Spotlight 10 min Play Comp Launch

WHAT’S NEW AT SPOTLIGHT 2015:

To learn more about our online 10 min play comp for teens, visit the home of our Competition – Learning Place Ed Studio Key: S818115759.  If you don’t have access to the learning place, everything you need to get you started is here in the Spotlight tab of our blog so click here or on the image below.                      Entries close May 30th.

1 THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS SPOTLIGHT SPONSORS: LOGOS

BLIND DATES FOR FEBRUARY

Throughout February you can borrow a Blind Date.  You’re heard the old adage, “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover”?  When you borrow your mystery book, you don’t unwrap it until you get it home. We supply one or two clues, but that’s it. We hope you enjoy reading something that you wouldn’t normally sample. You never know, you might just find a new favourite genre or author.  Many of our Year 7 & 8 classes have enjoyed Speed Dating (with a book) sessions before borrowing for the first time this year.

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PHOTO DAYS

NQ School Photography will be taking our school photographs this year on Thursday 19th and Friday 20th February Order Online at www.nqsp.com.au using this shoot key J3Q28EZR or return the paper order form your child receives to our photographers on photo day. Sibling photos will still need to be ordered via paper order forms. If you lose your instructions to order online, here they are again below:

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Book Week 2013

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Last week we celebrated the Children’s Book Council of Australia’s national Book Week and we featured Brian Cox’s brilliant science lecture about our unfathomable Universe. It’s easy to download a youtube video – just watch the tutorial for a rapid method. We hung our own milky way of stars around our “Astronomy” and “Early Navigators” display (part of the Yr 8 curriculum). While “Sea Hearts” won the Young Adult category and both “The Ink Bridge” and “Friday Brown” were honour books, we featured a display of the brilliant “Creepy & Maud” by Diane Touchell. All the shortlisted titles are featured on the Book Week tab of our 24/7 Online Catalogue page.

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Our Book Week Quiz competition was won by Allysha Sordelli 11F. Alicia matched the titles of 10 Sci-Fi classics with their correct first-lines.  Our “Take me to your Reader” poster competition was won by Raylinda Mura 9C.

EBooks are Now on the Menu

Yes, we now hold a few dozen ebooks.  Most are copyright free classics but we will be purchasing more contemporary titles as our budget permits.  For all instructions about how to select and download our ebooks on your tablet (year 9) iphone, ipad or laptop  read the instructions on the Ebooks tab of our Catalogue page.

Spotlight Short Play Competition Winner

CongratulPerez_Giannaations Gianna Perez for winning our regional short play writing competition.  Gianna’s play “Room 28” will be staged this October 14 & 15th at our second round of Spotlight evenings with the Performing Arts faculty. Gianna also wins an ipad mini courtesy of Mario Calanna Pharmacies – our sponsor. All entries will recieve a participation certificate and our Judge, Ms Avril Duck has given everyone constructive feedback.

 

A challenge of a Puzzle

Finally, our latest jigsaw is completed. This butterfly shaped puzzle proved really difficult.  Mrs Kosky, our computer technician & Nathan Black, Yr 12, are regular contributors to this communal activity and are pictured fighting over the placement of the last pieces!

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