{"id":2080,"date":"2012-08-30T08:49:23","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T08:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2012-08-30T08:49:23","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T08:49:23","slug":"edinburghs-green-pencil-award-in-search-for-young-creative-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/2012\/08\/30\/edinburghs-green-pencil-award-in-search-for-young-creative-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh&#8217;s Green Pencil Award in search for young creative writers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A creative writing competition for Edinburgh children has been launched at the Hermitage of Braid with pupils from Pentland Primary School (Wednesday 29 August).<\/p>\n<p>The theme of this year&#8217;s &#8216;Green Pencil Award&#8217;, which is run by The City of Edinburgh Council for children in the P4 &#8211; P7 age range, is &#8216;Birds &amp; Beasties&#8217;, encouraging entrants to write about\u00a0wildlife they\u00a0encounter\u00a0in their garden, local park etc.\u00a0 The competition, run by Edinburgh City Libraries and Eco-Schools in Edinburgh seeks to: promote literacy and creative writing; demonstrate care and understanding of environmental issues; encourage learning; link to Curriculum for Excellence aspirations and strengthen partnership working between libraries, schools and other partners.<\/p>\n<p>Participation is invited through local libraries, schools and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edinburgh.gov.uk\/greenpencilaward\">Council website<\/a> with a closing date of Friday 12 October.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edinburgh.gov.uk\/news\/article\/982\/green_pencil_award_branches_out_in_search_for_writers\"><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.edinburgh.gov.uk\/news\/article\/982\/green_pencil_award_branches_out_in_search_for_writers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A creative writing competition for Edinburgh children has been launched at the Hermitage of Braid with pupils from Pentland Primary School (Wednesday 29 August). The theme of this year&#8217;s &#8216;Green Pencil Award&#8217;, which is run by The City of Edinburgh Council for children in the P4 &#8211; P7 age range, is &#8216;Birds &amp; Beasties&#8217;, encouraging &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/2012\/08\/30\/edinburghs-green-pencil-award-in-search-for-young-creative-writers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Edinburgh&#8217;s Green Pencil Award in search for young creative writers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1272,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1030],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-languages-and-literacy-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2081,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions\/2081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/CreativityPortalAdmin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}