Finigan School of Distance Education

Deputy Premier Prue Car is calling for student entries in the 2024 Minister for Education and Early Learning’s Christmas card competition.

The Minister’s Christmas card competition is a yearly event where the Minister for Education and Early Learning, Prue Car, invites students from Kindergarten to Year 6 to design the artwork for her Christmas card.

The theme this year is ‘My special Christmas memory’ and the three winning artists will have their artwork featured on the Minister’s 2024 Christmas card, receive a book pack and 20 copies of their card for their own use.

Runners-up will have their artwork featured on cards for Education Secretary Murat Dizdar and the Deputy Secretaries of the NSW Department of Education.

Submit artwork to mcc@det.nsw.edu.au by 5pm on 18 October 2024.

Winning artists will be notified by 1 November 2024 and will need to complete a Permission to Publish form.

For more information visit https://education.nsw.gov.au/news/latest-news/card-competition-a-chance-to-share-christmas-memories

Each year, the Children’s Book Council of Australia brings children and books together through Book Week. On Wednesday the 28th of August, at Finigan SDE, we took the opportunity to celebrate Book Week together in our unique online environment!

We had 104 participants at our whole-school assembly on Teams, which is our biggest assembly yet! It was exciting to see students represented across all year groups, all of whom joined us for a lot of fun and frivolity throughout the morning. This was made even better, when they shared their love of specific characters, books, or series with each other, by using their microphones or posting in the fast-moving chat pod.

We held our ‘virtual costume parade’ with both staff and students at our assembly. It was fantastic to see everyone share their outfits, and we even spotted some magical backgrounds featured as well.

Just a reminder that the Finigan library is always open, even when school is closed. You can always access the digital platform of eBooks and Audiobooks, with new releases monthly.

Go directly to: https://finigan.wheelers.co/

You can download the ePlatform and read from any device.

Or you can browse and borrow eBooks as well as Audiobooks through the ‘My School Library’ Oliver system on your student portal.

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