Students Can Brush Up On Their Writing Skills This Summer

Sure, it’s summer and students are off doing something fun, likely involving sunshine and lots of running.

There are alternatives to playing outside — a new writing course being offered to area students.

Watertown Middle School will host a new one-week writing course in August to help students boost their non-fiction writing skills, according to John Vitti who supervises both the Cunniff and Watertown Middle School student newspapers. Lessons learned could help students with their academic work, he said in an announcement. There is open to Watertown students as well as students form surrounding towns.

The course will run from Aug. 15 -19 at the middle school. The first session is open to younger students and will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. and the second session is open to older students and runs from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. The course is capped at 15 students and it costs $125 to enroll. WMS teacher Kara Conceison will run the sessions along with Vitti.

To register, send in the form to Summer Programs 2011, Attn: Barbara Stweart, Student Services Department, 30 Common St., Watertown, MA, 02472.