Aims and Outcomes

What's your story? aims to:

• Support teachers in encouraging students to develop skills in and a love of storytelling
• Utilise the experience, skills and enthusiasm for writing of published Australian authors to show students that writing can be fun and rewarding
• Improve the writing skills of primary school students
• Balance the teaching of the technical skills associated with writing by giving students a reason to write and an audience to write for
• Counter the emphasis on sport by recognising and rewarding literary talent.

Outcomes to include: 

• Improvement of literacy levels in schools - an issue which is a political and community priority.
• Support for the work of schools in an area in which many teachers are not confident and/or skilled.
• Development and mentoring of the creative talents of the next generation of Australian writers.
• Promotion of Australian children’s literature and authors through their participation in this program.