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 educator, Kate Munro, is working to promote the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation’s ‘Literacy is Free-dom’ campaign, which targets literacy in remote and indigenous communities and also among refugees. “Their strategy is to try and provide early literacy training to staff and intervention for children that need it,” Kate […]
The Cobar Miners Race Club has been gifted another ‘Pop Up’ Race Meeting just in time for Christmas. Cobar Miners Race Club president Jarrod Marsden said following on from the success of their Pop Up meeting in September, Racing NSW has granted the Cobar club another Pop Up meeting on […]
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 […]
