BOOK WEEK: How great were the costumes for this year’s Book Week! I have to
say the boys in Year 6 who dressed as Barbie dolls in boxes were
very impressive but there were many fantastic costumes. I sincerely
thank you for your support in helping your child to dress up and
thanks to those that were able to join us on the day. Along with the
festivities of the character parade we held our first Book Fair in quite
some time, which raised over $1000, these funds will be put
towards new resources for our library.
AUTHOR VISIT: This week we welcomed Tristan Bancks an Australian children’s
author to St Mary’s to talk with our students and he was an asset in
our push to promote reading and writing.
WRITING COMPETITION: Along with the excitement of an author visit we are hosting our first
St Mary’s Big Write Competition. In the library we have set up a
stimulus for our writing piece which has been inspired by this year’s
Science Week theme. All students worked through brainstorming
good vocabulary with Mrs O’Brien in their library lesson and then
during class time the students will write. The top 5 pieces of writing
from each class will be submitted to the executive for judging and
one writer will be chosen for each year level as the “Best Writer
2023” and will be awarded medals at our week 8 morning MJR
assembly.
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