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Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Gr. 7 & 8 Read-a-thon held February 19th
Over 75 students spent the day in the LC reading for pleasure! They raised $1300 for new print resources for the library. Students played old school board games and watched a documentary on the sinking of the Empress of Ireland. Award-winning author, Caroline Pignat was our guest author and she spoke about writing process for creating her novel Unspeakable, written to commemorate the anniversary of the greatest marine tragedy of Canadian history.
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