Newcastle ESOL students who wrote wonderful stories about growing up in their home countries and about their arrival in Australia, all went into a competition. Prizes were presented during a morning tea given by Newcastle Library Staff.
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Valuing Diversity Competition 2013
You can win an IPAD or an Ipod Nano in the new Valuing Diversity at TAFE competition.
Can you : Draw? Design? Create? Write? Perform? Film? Or Animate? Then get cracking on an item you can develop that celebrates the wide cultural nature of our students and staff here in Hunter TAFE. Competition opens on March 20th– closes on May 17th. More details online at
http://hunter.tafensw.edu.au/Libraries-and-Resources/Pages/Libraries_Overview.aspx
Entries can be dropped off at your local campus Library, Counselling Unit or at the Student Association Bookshop at Newcastle Campus. Or, you can send your entries via email (see poster).
Maitland ESOL and CSE students “Love to read”
Love 2 Read is the official logo of the National Year of Reading and now the Maitland Tafe’s library’s entrance is brightened with flowers, each petal adorned with scripts including Javanese, Urdu, Polish, Tagalog, Telagu, Japanese, Arabic, Farsi/Persian, Serbian, Spanish, Indonesian, and Mandarin.
Yes, students have translated the 10 National Year of Reading words: laugh, grow, explore, question, discover, cry, feel, think, escape and dream into their first languages but more importantly have read books in English and written their own book reviews. One comment was, ‘Wow, it’s the first time I’ve read a whole book.” Another, “ I like to learn the handsome frog story with I love you” sums up how books have made us learn and laugh our way through some great reads.
Congratulations to all who participated and to our lucky winners.
“Big up” to teachers, Jenny Vaupel, Helen Boland and Jude Markey for their enthusiastic involvement.
