We hope you enj0yed Book Week, as much as our hardworking staff enjoyed their very special Book Week cake created by Amanda from Tophat Cupcakes, who incidentally, is an ex-student of SFX. In the Dark Spaces by Cally Black was very popular as was Mallee Boys by Charlie Archbold. Our Middle School students had the opportunity to vote on their favourite CBCA shortlisted book in the Older Readers Category. Congratulations also to Daniela Munoz, Jeewani Fernando and Kate Kirk on winning the Shredded Book Competition. They enjoyed their pizza lunch immensely. Many students enjoyed creating Book Art with recycled materials on Wednesday and our Reading Café students created colourful and detailed dragons from the story Boy by Phil Cummings on Thursday.Ĭongratulations to 7G1 on winning the Book Week Pastoral Quiz. How lucky we were to have such a wonderful selection of books brought to us to peruse and purchase.

Many people stopped by and browsed our Pop-up Bookshop hosted by Leisha from Book Passion at the Belconnen Markets. Thank you to the musicians, teachers and crew for making this event happen so smoothly. In Week 5 the Resource Centre staff organised a variety of activities to celebrate Book Week with the theme ‘Find Your Treasure.’ On Monday and Tuesday some talented music students entertained us at lunchtime with some relaxing tunes. Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Education.Interpersonal relations - Juvenile fiction. Interpersonal relations - Young adult fiction.įarm life - Australia - Juvenile fiction. Winner, Unpublished Manuscript Award, Adelaide Festival, 2016.įarm life - Australia - Young adult fiction. It turns out this is going to be one hell of a year. As Sandy and Red deal with girls, dirt biking, footy and friendship, both have to work out who they want to be, without their mum. Mallee Boys by Charlie Archbold Sometimes I feel like Im neither one thing nor another. His brother Red is 18 and working the farm. Sandy knows that life at 15 is hard, but it's even harder when your mum died a year ago and nothing's gone right since. Industry Reviews 'A well-paced and ultimately suspenseful tale full of convincing and engaging characters.' Katharine England, Ian Lipke, 'A story of love, mateship, growing up in the country and chasing your dreams.