| Book Week August 17 - 23, 2019 - Reading is My Secret Power | | http://www.spcthegap.qld.edu.au/news-and-events/Pages/Book-Week-August-17---23,-2019---Reading-is-My-Secret-Power.aspx | Book Week August 17 - 23, 2019 - Reading is My Secret Power | <h2 class="ms-rteElement-H2B">Book Week Speaker for Early Years – Lucia Masciullo</h2><p>Lucia is a freelance illustrator specialising in children's books.<img class="ms-rtePosition-2" alt="Book Week 2.png" src="/news-and-events/SiteAssets/Pages/Book-Week-August-17---23,-2019---Reading-is-My-Secret-Power/Book%20Week%202.png" style="margin:5px;" /></p><p>Since moving to Australia in 2007 Lucia has collaborated with Australian and English publishers and has illustrated fifteen books such as:<br>• Come Down Cat! (CBCA Honour Book and shortlisted in the Prime Minister's Award, 2012)<br>• Family Forest (CBCA shortlisted in 2011) and the successful series Our Australian Girl.</p><p>Lucia likes to create whimsical characters and dynamic compositions and she works with traditional techniques, mixing watercolour, pencil and acrylic.</p><p><a href="https://www.speakers-ink.com.au/speakers/lucia-mascuillo"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><font color="#0066cc">https://www.speakers-ink.com.au/speakers/lucia-mascuillo</font></span></a></p><h2 class="ms-rteElement-H2B">Book Week Speaker for Upper Primary – David Lovegrove</h2><p>David Lovegrove is a writer/illustrator and one of Australia’s best- known manga artists. He has also created manga stories and art for major corporations including Emirates Airlines, Cochlear Ltd (inventors of the bionic ear) and Daiso Australia (Japanese supermarket chain).</p><p>David's manga workshops for young people have been voted ‘Most popular workshop’ during Japan Week in Brisbane (for the Consulate General of Japan) and he has run hundreds of well attended workshops around Australia at literary festivals, schools and libraries.</p><p>As well as being a manga artist, David has some extraordinary gifts including being a genuine Master of Chinese Kung Fu and being able to draw with two hands at once!</p><a href="https://www.speakers-ink.com.au/speakers/david-lovegrove"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">https://www.speakers-ink.com.au/speakers/david-lovegrove</span></a><p> </p><p><img class="ms-rtePosition-3" alt="Book Week.jpg" src="/news-and-events/SiteAssets/Pages/Book-Week-August-17---23,-2019---Reading-is-My-Secret-Power/Book%20Week.jpg" style="margin:5px;width:659px;" /> </p><h2 class="ms-rteElement-H2B"><p> </p> </h2> | | | | |
| Writer in Residence 2019 – Term 1, Week 7 | | http://www.spcthegap.qld.edu.au/news-and-events/Pages/Book-Week-August-17---23,-2019---Reading-is-My-Secret-Power'.aspx | Writer in Residence 2019 – Term 1, Week 7 | <h4 class="ms-rteElement-H4B"><img class="ms-rtePosition-2" src="/Front%20Images/Aleesah%20Darlison.jpg" alt="" style="margin:5px;width:150px;height:189px;" /></h4><p>Aleesah Darlison is an award-winning Australian children's author who writes picture books, chapter books and novels. Her much-loved stories promote courage, understanding, anti-bullying, self-belief, friendship, teamwork and environmental themes. In 2015, Aleesah won the Environment Award for Children's Literature (Non-Fiction) for her picture book, <em>Our Class Tiger.</em> In 2012, she was shortlisted for the same award for her picture book, <em>Warambi.</em></p><p>Aleesah has written over forty-five books including<em> Stripes in the Forest: The Story of the Last Wild Thylacine, Awesome Animal Stories for Kids, </em>the <em>Netball Gems Series, </em>the <em>Unicorn Riders Series, </em>the <em>Totally Twins Series, Ash Rover: Keeper of the Phoenix, Little Good Wolf, Puggle's Problem, Catching Clouds, Little Meerkat, Spidery Iggy, </em>and <em>Mama and Hug.</em></p><p><a href="https://www.speakers-ink.com.au/speakers/aleesah-darlison"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">https://www.speakers-ink.com.au/speakers/aleesah-darlison</span></a></p><p> </p> | | | | |
| Open Day | | http://www.spcthegap.qld.edu.au/news-and-events/Pages/Open-Day-.aspx | Open Day | <p>On Thursday morning, February 28, we will host an open day for potential new families to St Peter Chanel School. <br>This is a wonderful opportunity for families in The Gap community and its surrounds, who are looking for a great school, to come and see teaching and learning in action, our contemporary facilities and spacious grounds. Tours will be provided by our senior students and members of staff, departing from the office at 9.00am and 9.45am.<img class="ms-rtePosition-2" src="/Front%20Images/Open%20Day.jpg" alt="" style="margin:5px;" /><br></p><p>Please RSVP by telephoning the school on 3300 1202 or emailing <a href="mailto:pthegap@bne.catholic.edu.au">pthegap@bne.catholic.edu.au</a></p> | | | | |
