Comments on: What Adults Need to Know About Eleven Year Olds – Yr 6 Rm 3 http://rosaliewriters.com/what-adults-need-to-know-about-eleven-year-olds-yr-6-rm-3/ Fri, 21 May 2010 06:17:37 +0000 hourly 1 By: Vivienne Glance http://rosaliewriters.com/what-adults-need-to-know-about-eleven-year-olds-yr-6-rm-3/#comment-63 Vivienne Glance Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:57:32 +0000 http://rosaliewriters.com/what-adults-need-to-know-about-eleven-year-olds-yr-6-rm-3/#comment-63 Hi Everyone What a fantastic few days I had at the Rosalie Writers Festival! And thank you so much for giving Afeif and myself the opportunity to be part of it with the Year 3's and Year 6. I loved visiting you, sharing ideas about writing and enjoyed hearing all your suggestions for the short stories we wrote as a class. I also had a wonderful time with the Year 1's at Subiaco Primary School where the creative juices flowed as we came up with class poems. They made me feel very welcome at their school too. It was really great to see your imaginations at work (and your humour! - especially the Year 6's) and we look forward to reading the poems and stories you come up with yourselves. What a wonderful opportunity the Festival is for all you budding readers and writers. Happy imagining and creating! Hi Everyone
What a fantastic few days I had at the Rosalie Writers Festival! And thank you so much for giving Afeif and myself the opportunity to be part of it with the Year 3’s and Year 6. I loved visiting you, sharing ideas about writing and enjoyed hearing all your suggestions for the short stories we wrote as a class.
I also had a wonderful time with the Year 1’s at Subiaco Primary
School where the creative juices flowed as we came up with class poems. They made me feel very welcome at their school too.
It was really great to see your imaginations at work (and your humour! – especially the Year 6’s) and we look forward to reading the poems and stories you come up with yourselves.
What a wonderful opportunity the Festival is for all you budding readers and writers. Happy imagining and creating!

]]> By: rosaliewriters http://rosaliewriters.com/what-adults-need-to-know-about-eleven-year-olds-yr-6-rm-3/#comment-55 rosaliewriters Fri, 23 May 2008 01:03:32 +0000 http://rosaliewriters.com/what-adults-need-to-know-about-eleven-year-olds-yr-6-rm-3/#comment-55 That's fantastic Simon. I hope he does! We'd love to get in touch with him too. We're always interested in keeping up with writers in preparation for the next festival - roll on 2010! That’s fantastic Simon. I hope he does! We’d love to get in touch with him too. We’re always interested in keeping up with writers in preparation for the next festival – roll on 2010!

]]> By: Simon Haynes http://rosaliewriters.com/what-adults-need-to-know-about-eleven-year-olds-yr-6-rm-3/#comment-51 Simon Haynes Thu, 22 May 2008 12:30:35 +0000 http://rosaliewriters.com/what-adults-need-to-know-about-eleven-year-olds-yr-6-rm-3/#comment-51 Funny you should say that, Mike. I had an email today from a published author who was once a Rosalie student, after he saw my blog post about attending the festival. I asked him to drop by this blog and leave a message ;-) Funny you should say that, Mike. I had an email today from a published author who was once a Rosalie student, after he saw my blog post about attending the festival. I asked him to drop by this blog and leave a message ;-)

]]> By: Katrina McGurgan http://rosaliewriters.com/what-adults-need-to-know-about-eleven-year-olds-yr-6-rm-3/#comment-49 Katrina McGurgan Thu, 22 May 2008 10:04:58 +0000 http://rosaliewriters.com/what-adults-need-to-know-about-eleven-year-olds-yr-6-rm-3/#comment-49 Dear Room 3, Reading all your comments about what 11 year olds want has brought back a lot of memories for me. I remember being told what to do and where to go, and not liking it much. Like you, I didn't see why my vote didn't count just because I was younger than everyone else. I don't remember being so cross about adults pushing into lines in front of me - I will definately watch out for 11 year olds in any lines in which I happen to find myself in the future - and if I'm ever rude enough to step in front of you, please feel free to tap me on the shoulder and point out my mistake! Dear Room 3,
Reading all your comments about what 11 year olds want has brought back a lot of memories for me. I remember being told what to do and where to go, and not liking it much. Like you, I didn’t see why my vote didn’t count just because I was younger than everyone else. I don’t remember being so cross about adults pushing into lines in front of me – I will definately watch out for 11 year olds in any lines in which I happen to find myself in the future – and if I’m ever rude enough to step in front of you, please feel free to tap me on the shoulder and point out my mistake!

]]> By: Mike Lasscock http://rosaliewriters.com/what-adults-need-to-know-about-eleven-year-olds-yr-6-rm-3/#comment-48 Mike Lasscock Thu, 22 May 2008 04:25:59 +0000 http://rosaliewriters.com/what-adults-need-to-know-about-eleven-year-olds-yr-6-rm-3/#comment-48 What a wonderful event. I'm sure everyone will be inspired to write about whatever interests them - or draw, or interview. All writers start out in Primary School, that's a fact, so I wonder if any Rosalie students will become famous and they can say - 'I got my start at the Rosalie Writers Festival'. Enjoy it, you are so lucky to have it! What a wonderful event. I’m sure everyone will be inspired to write about whatever interests them – or draw, or interview. All writers start out in Primary School, that’s a fact, so I wonder if any Rosalie students will become famous and they can say – ‘I got my start at the Rosalie Writers Festival’.
Enjoy it, you are so lucky to have it!

]]> By: Norman Jorgensen http://rosaliewriters.com/what-adults-need-to-know-about-eleven-year-olds-yr-6-rm-3/#comment-44 Norman Jorgensen Wed, 21 May 2008 15:10:43 +0000 http://rosaliewriters.com/what-adults-need-to-know-about-eleven-year-olds-yr-6-rm-3/#comment-44 Hey Daniel, who are you kidding? You are not like everyone else. Why would you want to be? Celebrate your difference,keep after your dreams and act as brain damaged as you want to. You know you are not. Believe in yourself and don't worry too much about how other people treat you. They are the ones with the problem. Hey Daniel, who are you kidding? You are not like everyone else. Why would you want to be? Celebrate your difference,keep after your dreams and act as brain damaged as you want to. You know you are not. Believe in yourself and don’t worry too much about how other people treat you. They are the ones with the problem.

]]> By: Norman Jorgensen http://rosaliewriters.com/what-adults-need-to-know-about-eleven-year-olds-yr-6-rm-3/#comment-43 Norman Jorgensen Wed, 21 May 2008 15:03:27 +0000 http://rosaliewriters.com/what-adults-need-to-know-about-eleven-year-olds-yr-6-rm-3/#comment-43 Hey Tristan, I've got news for you and it's all bad. Even middle aged writers of kids' books still endlessly get dragged around shopping centres. I've been moaning about since I was eleven, but no-one, especially my wife, will listen to me. If there are shoe sales at Galleria on then I might as well be as invisible. I sure know what you mean. Now Bunnings? That's a different matter altogether. Hey Tristan,

I’ve got news for you and it’s all bad. Even middle aged writers of kids’ books still endlessly get dragged around shopping centres. I’ve been moaning about since I was eleven, but no-one, especially my wife, will listen to me. If there are shoe sales at Galleria on then I might as well be as invisible. I sure know what you mean.

Now Bunnings? That’s a different matter altogether.

]]> By: Simon Haynes http://rosaliewriters.com/what-adults-need-to-know-about-eleven-year-olds-yr-6-rm-3/#comment-38 Simon Haynes Wed, 21 May 2008 09:01:06 +0000 http://rosaliewriters.com/what-adults-need-to-know-about-eleven-year-olds-yr-6-rm-3/#comment-38 I remember being 11 like it was yesterday, and sympathise with many of the posts above. As an eleven-year-old I was forced to go to bed at 7pm, even though the sun was shining outside. Now I let my own kids stay up until 10pm, although the youngest (10 years old) usually goes to bed at 9pm. The oldest is 13, and is usually still awake at 11. When I was 11 I was left at home some nights with my 8-year-old brother while my parents went out. (Not often - and they obviously thought I was responsible enough.) When I was 11 I used to go camping with a friend, raiding my mum's kitchen for tinned food and my dad's garage for the tent & cooking gear. We lived in a small village where everyone knew everyone else, though, and in a city like Perth different rules apply. I remember being 11 like it was yesterday, and sympathise with many of the posts above.

As an eleven-year-old I was forced to go to bed at 7pm, even though the sun was shining outside. Now I let my own kids stay up until 10pm, although the youngest (10 years old) usually goes to bed at 9pm. The oldest is 13, and is usually still awake at 11.

When I was 11 I was left at home some nights with my 8-year-old brother while my parents went out. (Not often – and they obviously thought I was responsible enough.)

When I was 11 I used to go camping with a friend, raiding my mum’s kitchen for tinned food and my dad’s garage for the tent & cooking gear. We lived in a small village where everyone knew everyone else, though, and in a city like Perth different rules apply.

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