Last chance to enter PRC entries...

The Premier's Reading Challenge is drawing to a close and I have to have all entries validated by the first of September. So students need to have

books entered and 

permission slips returned by

Tuesday 30th of August 

Congratulations to the very keen readers completing the challenge this year. 

The children taking part have had to be totally self motivated for a few reasons: 

1. It was completely voluntary [Come if you want]
2. It was to be done in their own time  [at lunch time or at home - not even class time!!]
3. They began later than most of the other students taking part in the state [I didn't start at the school until the beginning of term 2]. 
4. They didn't have their teachers pushing them to do it [just Mrs Blake occasionally asking them had they entered their books!]

Well Done, certificates should arrive in Term 4  

Keep up the reading and if you didn't do the PRC this year, why not join us next year?!

Mrs B

Book Award winners announced

Kindy, year 1 and year 2 have been reading all the early childhood books shortlisted by the Children's Book Council of Australia and then voted for their favourite one. While most of the students liked all the books we read, the majority  prefered....

• The Deep End,
• It's Bedtime William and
• The Tall Man and the 12 Babies,

...... however, only one of these received an Honour award and none of them won!

The winner is ....

Maudie and Bear!

The two books to receive an Honour Award [runners' up] were....

• The Tall Man and the 12 Babies   and
• Look See, Look at me 

I think that the judges are looking for a number of things other than what is just popular - we were obviously just looking at what we liked! 

We celebrated book week with a competition for the best bookmark for years K - 2 and the best poster or bookmark for years 3 -6. Winners will be announced on Monday 29th of August. It has been hard to choose a winner for each grade as there have been some excellent entries  :-).....