Guest Authors - Mark Greenwood and Ursula Dubosarsky with Andrew Joyner

The Year 5 & 6 students were extremely lucky to have a talk by the author Mark Greenwood. Mark is the author of 14 children's picture books with  historical themes. Some are for younger readers whilst others are better suited to older children because of their length and theme. Mark spoke about the stories to be found in Australian history and described how he goes about researching the history behind his books. He held all of us (teachers and children alike) spellbound with his true tales of adventure and bravery, ghosts and ill-fated fortune seekers.  The boys were truly engaged and hopefully came away with a new sense that history is interesting.

You can read more about Mark Greenwood and his work here


Over in the EY, students from Foundation to Year 4 were entertained by the author-illustrator team of Ursula Dubosarsky and Andrew Joyner.  Andrew used several students as his model which the children really enjoyed.
According to Shalain in Year 2 "people went up and he drew them but he turned them into koalas!"
Archie in Year 2  said "It was really good to see all the pictures he drew"
The students got to draw along with Andrew and Felicity Renaudin is organising a montage of their work to be displayed outside the art room in the EY building.

Michael Palmer models for the French koala

The finished product