Adventures in the Library
Book Week 2020 Theme: Curious Creatures, Wild Minds
The highlight of Book Week this year was the annual Dress-up Day and parade. It is always exciting watching the anticipation of the students in the lead up to the event. And so it was that on a glorious warm sunny spring morning, the Curious Creatures and Wild Minds of Hawker Area School and Kindy paraded around the school grounds and into the Multipurpose Room to the sounds of the jungle and other wild music. Before the winners of the competition were announced, the students worked in groups to discover some of the items that have been invented by Australians over the years, such as improving the hand tool for sheep shearing (David Unaipon), developing spray on skin for burn patients (Fiona Wood) and Vegemite (Cyril P Callister).
The winners of the Dress-up Parade Competition are…
Most Creative Costume: Student-Will Du Bois; Adult-Florence Galarita
Most Glamorous Costume: Student-Ivy Smart; Adult Bobbi Hatley
Most Unique Costume: Student: Ollie Du Bois; Adult Esther Eager
Most Original Costume: Student-Jim Johnson; Adult: Harald Walther
Most Interesting Costume: Student-Tayla McInnis; Adult: Ailsa Green
Most Colourful Costume: Students: Noah and Eden Merchant; Adult: Taleeya Oakey
Most Elaborate Costume: Student: Jimmy Morgan; Adult(family): Kat, Rowan and Fin Bevan
Most Inspirational Costume: Student: Ruby Johnson; Adult: Leonie McKenzie
Each of the student winners has received a voucher for use at the Scholastic Book Fair, which will be held in Week 3 of this Term.
A big thank you to Steve Green for setting up and manning the sound system so that we could have the music playing, to Bek O’Neill for her great photos, to Leonie McKenzie and Harald Walther for judging the competition (no easy task), to Deborah Bayley and Vai Uran for presenting the Acknowledgement to Country and to all who attended and supported the event. It is very much appreciated.
Photos taken by Rebekah O'Neill.
In our last newsletter, I shared about the work the Year F-5 students were doing in 3D design using the iPad app Maker’s Empire. The brief for the students was to design a toy or gadget that a child their age could take to Mars. This competition is open to anyone under the age of 18 within South Australia. The most creative, useful and cool designs will feature in a public exhibition at the MOD. (Museum of Discovery) in November.
I am excited to announce that the toy/gadget designed by Jimmy Morgan will be part of that display.
Jimmy named his creation ‘Fix Bot’. This is his explanation of how it works: “The ‘fix bot’ enables you to program it to make screws with the iron fillings to fix stuff. It poops out screws. It also has a remote, so it comes to you.
Congratulations Jimmy.
The exhibition is open from the 23 Oct to 28 November on the Ground Level and Level 1 of the MOD., which is on North Terrace, Adelaide, adjacent to the Morphett St. Bridge. Entry is free. Click on this link to find out more information.