Book Week at PCW

Reading is my secret power!

Book Week celebrations at PCW were a lot of fun.  A group of FOALs (Friends Of Aquinas Library, made up of Year 7-9 students) volunteered to organise and run activities and they did this very enthusiastically.  They promoted Book Week activities by designing and distributing posters around the school and visiting morning homerooms.  Activities included the Book Trivia Quiz, Blind Date with a Book and Write a Book in a Day.  All activities were very well attended.  We also had a book sale, the proceeds of which will go to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. 

Thank you to all students who participated in Book Week activities. A special thank you to the following FOALS for their wonderful organisation and participation: Ciena Sampson, Africa Matusik, Amielle Paruit, Cleo Sparrow-Cooper, Gizelle Pamamull, Scarlett Waugh, Eva Philippiadis, Arnika Wain, Alessandra Stasey, Ruby Williams, Grace Lewis, Audrey Guevarra, Audrey Paruit, Lucy English, and Hannah O’Brien.  These students were rewarded with morning tea for their hard work and enthusiasm!

Helen Eglezos

Head of Library

Write A Book In A Day

On Wednesday, 21st August, three teams from Years 7 to 12 participated in the Write A Book In A Day challenge.  Each team had nine hours to write and illustrate a book from start to finish, they were provided with unique parameters and five random words that needed to be included in the story.  This was no easy feat and has become a tradition at PCW.  The girls immersed themselves in the writing process, discussing, planning, editing and producing a piece of creative writing that they can all be proud of.

Josephine Olivieri

Languages and Literature Learning Leader

8.30am, the writing masses of PCW saddled up and crusaded to the library to embark on a journey of storytelling to fundraise for the Kid’s Cancer Project.  Three tribes, juniors and seniors alike, all buzzed on caffeine and sugar.  Planted in the library’s finest green couches, whiteboard markers ago, awaiting the papers that would determine our fate for the day, and that of our books.  Parameters were handed out - words to include, human and non-human characters (a chemist, a pharmacist, and a goldfish), location (radio-station), and an issue (hidden treasures).  With time-ticking, fervent debate ensued over the plots and peoples of our books.  Talking over the top of one another, by 10:30am, outlines were drawn and keys-a-clacking.  A mighty illustrator and each author tasked with a chapter of their own, the clock was ticking with only a few hours left in the day and pizza was on the way. 

10 hours later, 6:30pm, we, the senior team, sat in front of our prized, 13 page illustrated novella about a missing magical goldfish and a reignited friendship.  The senior team’s book, “Something Seems Fishy” was to be shipped off to the press.  As it is a competition, we excitedly await the results, having won a prize last year.

Sincerely, what remains of the Writer’s Collective. 

Charlotte Carnes

Year 12 Student