Literacy Enrichment - Get Involved!
What is ‘Literacy Enrichment’ at SJRC?
It’s opportunities in and out of SJRC that enrich students’ understanding of and experience with media, film, reading, writing and language in general. It’s excursions, festivals, writing, debating and public speaking competitions and live performance.
Week 11 Term 1 and Week 1 Term 2
We have a bit of a creative bent in this week’s newsletter. Sometimes when we find ourselves in an unexpected setting for extended periods we tend to lean into our creative impulses and start experimenting with whatever resources we have at hand. And sometimes we can develop a new interest and new skills in the process.
On that note, we’ve included a range of links that invite students to get curious and try something new. Most of these options are open to all ages and participation can lead to the most unexpected outcomes!
We’d love to hear of your personal literacy based discoveries with these or other opportunities you have discovered for yourself during this period of online learning
Please share Mrs McKee: penny.mckee@lism.catholic.edu.au
What’s Happening Now: Online Learning!
There’s plenty of information already sent to parents and students about our Continuity of Education plan with the setup of Google Classrooms and the use of ZOOM.
This week we have started collecting links to a range of educational resources that can engage all students and keep their minds active while assisting with their learning.
Online Enrichment Opportunities
General Learning
https://chatterpack.net/collections/chatterpack-esources
https://www.teachitenglish.co.uk/teaching-packs
https://www.weareteachers.com/teaching-reading-remotely/
Reading
And tips from our junior students
- ‘Skulduggery’ recommended by Thomas Edenborough
- ‘Percy Jackson’ by Rick Riordan, recommended by Hannah Thompson
- ‘School for Good and Evil’ by Soman Chainani, recommended by Isabella Gosson
Writing
- What Matters? writing competition is at least one event that due to its online nature won’t be cancelled. What Matters? entries close May 1. Check out the website now, https://www.whitlam.org/what-matters think of a cause or an issue that you feel really matters to you, and compose an entry in any written format.
To enter What Matters? students submit an original written work between 400-600 words in prose or poetry, of either fiction or non-fiction.
Any student in Year 5-12 can enter the What Matters? competition. - Storyathon: https://www.storyathon.com/?r=AU
STORYATHON is an exciting and free online event for Year 3 to Year 8 students from Australia and New Zealand. Students are challenged to write a story that is EXACTLY 100 words. - Dorethea Mackellar Poetry Competition
https://www.dorothea.com.au/How-to-Enter-awards
Entries accepted: March 1 to June 30, results announced during early September. - Heywire (Older Students: Text, video, photo or audio)
https://www.abc.net.au/heywire/ The Heywire Competition is open now and closes on Wednesday, September 16 2020. Must be a true story about you and/or your community. It might be a personal story about an aspect of your life, a challenge that you've overcome, something you'd like to change about your community, or simply why you like living where you do.
Listening
Fierce Girls: https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/fierce-girls/ - there’s a great little competition attached which ends soon. The prizes are magnificent. Take a look!
Some great news about #LitFest2444
We will be offering parts of our #LitFest2444 program free and online during Term 2. Our commissioned presenters and workshoppers were so keen to be involved, that many of them have begun their planning to bring their passion to the screen, at no cost to the participant. Stay tuned for more information about this exciting turn of events.
Hey Students! What Have You Found in the Online Learning World?
If you’ve come across an educational web site since the start of online learning that has been particularly interesting and stimulating for you, please let us know and flick the link our way. We’d love to share it.
Adjustments to the 2020 Term 2 Learning Enrichment Calendar
Incursions - Due to the current health climate we will be cancelling or postponing all Literacy Enrichment incursions booked for Term 2. Billing for these events had not come into effect.
Keep reading, writing, reflecting, composing, creating, musing and connecting.
The SJRC Lit Enrichment Team
