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.
A local Aboriginal corporation has recent-ly been appointed as the Crown Land Man-ager of a government-owned property in Barton Street. The Department of Planning and Environ-ment – Crown Lands has appointed the Ngem-ba, Ngiyampaa, Wangaaypuwan, Wayilwan Aboriginal Corporation (NNWW Aboriginal Corporation) to manage and use reserve land and buildings at […]
Cobar Public School teacher Dimity Stone (at right) with some of the school’s Year 3 and 4 students who took part in a walking excursion last Thursday. The group had stopped at the Great Western Gallery to look at some of the historical photos on display. The excursion was part […]
With the Golfie greens running fast and true due to greenskeeper Stewart Simpson’s hard work and dedication, the weekend’s bowls focus was on the much anticipated Championship Triples Bowls Final. The team of Kyle Roberts, Don Roberts and Barry Bargwanna outplayed Peter ‘Skeet’ Goonrey, Dean ‘Bogger’ McLeod and John Goonrey […]
