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 workshop to make earrings inspired by locally produced metals, copper and silver, was held on Saturday with the backing of the Country Arts Support Program (CASP). The workshop, headed up by Meike Griffiths who owns local business, the Audacious Design Co, showed the 10 participants how to work with […]
Cobar Shire Council staff are planning to auction off their general manager Peter Vlatko next week. The auction is going to be a bit of fun and they are doing it for charity. The council staff are taking part in a fundraising competition with other councils in the region with […]
Cobar Shire Council general manager Peter Vlatko inspecting the graffiti damage at the Cobar Youth Centre yesterday morning. Mr Vlatko said a review of CCTV footage from the main street and Drummond Park area from Monday night/Tuesday morning has identified that the damage was caused by local youths. He said […]
