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.
A number of local community services collaborated to raise awareness of homelessness issues by hosting a free soup kitchen lunch in Drummond Park yesterday. They also brought in a couch representing where many young people find themselves when they are escaping family and domestic violence, a housing crisis, have inadequate […]
The Inter Mine Golf Challenge committee has donated a battery operated lawn mower and whipper snipper to the Cobar Girl Guides to help them with the yard maintenance at the Guide Hall. Greg Clark delivered it last week and also mowed the lawn while he was there. Now you can’t […]
The Cobar Roosters started off the 2022 Castlereagh Rugby League season in the same fashion as they finished last year, in fine form, beating the visiting Gilgandra Panthers 34-14. The Roosters’ opening round game on Saturday afternoon in front of a home crowd at Tom Knight Memorial Oval was a […]
