Literacy Week - recap

In Week Three, Staughton College held its annual Literacy Week. The week consisted of exciting and engaging activities which included a spelling-bee, writing competitions, a haiku hunt and our infamous staff vs student debate. Literacy Week is a great opportunity for us as a school to celebrate everything reading, writing and speaking. 

Staff vs. Student Debate - 

This year, the students were yet again the reigning champions of the staff vs student debate. The student team, made up of Kaley Roe, Tasman Broadway and Serg Grigorovitch, argued the negative side for the topic ‘Books that contain offensive material should be banned.’ 

The affirmative teacher’s team was made up of Anushka Vowels, Haley Clancy and Vin Eu Hor. It was a challenging and thought provoking debate, well done to everyone for researching, preparing and delivering some excellent ideas.  

• Affirmative Scores: Anushka- 30 16 32. Haley- 31 17 33 (Best Speaker). Vin- 32 16 30. Total 238.
• Negative Scores: Tasman- 31 16 32. Kaley- 31 17 32. Serg- 32 16 32. Total 239.

Spelling Bee - 

We had a great crowd and participation for the Spelling Bee. Students competed in year level groups and winners were able to spell challenging words suitable to their year level. 

• Spelling Bee Winners: Nykia Morrison, Elijah Sortino and Blake Coomb. 

Writing Competitions - 

Over the course of the week, multiple writing competitions were held in Junior English classes and SEAL Tutorial classes. 

For the Junior English classes, students submitted entries for multiple Writing Competitions for different writing types. For persuasive writing, students wrote a TEEL paragraph that answered the following question: What book would you make required reading for everyone on the planet and why? How do you think this would change the world? For the cross curricular writing, students used a technique of drawing pictures with math formulas to retell a story. For poetry writing, students wrote a 10 line poem that summed up the entire story of their favourite book and for creative writing, students wrote a creative piece based on a visual image from a particular genre. 

For the SEAL Tutorial writing competition, students were provided with a prompt and the start of the story and the race was on to see who could finish writing the most intriguing story. The winning class for the writing competition was the Year 8 SEAL Class.

• Persuasive Writing Winners: Sienna Sciarra and Stella Neilson 
• Cross-Curricular Writing Winners: Jade De Los Reyes and Courtney Geard
• Poetry Writing Winner: Brianna Pollock 
• Creative Writing Winner: Aviel Vargas

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