Library and English News

Book week celebrations 2018

This year’s Book week was celebrated in style with many classes joining in for fun filled educational activities in our brand new Library. The theme of the Book week for this year was ‘Find your treasure’.

The library organised games and competitions on finding treasures among books. While looking for treasures our girls learned about our genre system, the shelving order of the books and also the images of the genre labels. They had great fun and also won prizes.

The highlight of the Book week activities was the author lecture given by the award winning famous Australian author of many teenage fiction titles; James Moloney.  James Moloney was studied by our students just a couple of years ago and they loved seeing him and hearing from him in person.  James talked about how he started off as a writer while working as a teacher in Queensland, how he transformed thoughts into words and then into books. He also gave valuable tips on becoming a successful writer and how to get books published.

His advice to our students was ‘Don’t lose heart if your first book is rejected by publishers, just keep writing’. He also read snippets of a few of his prize winning books. More than 200 girls came for the lecture and were transfixed to his reading and also asked many useful questions. I would say our girls were highly inspired by the visit.

Neelika Kottachchi

Library Manager

English 

Students in Year 7 to 10 are currently preparing for their last CAT of this term and then they will be planning for the Public Speaking Competition early in week four.

All girls will present to their classes and initially they will choose a topic and undertake research for this accordingly.

Many girls became involved in library activities to celebrate Book Week, culminating in the attendance by several English classes at a talk given by prominent children's author James Moloney.

Anne Gamble

Head of English and Literacy