A fantastic national storytelling competition
One of your pupils could win the chance to have their story produced as a limited edition book and audio podcast!

To celebrate the new adaptation of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five stories on Disney Channel, the National Schools Partnership are happy to bring you a great literacy and creative writing competition, aimed at encouraging Key Stage 2 pupils to read the original Famous Five books and tap into their own creativity.

To help your pupils, we have created a special competition entry form to help them structure their story into a beginning, middle and end and the reason why this is so important.

What do your pupils need to do?

Your young would-be novelists are invited to write up their idea for the plotline of a Famous 5: On the Case book using the entry sheet below Entries will be judged on their creativity, originality and success in capturing the spirit of adventure, mystery and the friendship epitomised by Famous Five old and new. The panel will include Cressida Cowell, author of the bestselling and award-winning Hiccup the Viking books and Jon Lee, former S Club 7 star and the voice of Max in Famous 5: On The Case.

There are two categories and a specific form for each:

• One for pupils nine and under, whose story should be between 150-300 words.
• One for pupils nine to eleven, whose story should be between 300-600 words.

What will they win? The two winning entries will be brought to life by a ghost writer and the story will be created into a limited edition book with a specially designed cover The two category winners will have the opportunity to attend the studio for the recording of the winning story and voice one of the characters The finished audio recording will be presented to the winner and their school  The final audio recording will also be available on Disney Channel's website for kids across the UK to download

As well as being fun for your pupils, the competition fits in with the following curriculum requirements:

Literacy PSHE Citizenship

How to enter

You'll find the competition entry sheet below. All you need to do is double click on the icon, download it, print it off and get your pupils to write their literary masterpieces.

Click here to download the competition forms:

Under 9: 150 – 300 words (A4) Under 9: 150 – 300 words (A3)

Ages 9-11 300-600 words (A4) Ages 9-11 300-600 words (A3)

For general information and terms and conditions, click here:

Please send your pupils entries to: Famous 5 'On the Case' Writing Competition, 338 Euston Road, London, NW1 3BH

The deadline for entries is 31st July 2008.


Good luck!
Kind regards,

Louise Weisbloom
0208 875 5497