はじめまして。わたしのなまえわKeithです。おんせいがわるい。よろしくおねがいいたします。

Your writing is very good! It was very well written. I hope that I can help you become an even better writer. I have used strike through text (strike through) to remove anything that was hard to understand and used underlined text (underline) for any additions. I hope that these examples with help you sound even more natural in english. 

Writing Practice

Recently, I have opportunities had the oppertunity to look for newspaper articles for children both written in Japanese and English. During While surfing on the net, I have realised that there are many writing cometitions competitions in Japan, but not many in Australia (or at least I have not noticed them).

Thinking back on my childhood, competitions with some sort of prize were always around me. I always loved reading, but sometimes what I wanted to read and what my paretents parents wanted me to read were different. Thus, they did not buy me some books/comics. However, they did not object me to buy prohibit me from buying them with book vouchers which I earned myself, either.

I am not sure about now, but the popular prizes back then were book vouchers and stationery vouchers. because awarding Awarding cash to children were was forbidden and it was converted into the vouchers even the case though cash were was awarded to the adults.

Teachers were favourably support very supportive of students and always willing to proof read our writing. They were flexible and let us choose the topics of writing, painting and research project projects for our summer holiday homework too. They even showed a booklet of competitions to students before the holiday and advised us how to kill two birds with one stone: complete homework and enter the competition. I still remember at one stage the deputy of primary school was looking after me and my sister who was more artistic and was entering calligraphy and painting competitions.

Lack of skills of literacy and numeracy math of the primary and secondary students, are huge problems here. However, it seems there are not many opportunities for them to improve those skills here, either. I think students would write and read more if schools show them the provide them with competitions which offer not only the top award, but also participation award.