{"id":6206,"date":"2016-06-24T09:35:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T08:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=6206"},"modified":"2017-06-15T10:32:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T09:32:24","slug":"childrens-script-writing-competition-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/06\/24\/childrens-script-writing-competition-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Children\u2019s script writing competition winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce the winner of the children\u2019s script writing competition organised by Professor Ray Laurence from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/index.html\">Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies<\/a>. Kien Powell from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stowe.co.uk\/\">Stowe School<\/a> in Buckingham won the first prize of a \u00a3200 book token for his script entitled \u2018Day in the Life of a Roman Client.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The competition invited students aged 11-18 to write a script focussing on a day-in-the-life of an individual living in Rome. It was an exciting way for students to use their knowledge about Rome and its people to develop their own stories and helped with their revision.<\/p>\n<p>The judges commented \u2018Kien\u2019s script was a bit more original and interesting, looking at life from the perspective of a Roman client. There is some detail in there about Roman life, walking through the market, bathing, and dining and he cites a clear reference to a literary source &#8211; Juvenal. There is a good amount of Latin in there with accompanying explanation. Well written and concise.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>65 scripts were entered into the competition from a range of schools and it is hoped the winning script may be turned into an animated film similar to those on <a href=\"http:\/\/ed.ted.com\/lessons\/four-sisters-in-ancient-rome-ray-laurence\">TED.Ed<\/a>. The 2<sup>nd<\/sup> prize of a \u00a3100 book token went to Helena Golling, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stedmunds.org.uk\/about-us\/\">St Edmund\u2019s School<\/a>, Canterbury for \u2018Life Could Be Tough in Ancient Rome\u2019 and the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> prize of three \u00a320 book tokens went to Tahirah Hussain, Imah Begum Kadir and Sadia Wahid \u2013 year 8 students studying Latin at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spwt.net\/\">St Paul\u2019s Way Trust School<\/a>, London for \u2018Salvius vs Bregens\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Ray Laurence commented \u2018We were overwhelmed by the number and quality of entries for the competition. The judges were faced with a difficult decision because there was so much quality in the entries, from the detailed observation to others that incorporated excitement and fun.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The competition will run again next year and full details will be available in the Autumn on the Lucius\u2019 Romans blog at <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/lucius-romans\/animation-script-writing-competition-for-uk-schools-and-colleges-years-7-to-13\/\">https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/lucius-romans<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce the winner of the children\u2019s script writing competition organised by Professor Ray Laurence from the Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/06\/24\/childrens-script-writing-competition-winner\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":6209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18564,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6206"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7505,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6206\/revisions\/7505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}