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Book Review: Drama Cuts and Drama Cuts Teacher’s Resource Book.
(Putney., Australia: Phoenix Education, 2010) ISBN 978 1 921586 27 9 Edited by Susan Battye. ISBN 978 1 921586 30 9 Written by Susan Battye By David O’Donnell: Victoria University of Wellington On a rainy winter’s afternoon in 2006 I attended … Continue reading
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Tagged Senior Secondary Drama
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Beyond the Edge Breaks NZ Box Office Records
The New Zealand Film Commission reports that the Sir Edmund Hillary epic Beyond The Edge has knocked off its own record, achieving the highest grossing opening weekend for any documentary in New Zealand. Written and directed by Leanne Pooley and … Continue reading
Posted in Media School Resources
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Theatre Set Construction
Looking to purchase some theatre set items such as: boxes, rostra, (oblong or triangles) free standing doors, flats or stairs constructed for your drama room? Need a stage set designed and constructed for your next school play? Let Drama Magic Ltd provide you … Continue reading
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Cup Magic and The Mine’s Afire! at Point Chevalier School
Last Thursday Students from three years 5 and 6 classes at Auckland’s Point Chevalier School, listened attentively, and asked intelligent questions as author, Susan Battye, read them extracts from her books Cup Magic and The Mine’s Afire! (co-written with Thelma Eakin). The presentation … Continue reading
Posted in Junior Ficton
Tagged historical novels, Junior Novels, Scholastic
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Congratulations to Eleanor Catton Man Booker Prize Winner
Manukau Institute of Technology teacher, Eleanor Catton, has become the youngest writer at age 28 to win the 2013 Man Booker Prize for Literature for her novel The Luminaries. She is the second New Zealander to win the award. The award was … Continue reading
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Paradox Books Features Cup Magic
Drama Magic congratulates Paradox Books in Devonport on Auckland’s North Shore for choosing to feature Cup Magic in its window display.
Welcome Home Emirates Team New Zealand
Dean Barker Skipper of Aotearoa in the 2013 America’s Cup greets crowd members at Shed 10 Yesterday Auckland welcomed Team New Zealand home from San Francisco. Shed 10 on the Auckland wharf was packed for the occasion during which Economic Development Minister, … Continue reading
Posted in Junior Ficton
Tagged America's Cup, Auckland sailing
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Save the School Journal
A campaign has been launched to Save the School Journal. This is worth supporting. Why? Simply because many of our leading writers cut their teeth on writing for the School Journal. The School Journal has been the cornerstone of Primary … Continue reading
America’s Cup 2013
The outcome of the America’s Cup challenge 2013 in San Francisco is not what New Zealand was expecting or had hoped for. But in the end skipper, Dean Barker, and indeed the whole of Emirates Team New Zealand have upheld the … Continue reading
Cup Magic Review (8)
Writing in the Weekend Herald Canvas Magazine Teen Reads column (September 7 2013) about Cup Magic by Susan Battye, reviewers Sue Baxelle & Isobel Marriner commented: “A timely read for intermediate age or younger teen, Cup Magic unveils a wealth … Continue reading
Posted in Junior Ficton
Tagged America's Cup, Book Review, historical novels, Junior Novels, Scholastic
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