22nd January 2025
Spark student creativity this spring
Hello everyone,
Let’s get things done!
With exams approaching for many students, the Spring Term is all about priorities and achievement. We know that extracurricular activities, sports and evening clubs get squeezed in the face of important learning. All the same, it’s widely accepted that accomplishing creative projects is a way for students to find balance away from their academic studies.
We’d like to encourage those initiatives – like a podcast club, or group creating topic-based journalism. Our Shine Awards for outstanding writing are given for students with an ambition to tell stories about their lived experiences or issues affecting the world – as they see it.
A group project could be created in an after school club – such as collected writing on a single topic, designed in free software like Canva. This is immediately eligible for our awards and the big news this week is that we’ve just launched our 2025 entry form. Your students only need to be eligible in ONE CATEGORY. Just one. Which would certainly make filling out the form a doddle…
So if your students have hit the ground running this Spring Term, why not harness that momentum with some cracking extracurricular energy?
If you’ve got questions or need more support, we’re here to answer your questions at shine@stationers.org
Register with the Shine School Media Awards and we can provide guidance and encouragement from now til our entry deadline in May.
Best wishes,
Richard Chapman
Chair, Shine School Media Awards