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Exciting new competition offers free resources featuring WWE® stars
11 Sep 2012
Your pupils could take on the role of an up-and-coming sports entertainment manager and improve their writing skills with a new competition from the National Literacy Trust and WWE®.
We have teamed up with the family entertainment brand for the 8th year to boost Key Stage 2 and 3 pupils’ literacy with the new ‘Road to WrestleMania’ competition. Launching this September the initiative aims to get pupils writing, with a selection of creative tasks and WWE® themed resources.
A number of literacy tasks must be completed to transform each pupil’s client into a top class WWE® Superstar or Diva. From creating a character to writing a storyline for the show, the tasks draw on writing skills with additional reading and performance to capture the pupil’s imagination. Each school that registers will receive a classroom poster, downloadable certificates for each pupil (signed by a WWE® Superstar or Diva) who completes all the tasks, a downloadable Managers Log Book for pupils to complete their tasks in and exciting film clips introducing each task.
Pupils that complete five tasks will be in with a chance of winning a night as a “Guest Manager” at a WWE® UK live event during the WrestleMania Revenge tour in April 2013, WWE® merchandise and a book token worth £50. Three runners-up will also receive WWE® merchandise.
The competition is in light of research from the National Literacy Trust which found that a quarter of children and young people rarely or never write outside of class and one in seven (14%) would be embarrassed for their friends to see them write.*
Susie Musgrove, Project Manager at the National Literacy Trust said:
The Road to WrestleMania is a great way to engage and motivate reluctant readers and writers. The tasks provide an excellent opportunity for pupils to practise skills associated with lots of different types of text. The competition is designed to be suitable for either classroom, or homework activity, a fun project for a lunch time or after-school club, a tutor time activity or a library-based challenge. We hope all school librarians and teachers will step into the ring and register for the competition.
For further information please contact Jane Woodley, Media and Public Affairs Officer on jane.woodley@literacytrust.org.uk or 020 7820 6256.
Notes to Editors
* C. Clark: Literacy in 2012. National Literacy Trust, April 2012
