February 10
CARPET COURT LAUNCHES STORYBOOK CHALLENGE FOR SCHOOLS
Creative Net is pleased to announce a great new initiative it is supporting, launched by Carpet Court this month. Carpet Court’s Storybook Challenge is an inspiring new competition being run across participating stores to encourage more shared reading in classrooms across Australia and provide schools with fun educational tools. Creative Net is assisting by providing local authors to visit participating schools.
The Carpet Court Storybook Challenge is open now and giving primary schools located near participating Carpet Court stores the chance to win $1,000 in books and colourful reading mats for their classroom as well as individual book prizes.
Carpet Court’s National Marketing Manager, Natasha Gallardo, said the aim of launching the Storybook Challenge and partnering with CCN was to encourage children to get excited about reading and writing and develop wider learning and literacy skills.
“Encouraging a love of reading at a young age can dramatically improve a child’s confidence and ability to excel later in life. We hope that by providing sponsorship and support, we might make a difference to the next generation of Australians,” she said
From 1 February to 30 March the Carpet Court Storybook Challenge will be open to children from grades one to four at eligible schools in Victoria, WA, SA and Tasmania. Other states will get their chance to shine in terms two and three.
To enter, students must describe what they love most about their local community and provide an illustration. Kids can pick up an entry form for the Storybook Challenge from their local participating primary school, download one from www.facebook.com/CarpetCourt or email
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Eligible entries will be displayed on www.facebook.com/CarpetCourt where you can vote for your favourite to help pick the top five finalists for each state region.
Finalists will be judged by a panel at Carpet Court, including a successful children’s author, with winners for each participating store announced in April.
The Storybook Challenge is part of a wider community initiative called the Carpet Court Learning Network aimed at fostering literacy skills amongs Australia’s youth. Under this initiative, 2012 will see Carpet Court sponsor the Children’s Charity Network in support of their Young Australian Writing & Art Awards and book giving program Carpet Court Book Drop for Kids, while also running the Carpet Court Storybook Challenge and Carpet Court Flooring Grants program.
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Creative Net supplied speakers for the ACLB's Keeping Books Alive conference held on Saturday 26 November at the RACV Club in Melbourne. Speakers were: Michael Salmon, Jackie Kerin, Phil Kettle, Susan Halliday, Gabrielle Wang, Dianne Bates, Susanne Gervay, Paul Collins, Meredith Costain, Michael Hyde, Tony Thompson and Michael Panckridge. Feedback was brilliant. The following email arrived today:
"Thank you so much for the wonderful day and night at the seminar. I was so impressed with the standard of the seminar and thought that those who did not attend certainly missed out of a first class day and night. I travelled from Rainbow which is a 10 hour return trip but not once did I think why have I come today? I have attended many [name withheld] conferences in Melbourne but this was so much better. An intimate setting and a chance to speak with the authors was greatly appreciated.
"The after conference story-teller [Jackie Kerin] was brilliant and the dinner was very interesting. I now have gained knowledge re what the dinner & awards were all about and will encourage students to enter the various sections. I do hope you will run this seminar again next year and look forward to coming once again" Leonie Clarke [Rainbow Secondary College].
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Ford Street and Creative Net have organised three very successful literary events at Scotch College, Yarra Valley Grammar and Catholic College Bendigo in Victoria. We had a total of 35 authors, illustrators and poets at these events.
Contact us direct at
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if you would like us to organise a literary event in Victoria at your school or library during 2012. Remember, Creative Net doesn’t charge for organising presenters.
