St John’s students, staff and families joined the 22nd National Simultaneous Story Time (NSS) last Wednesday at the school. This year’s story was ‘Family Tree’ by Josh Pyke. NSS is held annually by the Australian Library and Information Association to promote the value of reading and literacy. One Australian book is chosen each year to be read simultaneously all over the country. As part of the celebrations at St John’s, students dressed up in their favourite colours from the story and completed activities throughout the day. Pictured are students Hayley Carstens, Ariella Nardi, Ella Armstrong, Liam Cain and Xavier Foster with teacher Jessica Fugar.
St John’s students, staff and families joined the 22nd National Simultaneous Story Time (NSS) last Wednesday at the school. This year’s story was ‘Family Tree’ by Josh Pyke. NSS is held annually by the Australian Library and Information Association to promote the value of reading and literacy. One Australian book is chosen each year to be read simultaneously all over the country. As part of the celebrations at St John’s, students dressed up in their favourite colours from the story and completed activities throughout the day. Pictured are students Hayley Carstens, Ariella Nardi, Ella Armstrong, Liam Cain and Xavier Foster with teacher Jessica Fugar.
Empire easily defeated Nymagee by six wickets in the Cobar & District Senior Cricket 40 Overs game at Ward Oval on Saturday. The only high point for Nymagee on the day was winning the toss! They chose to bat and it all started to unravel in the second over when […]
The Cobar Athletics & Triathlon Squad’s (CATS) first event of the 2022/2023 season had a great turnout with 25 registering to compete as individuals and teams in Sunday’s triathlon. Three individuals and one team competed in the Long Course event (500m swim/ 20km ride/ 4km run) with Tom Summerhayes blitzing […]
SpongeBobs eventually won the Junior 13-16 years Touch grand final, 10-7, on Thursday night at Tom Knight Memorial Oval in a fast-paced, high scoring match. Referees Bianka Jacobson and Simone Neyland did well to keep up with the free-flowing match that showcased plenty of pace as well as excellent draw […]