First of all, it’s only my first semester being a member of The Advocate and I was not at all aware that the Advocate held two competitions a year. So when I first walked to Ms DeJong’s classroom on Friday, I was more than surprised of all the planning that was going on. However, once I was done being surprised we got to planning for our next competition.

With successfully completing the publication of ‘The Advocate’ for last semester, we have already started advertising for the next competition. Last semester, we tried out different methods to advertise. We put fliers in every locker in the school, which actually took us two lunch hours to complete, hoping this would grab their attention. But I guess we were accepting too much because most of the people completely ignored it. So this semester we’ve actually put to use a couple of new methods. The members of the Advocate have been taking turns to give out fliers during lunch during the past week. And we have also designed some posters using pun jokes to go in the daily-bulletin. We decided to change the poster daily so that the novelty catches the eye.

Posters designed for the daily-bulletin.

Posters designed for the daily-bulletin.

Moreover, we have also taken steps to send emails to all the students informing them about the submissions for the Advocate. Apart from that, you will also find many posters displayed around the school.

This year we opened up the category of artwork to our usual list of poetry, prose and photography. So over the past few weeks, we have been getting many submissions in various forms. We have set the closing date for the 13th of March and hope to receive by 30+ submissions by the date. I believe that with the new methods of advertising we’ve adopted this semester’s competition would be more successful.

Learning Outcomes

• Identify own strengths and develop areas for growth.
• Demonstrate that challenges have been undertaken, developing new skills in the process.
• Recognize and consider the ethics of choices and actions