classroom, it will also provide the
teacher an extra set of eyes and ears in the classroom
which is simply priceless. Please note that not all schools
will be able to have this service. UWS will contact you
should they be able to assist you with student support.
Wanderers All Star Literacy Team of
the Year Celebration (11 Total)
The Wanderers would like to congratulate and thank
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Winning student writers for their stories
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University of Western Sydney student mentors
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Teachers who assisted in the task
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Parents of the winning students
All these contributors of the ‘Wanderers All Star
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Literacy Team of the Year’ will be invited to join the
celebration and have some photo opportunities with
the players. The ‘Wanderers Literacy Team of the
Year’ will be presented with a Hard Copy of their book
signed by the player who selected their story to read.
Competition Framework - Rules of Engagement
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This competition is open to all schools
that are an Ambassador school for the Western
Sydney Wanderers (You need to go to the
Wanderers website to join. See link below)
http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/
wswanderersfc/ambassadorprogram
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For 2014 the competition is open
to STAGE 3 and STAGE 4 students
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The students challenge is to create
and write a storybook/picture book that
other students would enjoy reading.
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The storybook, preferably as a narrative,
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needs to appeal to a STAGE 1 and STAGE
2 reader for the 2014 competition
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Compulsory writing for individuals or
groups as part of a school assessment task.
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It is the schools decision how they run the
competition. Each school that enters can have up
to 2 winning stories to represent their school.
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Optional writing for interested
students as a home task
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To ease the implementation of this
competition at school, the links to syllabus outcomes
can be found on page 6 of this document ( see
Appendix: Suggested links to the NSW BOS )
Teachers need to be mindful that the stories are
written by the students for the students.
(As tempting as it will be for some parents)
The schools are free to judge the books using
their own criteria and marking scale.
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A writing project for students in a writers club •
Other
Suggestions for Wanderer Book
selection for each school:
This may include:
1.
Peer to peer judging to select a winner
(anonymous authors at this point to avoid the popular
student winning based on their popularity not writing skills)
Suggestions for Wanderer book
writing competition:
2.
High School to Primary School judging,
which allows engagement between different schools to
select the most appealing stories without any bias
This may include:
3.
Teacher votes
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4.Other
to text on the filmed version for the online library.
Guidelines to enter
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The 2 versions per book will be sent to the
Wanderers competition email address at the close of
business 22nd September 2014. (see book requirements)
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Your school needs to fill in a
registration form online ( with a school contact
person’s name and contact details)
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Each year the competition runs, the
Stages of students writing the book and the
intended Stages of the reading audience may
change, so be aware of these changes.
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This list of schools registered for the
competition will be provided to UWS teaching
staff for the volunteer selection process
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The books must be entered in 2 versions.
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1) A PDF version either scanned into
this format with hand drawn illustrations or
using one of the electronic book tools.
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2) A word document with the text, corresponding
to the page numbers on the PDF version to convert
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Email address : promotions@
wswanderersfc.com.au
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All schools who enter the competition must fill
in the form attached (This form can also be found on the
Wanderers web page). This form gives the Wanderers
and UWS all rights to use the storybook on their website
or in other promotional material as they choose to.
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Signatures allowing wanderers full use
of the storybook must include the parents of
the author (or authors) and the school principal
(or designate) to be eligible to enter.
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Includes photo release
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Books become property of
Western Sydney Wanderers
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Signatures of all relevant parties
BOOK REQUIREMENTS
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The story book must be of appropriate theme
and length to cater for the ability of the intended reader
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There are numerous ‘apps’ available that can
be used for this exercise should you choose to use them.
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The books must be entered in 2
versions as mentioned above...
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1) A PDF version, either scanned into
this format with hand drawn illustrations or
using on e of the electronic book tools.
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2) A word document with the text,
corresponding to the page numbers on the PDF version to
convert to text on the filmed version for the online library.
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3) Send to promotions. Details
http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/
wswanderersfc/readwithawanderer
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Closing message ...get writing and get reading
Good luck to all our schools that choose to take
on the challenge, especially to the students in our
Wanderers Ambassador schools, and also to all
our UWS volunteers who will assist our schools in
developing creative and exciting storybooks.
Together we can make reading fun, and improve
literacy levels in the region and beyond.
We look forward to reading the innovative
stories and selecting our
‘All Stars Literacy Team of the Year’.
Have FUN.......
Tim Thorne
WS Wanderers FC Community Pathway
and Football Development Manager
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Appendix:
Suggested links to the NSW BOS English K¬–10 Syllabus
The study of a wide range of texts is central to the study
of English using the NSW BOS K–10 English Syllabus.
This project supports the objectives of the syllabus by
addressing the general capabilities dealing with critical
and creative thinking, information and communication
technology and encourages the incorporation of the
cross–curriculum priorities. It links with the following
writing and representing outcomes from this Syllabus:
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1. Engagement: Use of a digital text to engage
the viewer with the story and theme
2. Visual Techniques: Composes an imaginative
text experimenting with design layout,
original graphics and techniques
3. Application of genre: Ability to
develop a story structure visually
4. Language: Use of language structures appropriate
to the genre and age group to communicate the story
Stage Three: EN3–2A
5. Theme: Incorporates a contemporary issue through
one of the following cross–curriculum priorities being:
Stage Four: EN4¬–2A, EN4–1A and the
related life skills ENLS–5A, 6A, 7A, 9A
a)Sustainability
In keeping with the NSW BOS English K–10
Syllabus Outcomes, this project will select the
“Wanderers All Star Literacy Team of the Year”
by drawing on five criteria related to the content
descriptors within the syllabus. These criteria are:
b)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Histories and cultures
c)
Asia and Australia’s Engagement with Asia.
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