IRC News

Book Week - Escape to Everywhere!

The IRC celebrated Book Week 2017 on a large scale this year, with the theme “Escape to Everywhere”. We held a range of activities including: Book Week displays, writers in residence, inter House creative writing, spelling bee and quiz competitions.  The celebrations culminated with the staff morning tea and book character/multicultural dress up day.  One of the highlights of the celebrations was “Write-a-book-in-a-day” challenge which involved groups of students collaborating to write a book in 12 hours to raise funds for Kids Cancer Project.

The Book Week celebrations play a major role in encouraging the students to develop a love of books and of reading and writing to further enhance their literacy skills and at the same time to develop celebration and multicultural understanding.

The photos below show the students and staff participation in the activities during Book Week celebrations at the school.

Mrs Kamla Reddy

Director of Information Resource Centre 

Poetry Slam and Free BBQ

Date: Friday 1 September 2017 

Time: 5.00 pm - 7.30 pm

Venue: Narre Warren Youth Information Centre. 52 Webb Street, Narre Warren 3805

Join inspirational author Abe Nouk for a high-energy night sharing original poetry, short stories, and song lyrics. Young people aged 12 – 25 years have the rare opportunity to not only see this amazing performer in action, but to workshop your own poetry with Abe and other artists. Come along to share your work, gain professional advice and creative inspiration from Abe, and meet some amazing people. All ages are invited to come support your friends and family while soaking up the incredible atmosphere!

Abe is a spoken word poet, hip hop fanatic, MC and author. Ten years ago, Abe was illiterate when he and his family arrived in Australia as refugees from Sudan. Realising his illiteracy, he began reading and writing to improve his lyrical content for hip hop music. Abe went on to come third in the National Australian Poetry Slam and has published two poetry collections ‘Humble’ and ‘Dear Child’.

Cost Free