{"id":3857,"date":"2024-01-16T04:52:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T04:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/?post_type=article&#038;p=3857"},"modified":"2024-01-16T04:52:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T04:52:12","slug":"an-absolute-gem-of-a-story","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/article\/an-absolute-gem-of-a-story\/","title":{"rendered":"An Absolute Gem of a Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Year 2 student <strong>Gem<\/strong>\u00a0for her prize-winning entry in the 2023 Braille Writing competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gem\u2019s story,\u00a0<em>The Extremely Annoying Bear<\/em>\u00a0was one of 44 entries received this year.<\/p>\n<p>Prizes are awarded for tactile graphics, proof reading, creativity, and accuracy of braille.<\/p>\n<p>The competition is held by the Sydney Braille Forum for school students in New South Wales who are learning to read and write braille.<\/p>\n<p>Braille is a tactile writing system used by people who are blind or vision impaired. It consists of raised dots arranged in a grid, with different dot patterns representing letters, numbers, punctuation marks, symbols and music notation. Users read braille with their fingers.<\/p>\n<p>The speaker at this year\u2019s award night was R A Spratt, TV writer, podcast host, and author of the popular Friday Barnes, Peski Kids and Nanny Piggins series. R A Spratt delivered an entertaining speech about her experiences as an author before presenting the prizes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gem\u2019s submission was awarded the Creativity of Story Award in the Junior Primary section.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8211;<\/strong><\/em><em><strong> Jacqui Don<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>n<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>elly<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nLearning Enrichment Teacher \u2013 Visual Impairment Specialist<\/p>\n<p><em>Gem is pictured below accepting her prize with R A Spratt<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3858\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2024\/01\/89C0FA1B-AA0A-47CB-B288-8FA3B1EEB16E_1_201_a-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2024\/01\/89C0FA1B-AA0A-47CB-B288-8FA3B1EEB16E_1_201_a-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2024\/01\/89C0FA1B-AA0A-47CB-B288-8FA3B1EEB16E_1_201_a-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/51\/2024\/01\/89C0FA1B-AA0A-47CB-B288-8FA3B1EEB16E_1_201_a-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Year 2 student Gem\u00a0for her prize-winning entry in the 2023 Braille Writing competition.\u00a0 Gem\u2019s story,\u00a0The Extremely Annoying Bear\u00a0was one of 44 entries received this year. Prizes are awarded for tactile graphics, proof reading, creativity, and accuracy of braille. The competition is held by the Sydney Braille Forum for school students in New South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[7],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-3857","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/3857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=3857"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc-futuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=3857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}