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QUIZ MISSES REACH STATE FINALS
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assembled to compete in the ‘Sport of Reading’, having
qualified by winning the regional round.
Year 7 students Elise Lowe, Clare Stewart, Bronte
Secker and Grace Wesley formed a team to be reckoned
with and they are to be congratulated on their thorough
preparation, brilliant teamwork, extensive literary
knowledge and admirable courage. Their performance
was extraordinary and we are immensely proud of their
efforts!
The National Final consisted of five rounds of fourteen
questions each round. The Quizmaster from NZ, Wayne
Mills, would begin with obscure clues, then gradually
provide increasingly obvious details. Teams had to buzz
in as fast as possible to answer a question ahead of
other teams, earning two points for a correct answer
and losing one point for an incorrect answer.

Our team came out firing and were early leaders
but another team caught up on later rounds. At the
beginning of the fifth and final round, our girls were
10 points behind the leaders and ready to give it
everything. In that final round, the winning team scored
In June we were celebrating the success of our BMGS 0 while BMGS scored 8, binging our team nail-bitingly
nd
Kids’ Lit Quiz Team, who finished in 2 Place in the close to claiming the title!
National Final held at the State Library of NSW.
The girls were amazing ambassadors for our School,
The Kids’ Lit Quiz is an annual literature competition, drawing many favourable comments and compliments.
in which teams of four students, aged 10 to 14, work Sincere thanks to Dr Elissa Drew for her guidance and
together to answer wide-ranging literary questions. The coaching of this talented team, and congratulations to
winning team from each region competes in the national Bronte, Clare, Elise and Grace for their outstanding
final, and BMGS has enjoyed great success over the application to this challenge: an exciting and memorable
years competing at this level. journey!
This year, the top fifteen teams from around Australia Pictured above, Elise, Clare, Bronte and Grace.

READ, GROW, INSPIRE
READ , GR OW , INSPIRE
Who doesn’t love a parade?
Nothing excites our Junior students (and their
teachers!) more than the opportunity to dress
up and have fun and, when combined with their
love of learning through reading, the annual
Bookweek celebrations are just about the
‘bees knees’! (And bravo to all our parents who
produced outstanding costumes this year!)