On March 20, 21 and 22 Newington College will host the 6th biennial Literature Festival across all three campuses.

Here at Lindfield our celebrations will reflect the sesquicentenary milestone of the College with a variety of authors and presenters interacting with the students. Archimede Fusillo, Oliver Phommavanh, Richard Tulloch, Felice Arena, Michael Gerard Bauer and Jeni Mawter will all work with the students across the three days of the festival. Students will play with poetry in a workshop with Miles Merrill and Stage 3 students will participate in a writing workshop with Jeni Mawter.

Some favourite activities will be included in our celebrations – a Spelling Bee, the old fashioned way, a Trivia Quiz with teachers setting questions about learning, and a Book Parade.

The Book Parade will focus on characters from classic literature. In library sessions discussions have commenced with what makes a story a classic and this has started the students thinking about potential book characters they would like to represent at our parade on Friday 22 March at 9am.

Visiting authors will be happy to sign copies of their published works. However, we will not have them on sale at school at the time of the Literature Festival.

 Sue Gough
School Librarian