Information for Teachers
2010 COBIS Student Poetry Competition
The COBIS Student Poetry Competition is open to students of any nationality in full-time education at a COBIS Member or Affiliate school.
Length and Theme
COBIS invites submission of poems of up to 40 lines on the topic of Home.
Categories
Entries will be considered in three categories, based on the age of the student on 1 January 2010.
Category A: 10 yrs and under
Category B: 11-14 yrs
Category C: 15-19 yrs
Judges
Entries will be judged by a panel of educators, writers, and publishers.
Prizes
Prizes will be sponsored by:
Galore Park Publishing (www.galorepark.co.uk)
Red House International School Book Club (www2.scholastic.co.uk/isbc)
TTS Group Ltd (www.tts-group.co.uk)
Winning entries will be published on the COBIS website and in the COBIS Annual Conference programme.
Deadline
All entries must be received no later than Friday 5 March, 2010.
Entry Requirements
All entries should be submitted by the head teacher, head of department, or class teacher to:
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Each entry should be submitted as a pdf or Word document and should include:
- the student’s full name
- the student’s nationality
- the student’s date of birth
- the name of the school
- the name and email address of the member of staff submitting the poem
All entries must be original compositions and entirely the work of the student.
Each school may submit a maximum of three entries per category.
All entries must be in English.
