The National Handwriting Competition 2017
SATIPS and the Cambridge University Press have again joined forces this year to run
the competition and are hoping for the biggest and best year ever. This is an annual
event run by St Bernard’s Prep for its pupils. Individual entries will not be accepted.
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Children must copy out the poem for their relevant ‘Class’ (see below).
The class refers to the child’s age on the day that they complete their best
entry.
The poems sent must be written on A4 paper.
The paper can have feint lines, which must not detract from the
handwriting; paper can be portrait or landscape. Do not use punch-holed
file paper
Class A and B entrants (8 years and under) may use a pencil.
Classes C and D must be written in ink.
Class A (6 years and under)
Class B (7 – 8 years)
Class C (9 – 10 years)
Class D (11 – 13 years)
I Miss My Sister
One, Two, Three
Trick or Treat
Entrants for this class can either write out their
own choice of a poem or write out the poem
for Class C
Summary of the key rules set by SATIPS/CUPress
1. Children MUST NOT write the DATE, ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION OR THE
SCHOOL NAME anywhere on the FRONT of the entry as these entries will be
DISQUALIFIED, and they could have been a winner as happened again in
2016.
2. DO NOT underline the title – it may obscure the letters on the first line
below.
3. The entries MUST be spell-checked by a teacher before submission; errors
will result in the DISQUALIFICATION of the written work.
4. Children’s first and surname, age at time of writing and school postcode
ONLY (SL1 1TB) MUST be written on the BACK of each entry. Pencil is
advisable as ink entries often show through to the work on the front.
5. Entries’ deadline to school is 3rd March in order to allow checking and
administration.
The competition closing date is 10th March.
For full terms and conditions, please go to: http://handwritingcompetition.co.uk/takepart/poem-selection/
CLASS A – 6 years and under
CLASS B – 7-8 years
I Miss My Sister
One, Two, Three
I miss my sister all the time.
For her it's not the same.
She never misses me at all.
She has a better aim.
One, two, three,
Daddy caught a flea.
Put it in a teapot
To make a cup of tea.
Kenn Nesbitt
The flea jumped out,
Mummy gave a shout,
And in came Billy
With his shirt hanging out.
CLASS C – 9-10 years
Traditional poem
Trick or Treat
Haunted houses,
Curdling screams,
Freezing bats, torn at the seams!
Full white moon,
Dripping candles,
Roaming forgetful zombie vandals!
Gnarled old trees,
Tossed in the breeze.
Cold ghosts shivering, knocking their
knees!
Trick and treating,
From door to door,
Not enough sweets, I must have more!!!
CLASS D – 11-13 years
Entrants for this class can write out their
own choice of a poem or write out the
poem for Class C.
If children choose their own poem, please
advise them that it should fit on one side
of a piece of A4, which can be portrait or
landscape. The lines should also not be
too long (nor too short!).
Gareth Lancaster
© Kenn Nesbitt http://www.poetry4kids.com/
Gareth Lancaster
http://www.fizzyfunnyfuzzy.com/
http://handwritingcompetition.co.uk/takepart/412-2/