This week we bring you news from our middle school English students. Steph Macdonald and Brock Perks have been working with enthusiastic writers including Isabeau Turner (7.1), who had this to say about Writing Club:

Every second Friday, a group of writers and book lovers alike meet in the library for Writing Club. We discuss ideas, enter competitions, talk about our favourite books and share pieces and stories we've been working on recently. It's a great way to get peer and teacher support on our writing and to meet new people with similar interests to us.

Congratulations to all our passionate thinkers and writers who are making their mark on the world through Writing Club!

Late last term, Year 7s went to Showbiz Cinemas to see the film Blueback. Greta Kelynack (7.5) wrote the following review:

Blueback is a family drama based on the 1997 novella, by Tim Winton. Directed by Robert Connelly, the film follows the life of Abby (Mia Wasikowska) who befriends a wild blue groper. Abby and her mother Dora (Radha Mitchell) come into conflict with a group who is led by Costello (Erik Thomson) who has no respect for conservation of native life.

Abby’s friendship with the groper gives her connection with the ocean and she works out, it’s her life’s work to protect not only Longboat Bay, where the film is set, but international waters too.

While the book was slow moving, the movie was faster. It was a gentle film but its message to us, as custodians of the land, was that we need to take care of the environment. We all do.

Our Year 7s continue to write passionately about the environment in a persuasive piece for their next Assessment Task.