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IN THE JUNIOR SCHOOL

2021 KIDS’ LIT QUIZ
2021 KIDS’ LIT QUIZ
BMGS fielded four teams in the recent NSW Heats BMGS World Finalists Emily Colbran (Year 10) and
of the Kids’ Lit Quiz, a global competition testing the Oliver Drew (Year 10).
breadth and depth of students’ literary knowledge. Our two Junior School teams contested the
Covering a diverse range of genres, from mythology Central West Heat on 26 May. They embraced
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to fantasy, folktales to science fiction and everything the demands of the competition with energy and
in between, the quiz presents 100 previously determination, and performed brilliantly! BMGS
unseen questions in ten categories. With COVID Blue (Year 6 students Hester Kinnear, Elise
restrictions still in place at many venues, all of our Lowe, Clare Stewart and Jessica Crambrook)
teams competed in Virtual Heats, logging into Zoom demonstrated great flexibility when Jess was
and submitting their answers via Socrative. required to step in as a reserve at the last minute,
Our two Senior School teams contested the largest in the absence of another team member, and was
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Virtual Heat in NSW/ACT on 21 May. BMGS 1 a great asset to the team. The team’s excellent
(Year 7 students Liam Baker, Winnie Chen, Charlie collaboration skills and knowledge of wide-ranging
Monks and Alex Stewart) top scored on the Fantasy literature saw them finish as the third best Primary
round, and BMGS 2 (Year 8 students Eric Downes, school team on the day, in 6 place overall.
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Nick Hurley, Clementine Macarthur and Maggie Teams are invited to choose a “Joker round” at
Vivian) earned a perfect score on the ‘Food’ round, the beginning of the day, when the topics for the
winning in a tie-break at lightning speed! Up rounds are first revealed. A team’s score on their
against several of the bigger Sydney schools, our chosen Joker round is doubled. BMGS Gold (Year
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teams performed superbly, finishing in 6 and 7 6 students Amelie Emmerson, Ainsley Ferguson,
places in a very strong field of 36 teams. The final Simeon Gee and Charlotte Scott) selected the
scores were extremely close, with only four points ‘Animals’ round, and proceeded to achieve a perfect
separating 2 and 6 ! These teams are to be score, thus doubling their score to 20, which made
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congratulated on their enthusiasm and commitment for a very positive start! BMGS Gold went on to
in preparing for the competition. become the 1 placed Primary school team in the
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The Senior teams were supported by past Central West Region, and in 3 place overall.
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Above left: Senior KLQ teams: Liam Baker, Alex Stewart, Charlie Monks, Winnie Chen, Clem Macarthur, Nicholas Hurley, Eric
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Downes and Maggie Vivian. Above right: Junior teams in action online in the Junior School’s Library Resource Centre.
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2021 JUNIOR SCHOOL
2021 JUNIOR SCHOOL
LEADERSHIP TEAM
LEADERSHIP TEAM
This year, Mr Nigel Cockington,
Head of Junior School, inducted
Year 6 students Hunter Costigan
and Audrey Smith as Junior
School Captains (Wentworth
Falls, pictured right) and Year
4 students Rose Cottle and
Thomas Hyslop as Campus
Leaders (Springwood, pictured
far right).