SACEE 100-WORD SHORT STORY WRITING COMPETITION:

Our school was awarded 7 gold and 8 silver awards, being the school with the most awards! Fifty one Gr 7 awards were given nationally, and we got 13 of those! We are very proud of the following award winners:

Gold Grade 7: Husna Gouse, Emma Morton-Allais, Cara Moore,

Grace Moyo, Maleehah Patel (2), Sinaye Shabalala

Silver Grade 7: Vincent Burkhalter, Husna Gouse (3), Bin-Yameen Hadjee,

Vuyokazi Nosenga, Maleeha Patel, Yatish Ramjathan

Poetry: Bronze: Maseeha Khan and Isabelle Sculliongh

Special mention: Rebecca Klaaren

Monologue: Silver award: Husna Gouse, (3rd prize) ;   Bronze award: Lusanda Nazo,

From the Committee:

“Thank you for sending in 16 entries to the SACEE competition. We had a tremendous response this year – over 300 entries in all.

Husna Gouse wrote a very graphic description of a race, told almost stride by stride; we feel the exhaustion, the impossibility of taking another step, the help when one is at the last gasp. Very powerful writing.

In the Junior Poetry section, Isabelle Scullion wrote about sitting in a hospital waiting room until the doctor comes with the results of a dangerous operation.

We feel the fear, the tedium, the unbearableness of an experience that has to be borne, looking at the same row of white chairs, hour after hour.

Maseeha Khan wrote about the awfulness of the scrutiny and judgement in the eyes of others. The repetition of …these eyes, these eyes… emphasised the vulnerability of the speaker; an almost physical sensation of crawling insects.

Lusanda Nazo sent in a monologue with a hiking background. It’s a situation full of peril because the speaker has no confidence in her own survival and her hands are beginning to slip on the wet rock….

Although it didn’t win an award, I want to mention Rebecca Klaaren’s poem A.B.C.Death: A clever alphabetic list of disaster in many forms.

Considering that all these entries are from Grade 7 learners, the standard at Parkview Senior is extremely high.”

Congratulations are definitely in order for Ms. Corrigan, their English teacher!