RCS-KG/A-040/8-2023

29 August 2023

Re: Kidpublish Storytelling Festival and Writing Competition (Kindergarten 1 to Primary 6)

Dear Parents/Guardians,

One way to develop the skills and confidence of our students is to provide them an avenue through
competitions where they get involved and experience learning.

Hence, we would like to invite your child to participate in the Annual Writing Competition and
Storytelling Festival which is organised by Kidpublish.

Below are the details of the competition.

No. Item Story Telling

Category A: Kindergarten 1 & 2
Category B: Grade 1
Participant
1 Category C: Grade 2
Category
Category D: Grade 3
Category E: Grade 4
2 Language English or Bahasa Indonesia

Story from any published printed children’s book (not e-book) that
3 Theme
has a good moral or character value.

Length of time 3 minutes for story telling duration (excluding the

4 Length
personal introduction).
The participant must introduce his/her name, school, and Grade level
at the beginning.

Then the participant must show the physical published story book
(not e- book or some printout) and mention the title of the story
before she/he starts.
Video
5 requirements
The participant does not need to hold the book all the time during the
story telling.

Please do not edit the video, do not animate the video, and do not
put any music on the video.

Save File name as: Category_School Name_First name_Last name

 Record the storytelling video
6 Submission
The school will help to upload the video.
Date of
7 Tuesday, 12 September 2023, by 4:00 PM
Submission
8 Judges Kidpublish
Fee: Rp 200,000 per student
Kindly pay in cash to Ms Golda (RCS KG finance officer) and complete
9 Registration
the link https://forms.gle/YqJTgynwXMAC1aQX8
by 6 September 2023
Each participant will be awarded with a Story Telling medal.

Top Story Tellers of each category will be invited to perform on Story

10 Awards Telling.

Show Case (offline) with separate set of appreciations. Date and

venue to be informed later to the invitees.
11 What to wear School uniform

No. Item Writing Competition

Category A: Grade 3 and 4 English
Category B: Grade 5 and 6 English
Category of
1 Category C: Grade 3 to 6 Bahasa Indonesia
Competition
* Each student may choose only 1 category to join.
Competition
2 Offline
Format
Saturday, October 21, 2023
Competition Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
3
Date (Detailed timing and logistics will be provided to registered
participants)
Competition
4 Binus School - Simprug Jl. Sultan Iskandar Muda Kav G-8 Jakarta
Venue
Fee: Rp.200.000,- per student
Registration Kindly pay in cash to Ms Golda (RCS KG finance officer) and complete
5
Deadline the form https://forms.gle/YqJTgynwXMAC1aQX8 by 20 September
2023
6 Writing Format Narrative
 Grade 3-4 English:
Theme: Fable with any animal(s) that live in Indonesia
(Except orangutan, monkey, komodo, rhino - NOT allowed as
main characters).

Grade 5-6 English:

Theme: The Mystery of Missing “Things”
7 Theme
Grade 3-6 Bahasa Indonesia:
Theme: Fable with any animal(s) that live in Indonesia
(Except orangutan, monkey, komodo, rhino - NOT allowed as
main characters).

All writings have to reflect good moral or character value. All writings
have never been published anywhere, even for in-house school
magazine.
Grade 3-4: minimum 500 words
Grade 5-6: minimum 800 words
BI: minimum 500 words
8 Length of writing
The length of writing (# of words) is just for guidelines. It is acceptable
to go more than suggested range, but not recommended to go below
the minimum.
2 pencils, 1 eraser, and 1 bottle water
9 What to bring Writing papers will be provided
Not allowed to bring any note or any writing draft
Professional Children Book Authors
10 Judges
Kidpublish
All participants will receive a Certificate of Participation. Please ensure
correct names are submitted during registration, as no revision of
certification will be provided.

Finalists will be awarded with “GOOD WRITER” Certificate.

Winners and
11 Top 3 Winners will be awarded with a trophy and a chance for
Awards
publication of their stories.

Each winner will get a free publication opportunity from Kidpublish. If

the work is published, the winner and his/her school will each be given
one free copy of the published book.
 Finalists and their parents must consent that the writing piece will be
published by Kidpublish if it is chosen as one of the winners. If refuse to
have it published, it means giving up the opportunity to compete for
winners.

Kidpublish retains the publication right of the winning stories solely.

The same story is not allowed to be used again for other competition or
submitted for any publication (even in-house for school magazine).
Publication
12 Kidpublish retains the right not to publish the story if the winner fails to
Right
revise and meet the publication standard after winner announcement.

Kidpublish reserves the right to decide whether to publish the winner’s

story as single book or as compilation with other stories.

Winners and their parents will sign separate standard agreement for
publication after winner announcement. It involves grant of publication
right, and selling of the book.
Criteria for Judging

Story telling Writing Competition

Focused, logical, and

Content Knows the story well Content
original central Idea
Insightful Idea
Development with well-
chosen details Solid Story
Listeners are able to fully Elements of character,
Audience understand the story and Text setting, problem and
Engagement engage with the Structure solution has a logical
storyteller. sequence from the
beginning to the end of the
story that engages the
readers
Use of the vocabulary/
Sentences that build and
word choices at the age-
Sentence connect paragraph,
Language level, correct
Structure grammar, punctuation,
pronunciation, right
capitalisation and spelling
sentence use.

Speaks with appropriate

volume for the audience
Appropriate and accurate
Voice to hear.
Vocabulary vocabulary choices for the
Mechanics Uses non-monotonous,
audience and purpose
vocal expression to clarify
the meaning of the text.

Expressively uses non-

Expression verbal communication &
Natural.

Story told at the

Pacing
appropriate pace.

For more information, please contact your child’s English Language teacher or Bahasa Indonesia teacher.

Thank you.

Best regards,

Ms.Goria PSarayan
Teacher-in-charge
Acknowledged by:

Ms Leong Huey Miin / Mr Raden Rintony / Mr Allan Tabien

School Management Committee

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