Victorian Voices is a short story competition for 7-11 year olds run by Archive Awareness Campaign this winter.
Your school could win books and Adobe software while Key Stage 2 children (P4-P7 in Scotland and equivalent in Republic of Ireland) can get their hands on bags of Usborne titles and the chance to spend a day with a design expert creating the perfect cover for their story.
From September 2005 you will be able to download a resource pack from www.victorianvoices.com containing 100 Victorian documents - school logbooks, workhouse records, apprentice records, migration registers, maps, photos and much more to help inspire your class to write. We’ll also help you teach the short story writing by giving you lesson plans (for literacy) and hints on using the resources in history, art, environmental studies, ICT and citizenship. There will be details of Victorian events near you, and of course, we’ll tell you how to enter your pupils in Victorian Voices (the closing date for entries will be mid-December).
To register interest in the competition now go to www.victorianvoices.com and we will let you know when the resource pack is ready to download.
To find out more about Archive Awareness Campaign go to www.archiveawareness.com