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=**Welcome to the Leeming Senior High School English Department!**=

This site is intended to be a 'go to' point for all staff, parents and students and will include key links to each of the Department's Wikis, calendars and any other relevant information. This site is UNDER CONSTRUCTION - so please be patient! We intend to make it as useful as we can!

[|Leeming Senior High School]

**Meet Claudia Gray**
=**National Year of Reading** = 2012 promises lots of excitement: it's the Chinese Year of the Dragon, the Australian Year of the Farmer, and best of all, the National Year of Reading! Please find the link to Walker Books and make sure you follow their new Year of Reading blog, Walk-A-Book, launched with a special guest post from Year of Reading National Ambassador, Christopher Cheng. They're looking for guest bloggers, so if you're interested in taking part, please see their "National Year of Reading" section on their website [links to follow]. [] [] Claudia Gray, author of the international best-selling Evernight series is visiting Perth
 * Claudia Gray is an internationally famous, best-selling author, known for her Evernight series and she will be visiting Perth very soon. She will be visiting the City of Melville Library:**
 * Date: Thursday, 22 March 2012**
 * Time: 6.00 to 7.30pm**
 * Venue: AH Bracks Library, corner Stock Road and Canning Highway, Melville**
 * Cost: Free**
 * Bookings: ESSENTIAL. PHONE: 9364 0115**

Dicken's Birthday


Dickens 2012 is an international celebration of the life and work of Charles Dickens to mark the bicentenary of his birth, which falls on 7 February 2012. Institutions and organisations from all over the world are partners of Dickens 2012 and work together to deliver a programme of events and activities to commemorate this very special anniversary. Although a writer from the Victorian era, Dickens�s work transcends his time, language and culture. He remains a massive contemporary influence throughout the world and his writings continue to inspire film, TV, art, literature, artists and academia. Dickens 2012 sees a rich and diverse programme of events taking place in the run up and throughout the whole of 2012. Please go to [] for more information



In honour of Dickens, the Stage 3 classes will include his novel 'Great Expectations' in their reading list. The novel can be downloaded from a number of websites and is readily available in books stores. We anticipate great interest in his other works as a result of this exposure.

=COMPETITIONS =

To support both the 2012 Tim Winton Award for Young Writers and the SeanTan Award for Young Artists, the English Department of Leeming Senior High School intend to run an in-house competition. All competition entries will be collected English teachers and copied before being delivered to the Subiaco Library for competition submission. The copies will be read by a panel of teachers and a $50 prize will be awarded to the top entry for each of the Tim Winton Writing and Sean Tan Artistry Competitions as judged by the panel. Entries must be submitted to English Teachers by May 18 2012 to be eligible.

Tim Winton Writing Competition

The Tim Winton Writing Competition has just been announced for 2012 Students at Leeming Senior High School have been encouraged to participate by preparing an entry which meets competition guidelines. Leeming Senior High School English Department intend to ensure that our students have every opportunity to participate in this prestigious competition and prepare a competition entry. For the Year 8 AEP Class [Mrs Longmire] this will be considered a compulsory task and an assessment point.

Sean Tan Award for Young Artists Sean Tan is an acclaimed artist and writer who grew up in Perth, attending Primary School in the Northern Suburbs [Lymburner Primary School and then Balcatta Senior High School] before working as an architect. He put his talent to work on creating stunning picture books and this resulted in an Oscar win for his work on //The Lost Thing//. This new competition aims to encourage other young artists to follow in his footsteps and the English Department will do everything we can to support the development of talent in this area. The competition entries for both these competitions will be gathered in the English Department and will be delivered to the Subiaco Library by the required date. Students are encouraged to approach their teacher for a competition entry form.

Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Competition The Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Competition is also open for contributions. The site for that is : []

The closing date for entries is : 30 JUNE 2012

**English Teachers Links**
Necessary Link for English Teachers: Curriculum Council Curriculum Information [|Curriculum Council English Documents]

English Teachers Association [|ETA]

Australian Literacy Educators Assocation [|ALEA]

Australian Association for the Teaching of English [|AATE]

For GIFTED EDUCATION RESOURCES [|The Gifted and Talented Children's Association of Western Australia]

English Teachers' Wikis
Mrs Leanne Longmire, Level 3 Classroom Teacher, **Head of Department English** http://longmireyear8.wikispaces.com/ http://longmirestage1english.wikispaces.com/ http://longmirestage3english.wikispaces.com/

Mrs Sally Burgess, Classroom Teacher, English and Literature, Special Responsibility: Students at Educational Risk

Mr Stephen Faulds, Classroom Teacher, Author http://fauldsenglish.wikispaces.com/

Ms Marisa Lovatt, Level 3 Classroom Teacher, **Special Responsibility:** Academic Extension Program

Mr Chris Mancini, Classroom Teacher, **Special Responsibility:** Technology in the Classroom http://mancinieng.wikispaces.com

Mr Miles Nelson, Level 3 Classroom Teacher, **Special Responsibility:** Student Council

Mrs Deborah Van Der Gaag, Classroom Teacher, **Special Responsibility:** Senior School Advisor

Ms Phil Whitton, Classroom Teacher

Wikis for Each Unit

Year 8

Year 9

Year 10

Upper School- Stage 1

Upper School- Stage 2

Upper School- Stage 3 toc