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Student Council Promotional Group
BookWeek at Silverdale School the bookstore. On Tuesday, the teachers went into another class to read. Everyone enjoyed having the variety of different teachers visit their classrooms.
Silverdale School’s book week experience was great for all the different year groups from 0-8. We had a special event each day, to ensure that book week was interesting for everyone. For book week, the library was transformed into a bookstore, which was selling heaps of useful stuff like bookmarks, stationery and, obviously, books. On Monday, we had our book parade. This was when everyone dressed up as their favourite book characters, even the Teachers! At our parade, two people in each class got a spot prize. The spot prize was a $10 voucher to spend at
On Wednesday, Bruce Potter came in to Silverdale School. Bruce Potter is an accomplished illustrator and makes illustrated books. He held a show where he had the students use their imagination to create a creature. He would then take that creature and draw a picture about it. Bruce Potter also gave us a look at his newest book, Doodle Bug. You can check Bruce Potter’s website out at www.brucepotter.co.nz On Thursday, all the Student Council members read to the years 0-2s. The littlies really enjoyed this and found interest in the books. From the Student Council members Written By Connor Draper-Smith
ROWENAs Lunch The May outing of the ROWENAs (Retired Old Women Eating Out) took place on a beautiful sunny Thursday. Our venue was The Collins café and bar at Greenhithe. Twelve ladies attended and we did our usual car-sharing which works very well. On arrival, the drinks were ordered – all of these being either soft drinks, tea or coffee (my word, aren’t we very virtuous). After much perusing of the menu the decisions were made, with the choices being Eggs Benedict in various guises, Open Chicken Sandwich with Brie, and Sea Food Chowder. All the choices are to be recommended. Needless to say the chatter was in full flow; trying to get some of the ladies to own up to what they ordered was interesting as they were so engrossed in their conversations. I must admit I did feel a little sor-
ry for the other customers since, as you can imagine, 12 ladies in full flow can be rather noisy. The fun and friendship was wonderful as usual, and we are delighted to have a great group of ROWENA ladies.
