book week 2021
competition results:
Students and teachers had the opportunity to win Book Week 2021 prizes as well as house points throughout Book Week. Here are the results:
How Many Lollies in the Jar? 334. Jade East in Year 8 guessed 336 and won 5 points for Benedict house and the jar full of lollies!
Book Cover Comp: Ellie Smith in Year 11 redesigned the cover for Escape From Alcatraz by J. Campbell Bruce (see photo) and won 10 points for Patrick house and a bookish prize. The entries were so impressive that Liabelle Turnbull in Year 8 (Geek Girl) and Kascia Lynn in Year 7 (Uglies) both won runner up prizes for their book covers (see photos) and 2 points for their houses - Vincent and Benedict.
Mix N Match Teachers & Books #1 and #2 proved difficult to guess for most but two students achieved top marks! Gabby Li in Year 11 scored 17/17 in #1, won 5 points for Benedict house and a bookish prize. Georgia-Rose Smith in Year 10 scored 12/12 in #2, won 5 points for Patrick house and a bookish prize. See links for answers to both of these comps.
BOOK TRAILER:
Amelia Greef YR 10 Benedict house - 10 pts https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Dp-OOh8PUf5bmOv_i3YWL7La6zinkVIX/view?usp=sharing
Michayla Meilak YR 7 Benedict house - 10 pts https://drive.google.com/file/d/115-AygVkEhUW0u3uUQlWr8HuseRy1gjf/view?usp=sharing
DRESS UP:
Amalie Dodman YR 7 Francis house - 20 pts
6 WORD STORY:
"Heartbeat stopped, tears fell, darkness followed" by Zara G - surname unknown - please contact the Library
"Time Traveller Tragically Dies. 2017 - 1417" Rohgan McCormac - Francis house 5 pts
SHORT STORY:
Rogue Wave by Michayla Meilak YR 7 Benedict house - 10 pts
Winning short story
Rogue Wave
There was no warning. It was completely unpredictable. No one knew what was to come. I was standing out on deck when I saw something strange coming towards us. It looked small, but then again, it was very far. I knew it was a wave, but I was totally blind to its real size and power. Then I saw…
We had to get the boat straight on. I had to warn the captain. Then all of a sudden, I was on the floor, jolted off my feet. People were scrambling across the deck, desperately trying to figure out what was happening. I realised that it wasn’t the ocean the had caused this chaos, but the captain was trying to turn the boat around. We had to go over it, if it hit us side-on, the ship would capsize and we would all drown. We weren’t going to make it. The ship wasn’t turning fast enough. I had to do something, but what. What could I possibly do against this mountain of black water that was about to drown us all. I could try and get everybody to lifeboats, but would we make it? There was no time. We had to act now. Before we…
Everyone was frantically trying to get onto a lifeboat. But we had run out of time. The wave was here. It was like a mountain. A dark monster of water that was going to destroy everything in its path. We were too late. We were gone. We would never make it out of this. Three thousand people who wanted a holiday cruise were about to be swallowed into the belly of the ocean. I watched, as the end towered over us like the killer that it was. I heard the roar and thunder of the wave as it descended on us. The spray stung my eyes, but I knew that it wouldn’t matter. Then, all of a sudden…
It was impossible. But it was. The rogue wave that was about to end us all had just...dropped. Died out into the darkness of the ocean. It was finished, just like we were about to be. But we were all fine. It was as if it was never there, as if we had imagined it. But it was there, just not anymore. The rolling thunder of death and terror that had risen out of the calm ocean night had gone. As quickly as it started, it had finished.
By Michayla Meilak
Books are magic!
Each year since 1945 the CBCA has brought children and books together across Australia through CBCA Book Week. During this time schools and public libraries spend one glorious week celebrating books and Australian children's authors and illustrators. Classroom teachers, teacher librarians and public librarians create colourful displays, develop activities, run competitions and tell stories relating to a theme to highlight the importance of reading.
At St Peter's we will have a Zoom dress-up challenge and bookish competitions running all week.
Never forget the power of books and reading:
"Reading challenges, empowers, bewitches, and enriches. Books move us to tears, open up our lives to new insights and understandings, inspire us, organise our existences and connect us with all creation. Surely there can be no greater wonder." (Steven Roger Fischer)
During our HMRs during Book Week, a teachers will read extracts from one of their favourite books.
