The Great Detective Sherlock Holmes: Reader's Theatre Competition

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Details

Organisers

Hong Kong Education City, Rightman Publishing Ltd.

Co-organisers

Chief Executive’s Award for Teaching Excellence Teachers’ Association, Kwuntong Theatre

Objectives

  • To encourage online and offline reading and sharing
  • To enhance ability of comprehension, adaptation and presentation
  • To help students develop oral presentation skills
  • To facilitate social and emotional learning
  • To cultivate parent-child or family relationship

Target

Student Group: P1-6 students in Hong Kong (each student participates as an individual)
Family Group: P1-6 students in Hong Kong with their family members (each enrolled student participates with family members as an individual, the enrolled student must be the main performer in the video)

Format

Create a video to demonstrate a chapter selected from volume 1-58 of ‘The Great Detective Sherlock Holmes’ written by Mr Lai Ho. The original intent of the story should be preserved, while the content can be adapted or trimmed.

  • The video can be recorded in horizontal orientation with mobile phone or other video recording equipment. It should be 5-10 minutes in length and presented in Cantonese or Putonghua.
  • File Format: AVI、MP4, MPEG, MPG, MOV or WMV (size less than 1GB)
  • Performance Forms
    • Read aloud or use dialogue to play the selected scene.
    • Adaptation of the original or simple stage performance will be accepted, if necessary.
    • Video editing of the performance is not allowed.
  • Participants can join both Student and Family Groups and each participant can only submit one work in each group. (Only the participants in Student Group will be counted in the school participation rate.)
  • The enrolled students in Family Group must be the main performers in the video.

Judges

Hong Kong Education City: Ms Hung Yuen Ling
Rightman Publishing Ltd.: Mr Lai Ho
Chief Executive’s Award for Teaching Excellence Teachers’ Association: Ms Cheng Lai Kuen, Vice-principal, F.D.B.W.A. Chow Chin Yau School
Kwuntong Theatre: Mr Sidney Lui
Animated Film Director: Mr Yuen Kin To

 

Schedule

This event has ended in November 2022.

Competition Guidelines

  1. All entries must be original and not be published in other occasions before. By submitting an entry, the participant warrants that the entry neither contains any third party copyrighted materials nor infringes any intellectual property rights of any third parties. Participants should also be aware that the content does not include obscene, violence, religious, political or other inappropriate content. Violation will be disqualified without prior notice.
  2. Submission of any entry indicates that the participant has read and accepted the guidelines and rules of the competition.
  3. Participants retain copyright over their works, while agreeing the organisers to display and publish their works to allow others to freely access, use, and share the works, with an acknowledgement of the work’s authorship and its initial presentation.
  4. The organisers reserve the right to decide the final results and awards.
  5. The competition details announced on this website shall prevail.
  6. The organisers reserve the right to amend, extend and interpret the competition guidelines and rules without prior notice. In case of any dispute, the organisers reserve the right of final decision.

Awards

Results

‘The Best Participation School Award’
AwardSchool
Winner匡智翠林晨崗學校
1st Runner-up香港耀能協會羅怡基紀念學校
2nd Runner-up沙頭角中心小學
‘The Best Performance Award’ for Student Group
AwardSchoolStudent
Winner將軍澳天主教小學孫子喬
1st Runner-up聖公會仁立紀念小學陳晞旼
2nd Runner-up太古小學謝振鋒
Merits香港培正小學楊曉悦
中西區聖安多尼學校李智善
滬江小學李栢熹
寶血會思源學校鄒卓堯
保良局田家炳小學楊淽蕎
Special Jury Award香港耀能協會羅怡基紀念學校許慶軒
‘The Best Performance Award’ for Family Group
AwardStudent
Winner黃心祈
1st Runner-up鄧穎恩
古日信
MeritsSo Hoi Shun
Chan Yau Shun

References

Mr Lai Ho (Author of 'The Great Detective Sherlock Holmes')'s Demonstration

Mr Johnny Shiu (Playwright, Director and Drama Teacher)'s Demonstration