St John’s School held the finals of their Public Speaking competition at the school last Wednesday. Pictured above are Year 2’s finalists Sophia Le Lievre, Michael Rogers and Xavier Foster, whose topic was ‘Country life is better than city life’. Students in other classes were tasked with discussing the benefits/disadvantages of three day weekends, the pros and cons of shorter school days, gave their views on nets in the oceans and Kinders were required to recite a nursery rhyme. The competition’s judges were impressed with the students’ highly developed speaking skills.
St John’s School held the finals of their Public Speaking competition at the school last Wednesday. Pictured above are Year 2’s finalists Sophia Le Lievre, Michael Rogers and Xavier Foster, whose topic was ‘Country life is better than city life’. Students in other classes were tasked with discussing the benefits/disadvantages of three day weekends, the pros and cons of shorter school days, gave their views on nets in the oceans and Kinders were required to recite a nursery rhyme. The competition’s judges were impressed with the students’ highly developed speaking skills.
Local Barry Knight (at left) was a finalist for Volunteer of the Year at the 2021/2022 Little Athletics NSW Awards dinner held at Ettalong on Saturday night. And while he didn’t win, Barry reckons he may have “conned” retired Australian sprinter, Melinda Gainsford-Taylor (also pictured above with Barry’s son Troy, […]
Cobar Miners Race Club president Jarrod Marsden was thrilled to welcome a big crowd (estimated to be about 2,000) for the club’s Autumn race meeting on Saturday. After a few days of rain leading up to the event, the sun shone on Saturday for what Mr Marsden believes “was undoubtedly […]
Samantha Longmore, at centre front, was in town teaching classes at The Pink Galah art studio over the weekend and was coaxed into staying another night. Cobar Shire Council youth officer, Natalie Prisk, said they engaged Samantha to make a presentation to local youth. She recounted her story of how […]
