Last Friday, eleven Yr.10 boys were involved in the annual Write a Book in a Day competition, involving groups from all Years in our Resource Centre. Xavier Leaver, Otto Chaplin, Tom Bovell, Charlie Rowley, Jackson Basha, Tom Madden, Ethan Quintana, Jimmy Rylands, Darcy Rogers, James Frederikson and Daniel Chenu represented Yr.10.

Following is an account of the day from Xavier Leaver:

“Write a book in a day began at 8 in the morning with all the boys gathered around the tables in the library separated into their different year groups. Ms Roden told us that she would be running the day and began to tell us about what it is we were going to be doing. Unsurprisingly, we were writing a book in a day. However, there was a bit more to it than that. The whole day was about raising money for cancer research which all of us boys saw as a really important cause. The book we were writing would be for sick children in hospital. This encouraged us to really get into it and give it our best shot. Our story couldn’t just be about anything though, there were set parameters for the story to follow. Ours were that the story must have a fairy, a plumber and an athlete; it also had to be set in a shopping center and be about making a new friend. From this, through much planning and re-planning, my group decided to make the story about a robbery. I think that Write a Book in a Day was a great experience for all of us boys involved, not only because it developed our writing skills but also because it was for such an important cause”.