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.
Cobar Public School student Sienna Campbell has raised $3,658 for the Leukaemia Foundation’s Shave for a Cure, exceeding her initial goal of $3,000. Sienna lined up to get a close crop from local hairdresser Olivia Deighton last Thursday and the salon was buzzing with lots of Sienna’s school mates there […]
The Cobar 221 Army Cadet Unit held their formal dining-in night on Saturday at the Services Club which included the presentation of end of year awards. The Boot prize for the Most Outstanding Junior Cadet at Annual Camp was awarded to Cadet (CDT) Brodie Kreeck. The Greenie Award for Leadership […]
Participants in the Cobar Shire Library’s school holidays art and craft workshop on Monday morning, Ethan Jebb, Christopher Florance and Sam McKervey with Library staff member Krissy Mann. The workshop activity for 5-7 year olds was sand art with participants creating snails, caterpillars, butterflies and hot air balloon pictures to […]
