A Year 9 pupil at Farlington School has won the regional heat of a writing competition organised by the Rotary Club of Great Britain and Ireland. Katie Maguire, 14, was delighted to learn that her entry will now be going forward to the national final of the Young Writers Competition which was run this year for the first time.
Contestants were asked to write 500 words on the theme of Community Spirit and several local schools – Cranleigh, Millais, Tanbridge, St. Philip Howard, Burnham – took part . On Monday 23 May Mr Gordon McConnell presented Katie with a book token and her award for winning the intermediate level. Katie, a keen writer in her own time, hopes to write professionally one day, and this is a promising start to her career.
Katie’s English teacher, Jane Lewis, said, ‘We are thrilled at Katie’s success. It is encouraging to see that, despite the onslaught of technological communication, young people are still interested in writing creatively.’
Results of the final of the competition, in which entries
