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By Erika Rolling

Winning Essay

La Glace student wins national contest for Remembrance Day essay

Jun 23, 2022 | 8:40 AM

Kate Goodward has been nationally recognized for her essay The Poppy, which was written and submitted for The Royal Canadian Legion and The Legion National Foundation’s annual literacy contest.

Goodward is a Grade 9 student at La Glace School and her essay won first place at the Sexsmith Branch #60 before moving onto the Legion’s Provincial level, and then went on to the Legion National Foundation in Ottawa, where it placed first yet again.

She said in a news release she was caught off guard by the announcement. “I didn’t expect to win at the national level, because I didn’t think the Intermediate level made it that far.”

Goodward is the first local student to ever earn a national title for the contest.

The contest is open across Canada to promote remembrance and support youth education from Grades 1 through 12.

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Each of the 1,350 Legion Branches across the nation submits one entry per category to the Provincial level to be judged, which is divided into four categories:

• · Senior: Grades 10, 11, 12
• · Intermediate: Grades 7, 8, 9
• · Junior: Grades 4, 5, 6
• · Primary: Grades 1, 2, 3 (poster contest only)

Only top entries are sent to the Legion National Foundation for the final round of judging before category winners are chosen for each level.

You can read Kate Goodward’s essay The Poppy below. Other winners from the 2022 Legion National Foundation’s Poster and Literacy Contest can be found by clicking here.

Photo courtesy The Legion National Foundation’s Winners 2022 Poster and Literary Contests