Competitions
Competitions

Hong Kong Budding Poets (English) Award 2021/22 (Updated on 4 Jul 2022)

Final Result Announcement

  1. Competition Result, Prize-giving Ceremony and the HKAGE Membership Arrangements

Important Announcement (Updated on 25 February 2022)

In view of the latest epidemic situation, the deadline for online entry submission (by participant) is postponed to 25 April 2022 (Monday); and
the deadline for online entry submission (by teachers-in-charge) is postponed to 26 April 2022 (Tuesday) 11:59 a.m.

Important Announcement (Updated on 17 February 2022)

In view of the latest epidemic situation, the deadline for online entry submission (by teachers-in-charge) is postponed to 7 March 2022 (Monday) 11:59 a.m.

Introduction

  1. Details and Regulations of Hong Kong Budding Poets (English) Award 2021/22 (updated on 25 Feb 2022)

Application

  1. Hong Kong Budding Poets (English) Award Online Platform
  2. Manual of Hong Kong Budding Poets (English) Award Online Platform
  3. Training Workshops for Participants (Optional)
  4. Important Dates

Training Workshops for Participants (Optional)

ActivityDate and TimeVenueLanguageApplicationApplication Deadline

Training Workshop for Primary Students

(E1BPA001W / E1BPA001W-2 / E1BPA001W-3)

15 Jan 2022 /
22 Jan 2022 /
29 Jan 2022 (Sat)

10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Online Platform: Zoom

The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (Classroom to be confirmed)

English

Information

3 Jan 2022
 
(Application closing time:12:00 n.n)

Workshops application result will be announced on 6 Jan 2022 5:00 p.m. by email

Training Workshop for Secondary Students

(E2BPA001W /
E2BPA001W-2 / E2BPA001W-3)

15 Jan 2022 /
22 Jan 2022 /
29 Jan 2022 (Sat)

2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

Information

Important Dates

DateActivity

20 Dec 2021 (Mon)
12:00 noon

Deadline for school online registration

3 Jan 2022 (Mon)
12:00 noon

Deadline for Training Workshops for Participants

6 Jan 2022 (Thu)
5:00 p.m.

Result Announcement for Training Workshops for Participants

15 Jan / 22 Jan /
29 Jan 2022 (Sat)

Training Workshops for Participants (Optional)

1 Mar 2022 (Wed)
 12:00 noon

25 Apr 2022 (Mon)
 12:00 noon

Deadline for online entry submission by participants

7 Mar 2022 (Wed)
 12:00 noon

26 Apr 2022 (Tue)
 12:00 noon

Deadline for online entry submission by teachers-in-charge*

Mar to Apr 2022

May to Jun 2022

Preliminary and Final Adjudication

Mid-May 2022
 (Tentative)

4 July 2022 (Mon)

Final Result Announcement

Late-May or early-Jun 2022 (Tentative)

19 July 2022 (Tue) 6:30 p.m. to 7:50 p.m.

Prize-giving Ceremony


*Notes:

  1. To join the competition, schools are required to complete the application through the Hong Kong Budding Poets (English) Award Online Platform. Online School Application should be submitted and the signed and stamped School Application Form should be returned on or before 12:00 n.n., 23 December 2021 (Thu).
  2. Teachers-in-charge login information of the “Hong Kong Budding Poets (English) Award Online Platform” will be sent to the teachers-in-charge by email within 3 days upon receipt of the completed Online School Application Form. Teachers-in-charge can create accounts for students by logging in at the “Teacher Zone” of the “Hong Kong Budding Poets (English) Award Online Platform”.
  3. To prevent emails related to HKBPA mistakenly being sent to the spam folder, teachers-in-charge and participants are advised to add the email address [email protected] to their email address book or contacts folder (Especially Yahoo Mail or Hotmail users ) so that all emails will go directly to their inbox.
  4. To complete online entry submission, teachers-in-charge are required to click the box under “Submit to the organiser” at the “Teacher Zone/ Students’ Poems” on or before 12:00 n.n., 26 April 2022 (Tue).

Previous Hong Kong Budding Poets (English) Awards

  1. Hong Kong Budding Poets (English) Award 2020/21

Reference

  1. Suggestion to Teachers-in-charge: Serious Problems to Avoid
  2. Learning and Teaching Resources for English (from EDB website)

Enquiry

For enquiries, please contact us on 3940 0502 or email at [email protected].