Early Harvest is a dynamic program for upper-primary students that gives them an in-depth experience of the publishing process. Under the program, we bring together an editorial board of Year 5 and 6 students who publish an annual fiction publication written by their peers.
‘The term after the project finished my child was more focussed when it came to homework and school projects. I used to chase her to complete homework but not now. I’d ask her how a certain project was going and she’d show me how she had already finished her planning, then how it was all complete.’
‘I felt powerful giving feedback to an author, like my opinion and feedback matters. If your audience is kids, you should be asking children to read your book first! We can give great feedback and make it better!’
‘It was a new experience editing a well-known writer's work.It was a little bit scary! But also exciting, to read the pre-published story.’
‘The stories really inspired me to write my own stories’
‘I love amazing stories written by children the same age as us. Some of them are better than the professionals’
‘The stories are really creative and funny.’
‘Participating in the Early Harvest program really helped our students develop new creative ways of writing, building characters, story arcs and narratives. But more than that it gave them a framework through which they can work through the process of writing, from an initial idea through to the final copy,’
