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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.
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CREATIVITY remains “HOT” right now at SJRC, as do all things reading, watching and listening.
On this note, we’ve included a bit of a ‘What I’m Reading, Watching, Listening’ to “whip around” and the results speak for themselves: isolation stops none of us from engaging with a good book, series, podcast or music!
Podcast and Book Recommendation from SJRC Students
Lauren Johnston, Year 8, recommends ‘The Darkest Minds Series’ by Alexandra Bracken. She also recommends ‘The 100’ by Kass Morgan and ‘Anne of Green Gables’ by L.M Montgomery.
Kiara Newman, Year 7 recommends the book "You, me and everything" by Catherine Isaac. It is pretty much a life story and is super interesting and good to read. I would point this book to the girls' side for reading
Matilda Shields, Year 7 recommends several good reads, the first being "Wings of Fire" series! It is amazing and always gets you to visualise. It is about dragon tribes and a war for the throne and also friendship, but it is not for the squeamish! The graphic novels, in particular, mention a lot of blood and death heaps of death but mostly to the bad guys.
And the second recommendation from Matilda is "Fing" by David Walliams, Matilda says it is hilarious! It is kind of like a long "World's Worst Children" book but with only one bad child and a very furry monster.
What has been read, watched or listened to in your home lately?
Drop us a line and let us know. This could be the beginning of a ‘SJRC Virtual BookClub, PodClub or NetClub’!
What SJRC Staff are
Listening to, Reading and Watching
| Amy Haydon | Reading: ‘Wolf Hall’ Trilogy by Hilary Mantel, ‘Uneducated’ by Tara Westover, ‘All the Light we Cannot See’ by Anthony Doerr Watching: ‘Unorthodox’ and ‘Schitt’s Creek’ (Netflix) |
| Sophie Woods | Listening: Motherhacker, Someone Knows Something, Unravel |
| Diana Walsh | Reading: ‘Last Bridge Before Home’ by Lilly Malone |
| Fiona Jensen | Reading: ‘Boy Swallows Universe’ & ‘Normal People’ Watching: Stateless ABC & NETFLIX Listening: Casefile, True Crime Podcast |
| Matt Bushe | Reading: Just started ‘Boy Swallows Universe’ and LT Ryan (Jack Noble) novels on Kindle Watching: ‘No Offence’ (ABC iView) & ‘The Man in the High Castle’ (Amazon) Listening: Tony Martin’s Sizzletown (podcast) |
SJRC and MacKillop 2020 Interschool Debating & Public Speaking Competition Week 6 Term 3 Years 7-12
As mentioned last week, we’re pleased to advise that at this stage our annual SJRC and Mackillop Interschool Debating Competition planned for Term 3 is due to go ahead in Week 6. To accommodate the current health guidelines, there will be only one team from each year group; A section for public speaking will be included.
Further details will be made available within the next week or two regarding team training and selection, and public speaking guidelines.
Keep reading, writing, reflecting, composing, creating, musing and connecting.
The SJRC Lit Enrichment Team