Tag: Children’s Word of the Year
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The Lighter Side of the Oxford Children’s Word of the Year
Primary school students wrote about some serious topics in the 2018 Oxford Australian Children’s Word of the Year writing competition, from bullying to depression, fear and loneliness. However, there was also a lighter side to many of the stories. In the competition, students from Foundation to Grade 6 were asked to nominate and write about…
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The Oxford Australian Children’s Word of the Year is Creativity
‘Creativity’ has been named the 2018 Australian Children’s Word of the Year. Bravery, pollution, technology and environment were all strong contenders for the 2018 Oxford Australian Children’s Word of the Year but it was creativity that was today named this year’s winner. More than 500 entries were submitted by primary school and home-schooled children across…
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The Spookier Side of the Oxford Australian Children’s Word of the Year
Children have vivid imaginations, and this was nowhere more apparent than in the Oxford Children’s Word of the Year writing competition. Students from primary schools across Australia were invited to submit a piece of writing about a topic of their choice. While there were fairies and unicorns, there was also a darker side to the…
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What is going to be the Oxford Australian Children’s Word of the Year?
We have been enjoying reading through the entries for the 2018 Children’s Word of the Year writing competition, which closed this week. Hundreds of entries from primary schools across Australia, representing all year levels, have made their way into the Oxford University Press office. This year, a significant number of home-schooled students have also taken…
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What are Australian children talking about in 2018?
Are primary school aged children interested in technology or treehouses? Are they concerned about the contents of their lunch box or the nightly news report? Oxford University Press is on the hunt to discover what interests Australian primary school students with the launch of the 2018 Children’s Word of the Year. Primary school students from…
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‘Equality’ named the Oxford Children’s Word of the Year
After countless hours reviewing hundreds of entries, Oxford University Press Australia and New Zealand has announced its 2017 Children’s Word of the Year: equality. The word is a result of an Australia-wide writing competition in which students from Grade Prep to Grade 6 submitted a piece of free writing up to 500 words based on…
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Primary students show age is no barrier to creativity
There was a stubborn dog and a deadly beast, a new student in the class and a sleepy language-lover – the entries in the 2016 Wordlist Writing Competition for primary school students showed some wonderful creativity and originality. In the lead up to National Literacy and Numeracy Week between September 4 and 10, we’re looking…
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Help us find the Australian Children’s Word of the Year!
Do your students talk Trump or Turnbull, fidget spinners or footy cards? Oxford University Press want to learn more about the way children communicate, and to help us do this we are launching the Children’s Word of the Year free writing competition. Primary school-aged children are invited to nominate their ‘Word of the Year’ and…