Rootsians win 60 awards in Royal Common Wealth Essay contest

Islamabad :The Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition is the world’s oldest schools’ international writing competition, managed by The Royal Commonwealth Society since 1883. Every year, it offers all Commonwealth youth aged 18 and under the opportunity to express their hopes for the future, opinions of the present, and thoughts on the past through the written word. The competition is used by individuals and teachers to build confidence, develop writing skills, support creativity and encourage critical thinking, using literacy to empower young people to become global citizens.

The 2017 competition theme was A Commonwealth for Peace, with topics that challenged young writers to consider peace at every level: from the personal to the political to the pan-Commonwealth. Thousands of young people took part, writing stories, poems, essays, scripts and cartoons about this important and contemporary topic. The competition was run in partnership with Cambridge University Press.

Roots School Students win 60 Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards in the Royal Common Wealth Essay Competition 2017. According to the Royal Common Wealth Society, U.K press release, nearly 12,300 entries were received from all over the WORLD this year. It is indeed a great honour and achievement to win 60 awards from a single school system in Pakistan. Roots is No 1 in bagging 60 awards as compared to all other winners from Pakistan. Many prestigious Schools participated in the annual essay contest and have won Silver and Bronze Awards.

The international jury has congratulated all the winners and has thoroughly enjoyed reading the entries and was highly impressed by the standard of essays. An elegant award ceremony was also arranged in Roots School System DHA I Campus to celebrate the victory of winners of The Royal Common Wealth Essay Contest 2017.

Founder & Chairperson Roots School System Mrs. Riffat Mushtaq presented Awards to the winners and appreciated students and teaching faculty.