Author Visits

The lead up to Book Week has begun with a fantastic three days of author visits presenting to students from Prep to Year 8. Local author Aleesah Darlinson had the Prep-Year 2 students completely engaged in her energetic presentation which covered stories, animals, unicorns and more on Monday. Tuesday, we hosted Jess Black who is currently in Queensland from her home town of Newcastle. Jess kept the Year 3/4/5 students engrossed as she talked about her numerous series such as Keepers of the Crystals and Little Paws, her tips for writing and her love of animals. Simon Higgins was our guest on Wednesday for the Year 6/7/8 students. Simon has quite the following for his action/adventure books and intrigues his audience not only with his stories of his writing career but also his expertise in martial arts including his skill with the samurai sword.

As a real positive for all these sessions not only did the students all agree they gained so much insight, but all the authors commented on the excellent behavior and attention of our students. Thanks everyone for your forbearance with timetable disruptions for the author visits – which it would seem from feedback already received were a great success.

I’m sure many of the students have taken away some valuable ideas around literacy and writing – not to mention for the Middle students some great insights into Japanese culture, history and the uncanny abilities of ninja girls!

Coming up next – Book Fair!   [PIC: Jess Black]

Sue Warren, Teacher-Librarian