Writer’s Circle started its second season in Week 5 this term, where aspirant writers from Years 3 to 6 gather to share creative ideas and build their skills in writing. Students excitedly received their welcome packs outlining the goals and writing genre for this season, together with their Writer’s Notebooks to collect snippets of songs and […]
In Writers Circle last Thursday, students were treated to a visit from published children’s author, Sally Fawcett. Sally read her book “Through the Gate” and gave students a rare insight into both the writing and illustrating process at different stages of the book. She showed them her original artworks and talked about how body language mirrored […]
Most writers have to wait until their adult years to have their writing published, but Annabel B. (Year 5) and Arley D. (Year 3) have shown the way with The West Australian publishing their writing in their ED liftout in Tuesday’s paper (24 October). Along with three other students, they entered the paper’s annual Junior […]
In the first week of June, MRPS students were treated to a sneak peek of what would be presented at the official annual Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival. Ms Jolly organised a range of presenters who came to our school and shared the experience of writing with our students. The presentations were arranged in […]
Welcome back everybody! School starts for students tomorrow, Wednesday 24 July. Hope everybody had a good holiday break to re-energise! 🙂 When Andy was here earlier in the year, I asked him if he’d like to write something for us and here it is. He’s given us a preview of the detailed front cover which […]
