We received a wonderful insight into the life of a writer from our guest award-winning author Jane Catherine Burke, otherwise known as JC Burke. She shared an anecdote about her beginnings as a writer and overcoming her voice of doubt. JC also spoke about drawing on her life experiences as an Oncology nurse as the inspiration for her debut novel White Lies. Her novel The Story of Tom Brennan won the CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers and is currently being studied by our Year 12 Standard English classes as part of their HSC Course. After the assembly presentation, JC Burke held a workshop with our Year 12 students.

Other highlights of the assembly included the video presentations of Literacy and Numeracy Raps by the Year 7 Music classes. Stella B and Tavara S shared with us their compositions from Year 8 Aboriginal Studies. Tavara read her Acknowledgement of Country and Stella shared a poem about the importance of Land to Aboriginal people.

Over three weeks of this term, we competed in Literacy Planet’s Word Mania Competition, along with 2,000 schools across Australia and New Zealand. The following students received a certificate at the assembly for their performance:

Year 7: 2nd place in the region, 18th place across Australia/NZ

1st  Alyse A
2nd Zoe W
3rd Hayley C

Year 8: 1st place in the region, 2nd place across Australia/NZ

1st  Jessica K
2nd Olivia S
3rd  Christabelle A

Year 9: 3rd place in the region, 26th place across Australia/NZ

1st  Chantelle D
2nd Katrina B
3rd  Marissa K

Congratulations to these girls and all who competed in the Word Mania competition.

Michelle Parker - Maths Teacher