Literacy Enrichment - Get Involved!
What is ‘Literacy Enrichment’ at SJRC?
It’s opportunities in and out of SJRC that enrich students’ understanding of and experience with media, film, reading, writing and language in general. It’s excursions, festivals, writing, debating and public speaking competitions and live performance.
Check us out at - SJRC Literacy Enrichment
Creativity
Creativity is so hot right now at SJRC and the opportunities for more creativity keep opening up, despite our current isolation.
Here’s a sample:
- #Litfest2444: Our amazing annual festival of all things media, literacy and digital storytelling is coming to all students live and online. Hurry and book a free online session: https://www.litfest2444.com.au/home
- Litfest2444 Story Bombing comp:
https://shortaustralianstories.com.au/storybombing-x-litfest2444/ - Our own SJRC Literacy Enrichment site: SJRC Literacy Enrichment
Podcast and Book Recommendation
This week’s podcast and book recommendations: from Maisy Taylor in Year 8:
Podcast: Little Green Pod, By Fi Poole on Podcasts.
Book: The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley.
Next Week:
We will be bringing an update on The 2020 SJRC v Mackillop College Interschool Debating and Public Speaking competition on in Term 3.
We will be bringing an update on The 2020 SJRC v Mackillop College Interschool Debating and Public Speaking competition on in Term 3.
Watch this space!
Year 9 English - Letters to Bring a Smile
Ms Mooney’s Year 9 class recently answered a nursing home’s social media call for action. The aged care facility had been in lockdown due to the Coronavirus and consequently, their residents were unable to receive visitors. To help them feel more ‘connected to the outside world’ the nursing home asked if there were any people willing to write their residents a letter.
In the last week of Term 1, 9ENG1 answered the call. Students wrote a little about themselves, their lives and how they were coping studying from home. We hope our letters brought a little smile in the lives of the elderly residents.
Keep reading, writing, reflecting, composing, creating, musing and connecting.
The SJRC Lit Enrichment Team
