...in the 2008 Schools RE Project run by the Association of Catholic Women get a Compendium of the Catholic Catechism, top prizewinners get a cash prize their schools, plus various books...cycling back today after another session of packing and posting at the Catholic Truth Society I suddenly worried that schools might get sniffy and say that the Compendium is too dull and formal a prize for a child. Of course the whole point is that it's meant to be a prize to keep and use throughout life, and also something that makes a formal statement about the Faith and its significance...what do Blog readers think?
Enjoyable correspondence about Mondegreens in the Daily Telegraph.
What is a Mondegreen? Go to the link to get the background re the name etc. One example is the monk in the middle of the Hail Mary "Blessed art thou a monk swimming..."
4 comments:
I don't think there's an ideal prize. It's got to be cheap, it's got to be something a child would appreciate, ideally it should be something they will keep into adult life as a momento of the competition, it should have a religious connection.
Maybe you could try to get them signed by someone famous. Like Tony Blair, if your connections stretch that far.
PS can you give us a debrief on the entries?
How about the Compendium (long-term, long-lasting prize) and an ice cream certificate (immediate gratification?) :-)
Margaret
Yes, Margaret is right. They need at least a bar of chocolate to make the Compendium palatable. Otherwise it will be lost and forgotten, or else hang about getting dusty, like the majority of boring school prizes.
Yeahbut - the helf-n-safety/ nutrition police would be down on ACW like a ton of bricks for encouraging children to equate sweet stuff with rewards.
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