Write a Book in a Day
To celebrate Book Week, 4 teams represented Kalamunda Senior High School in the annual Write a Book in a Day competition. The fundraiser is run by the Kid’s Cancer Project, and this is the 7th year Kalamunda has entered. The teams of 10 arrived at school at 7.45am on Tuesday 23 August and spent the day creating their stories in the library. The 40 participants had 12 hours to write and illustrate their stories following parameters set by the competition. This was a record number of students involved and is excited to see this event grow every year. The quality of the books is outstanding and are on display in the library. The Year 10 team Redacted, who won the 2021 WA and National Award for Best Illustrations for the middle school (Year 7 to 9) category were competing again. They published their novel 'Alien Feeling'. The other three teams were The Best Ones who published 'Crash Landed,' The Random Kiddos published 'The Travelling Circus' and Kalbrook completed their book 'Clowns, Rabbits and Catastrophes'. The event is an exciting collaboration between the English and Arts Departments and was led by Orietta Stokes and Claire Eden. The day was a terrific success and thank you to those other staff members who assisted including Sarah Adams, Nicolee McNally, Tracy Sutton, The Library team, Karen Stuart, Grace Oorschot and the cleaning staff. It was an exciting finish, but all students left with a copy of their book. They should be so proud of their effort and the excellent standard of their texts.
English Teacher