The students
and staff celebrated book week with an outstanding book parade in the COLA. The
Cromer family always enjoy book week and the costumes reflect a great love of
reading.
The visit
from the Co Theatre Physical group informed our junior students about the need
for sustainability and the importance of bees. The play mesmerised the students
for well over an hour and the teachers were delighted with a show that
supported their studies of Science in the classroom.
We were
honoured to meet Boori Monty Pryor who is an Indigenous Australian writer best
known as a storyteller and as the inaugural Australian Children's Laureate
(2012–2013). He is descended from the Birri-gubba nation of the Bowen region
and the Kunggandji people from Yarrabah, near Cairns. His performance gave our
students the opportunity to participate in dancing and singing in order to
understand aspects of Aboriginal culture.
Book Fair
2019
The annual
book fair will take place at our school from Wednesday October 23rd
until Friday October 25th. It will be open before and after school
on the Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and all day on Grandparents Day October
24th. Please support our school library by buying a book for your
child.
MS Readthon
At last
count the students of Cromer have raised $632.88. Thank you so much for reading
for such a great cause.
The Library
Program
Kindergarten
The students
will study a range of high quality texts which have been shortlisted in
previous years. They will be given the opportunity to respond to a variety of
imaginative and informative texts which will be read for enjoyment and
pleasure. They will have the opportunity to join in with chants and rhymes,
research information and share their own opinions about various topics
encountered in the texts.
Stage One
Aaron Blabey
is one of Australia's most loved authors for children. He has nearly four
million books in print, many of which are multiple award winners. He was the
2012 National Literacy Ambassador and, in 2015, The Brothers Quibble was
featured in National Simultaneous Storytime.
Blabey's
books are extremely popular in our school library and in 29 other countries. He
often uses the poetic genre and his stories are humorous, often with a moral.
The text is always supported by his engaging illustrations.
The students
in stage one will study eleven books in this unit.
Stage Two
The students
in stage two will participate in a series of visual literacy lessons exploring
the conversion of story to film. They will analyse the main elements of a story
and explore the manner in which they are redesigned to suit the production of a
film. They will then study the nature of subplots, the use of background music,
montages, the use of satire, irony and the role of the villain. The importance
of conflict and resolution will also be examined.
Stage Three
The novel
His Name Was Walter by Emily Rodda won book of the year for younger readers in
the Children’s Book Council awards this year. It is a powerful story within a
story brilliantly crafted by this gifted author. Reviewer Danny Solomon States:
The story within the story at first
seems like nonsense - a boy raised by bees, who works for mice, meets a witch
who turns into a cat, lives with a landlord who’s a chicken and falls in love
with a young woman who turns into a sparrow - but as both stories move on
fantasy and history blend and reveal themselves for what they are.
In the hands of a less skilled writer
the ‘reveal’ could have been almost jarring - the way reality suddenly appears
on top of this story about talking animals and ogres - but instead - the shift
from an English-style folk story to Australian history was a thrill. Another
magnificent book from Emily Rodda.
The students
in stage three will undertake a literacy contract using this outstanding text.
Stocktake
The annual
stocktake will begin in week eight. We ask that all books are returned to the
library by week six when all borrowing will cease.
