St John’s Book Battle

Last Friday morning, the two Book Battle teams for St John’s School prepared and left to go to Northcross Intermediate to compete in the annual interschool Book Battle.

The two teams hopped into the cars and drove off (a parent/teacher drove it obviously). They soon arrived at the place where it all happened. They took pictures of the two teams and so, the battle began!

 All the competitors went to their tables and chose their joker rounds. A joker round is where each team picks a round, which is made of ten questions, and put a sticker provided onto the page. It then signifies to the judges that they will receive double points for each correct answer. Then the questions and possible answers are read out and each team tries their best to circle the correct answer.

After the questions were done the judges called out the winners, however there were ties for second and third and guess what? One of the St John’s teams was in the tie and there had to be tiebreakers! Tiebreakers are when two teams are asked a question and then everyone tries to put their hand up first if they know the answer and get picked to say the answer. The St John’s team that was in the tiebreaker won third place and got a prize that included a trophy, a box of books for the school, and $15 each!

After that was all over the two teams headed to Sherwood Park to have ice cream and a little bit of time to play to celebrate their victory. They then drove all the way back to school and continued their normal school day.

Teresa Rotaeche and Annabel Vink (Team Captains), St John’s School