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Driver Messenger

Details:

Title

Driver Messenger

Other title

Driver Primary School newsletter

Creator

Driver Primary School

Collection

Driver Messenger; E-Journals; PublicationNT; Driver Primary School newsletter

Date

2018-09-13

Location

Driver

Notes

Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).; This publication contains many links to external sites. These external sites may no longer be active.

Language

English

Subject

Driver Primary School; Education, Primary; Primary schools; Palmerston (N.T.); Periodicals

Publisher name

Northern Territory Government

Place of publication

Palmerston

Series

Driver Primary School newsletter

Volume

Newsletter, 13 September 2018

Now known as

Driver Digest

Previously known as

Driver Primary School Newsletter; Driver News

File type

application/pdf

Use

Attribution International 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)

Copyright owner

Northern Territory Government

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/304489

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/363551

Page content

Driver Messenger 13 September 2018 Driver Messenger 13 September 2018.htm[19/09/2018 12:24:32 PM] and Rural schools. Students from Driver Primary School eagerly participated in all categories, entering poetry, short stories & comics. The festival also included writing workshops, competition presentations and concluded with a POW (Palmerston Own Writers) Performance, where competition winners were invited to read their own stories & poems with writers from the Palmerston Own Writers group who were the competition judges. This festival would not have been possible if it wasnt for the organisation of Lesley Colling from Durack Primary School. We have enjoyed working with Lesley again to make this years event a success. A special mention should also go out to Mrs Hansen who once again co-ordinated our Driver Primary entries & supported our writers at the workshops & to read their writing at the evening event. Writing Workshop As part of our recent writing focus, some Year 4/5 students participated in a 2-hour writing workshop at school with published author, Johanna Bell. Johanna Bells picture book, Go Home Cheeky Animals was the winner of the Childrens Book Council Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year (Early Childhood) 2017. Johanna shared how she worked with Dion Beasley, who has muscular dystrophy and profound deafness. Dion uses drawing to expresses observations, ideas, dreams and childhood memories. He loves creating works that feature Canteen Creek (his fathers country) and the antics of Tennant Creeks many camp dogs where he now resides. In the workshop with Johanna, students learnt the 4 secret ingredients of a great story.