Chariots of Fire

Name: Chariots of Fire

Date: 11th Sept

Completed by: Donna

Resources used:
Books: Jobs in Sport, Great Sporting Moments, Athletics, Australian Sport Through Time
Magazines: Men’s Health, Good Health
Videos/DVDs: Chariots of Fire (x2)

File names of information used in display: Information in blurbs taken from the Student Newsletter.

Comments or notes: Lots of student interest.

National Literacy Week

Name: National Literacy Week

Date: 1st-8th of September 2008

Completed by: Leo and Cindy

Resources used:
Books: The Adult Student’s Guide to Success
Easy reads: Rain Dance, 10,000 Leagues under the sea, Flander’s Fields, Animalia, Down at the Dump
Magazines: Choice, Cosmos, Wheels, Scoop
Talking books: Red Rabbit, The Shearing Shed, Breaker Morant, Da Vinci Code

Details of organisations contacted:
http://www.literacyandnumeracy.gov.au/

National Nutrition Week

Name: National Nutrition Week

Date: 13th-17th October

Completed by: Pam

Resources used:
Books: Very wellness : how to live better, live longer and resist illness, Nutrition for life, Heart food, Rosemary Stanton's healthy eating for Australian families, Hungry planet : what the world eats, Nutrition, Australian healthy shopping guide, Diet fads, Food and juice for health, Nutrition almanac, Health hazards of white sugar, Very wellness : how to live better, live longer and resist illness

Props: A fruit bowl with oranges.

Comments or notes: Very bright and colourful!!

Australian Music

Name: Australian Music

Date: 27th October-7th November

Completed by: Claire

Resources used:
Books: Countdown the wonder years, Don’t start me talking, Deadly sound, deadly places
Friday on my mind, AC/DC, The great Australian song book

DVDs: Delta Goodrem in concert, Odyssey Number Five (Great Australian Albums)

CDs: Reach out (Human Nature), Garma (Yothu Yindi), Gurrumal, I remember when I was young (John Farnham), Woodface (Crowded House), The secret life of… The Veronicas,
20,000 Watt RSL (Midnight Oil), A song is a city (Eskimo Joe), Feeler (Pete Murray)

File names of information used in display:
Up and coming Australian Musicans. Images taken from the Internet, including from Triple J’s website

Comments or notes: Pretty good if I do say so myself!! :)

National Recycling Week

Name: National Recycling Week

Date: 9th-15th November

Completed by: Sharon

Resources used:
Books: Recycling (Go Facts), Recycling (Fact Files), Reduce, reuse, recycle, Recycle, Household waste, Paper, Plastic, Recycling, Glass, Aliminium, Saving our planet, Recycle, reduce, reuse, rethink, Recycling; combatting the throwaway society, Waste, recycling and reuse.
DVD: Sunday: recycling myth
Video: Recycling waste
Magazine: New Scientist 20th October

Australian Christmas

Date: 17th-28th November
Completed by: Sharlene, Cindy & Donna

Resources used:

Books - A bush Christmas, Celebration of Christmas: music and carols, The Australian Christmas book, Things to make and do for Christmas, Christmas, The story of Christmas, Christmas unwrapped, 300 ways to make the best Christmas ever, Celebration of Christmas.

CD's: A Christmas carol by Charles Dickens, Celebration of Christmas.

File names of information used in the display: Images taken from the internet, Aussie Jingle Bells and A warm December night.

Details of organisations contacted (if applicable):

Comments or notes:

First post

Hello everyone :)

This is my first blog post on our new displays blog. I wanted to create this blog to post photos and information on our displays throughout the year. I'll do some more posts soon :)

Claire.