Motueka Library Book Quiz Tuesday, May 31 2011

Motueka South Curious Cobras

A wicked pirate captain and a ‘unsuspecting’ damsel

Jubliant winners the Mapua Radical Readers

Motueka Library held its second annual book quiz for year 5 & 6 students. Eighty-four students from 12 Motueka/Moutere schools participated in the quiz on Wednesday 25th May. It was a fantastic few hours which started with a costume parade. Many teams dressed up. There were a lot of pirates, also kiwis, mermaids, Pippi Longstocking and friends, Harry Potter, Cool Cats, Mad Monkeys, Novel Nerds, ballerinas, knights, princesses, a horse, mice and more. The parade was followed by a muffin and a juice which was kindly donated by Motueka New World. New World manager Shelley Miller judged and presented the prizes for Best Costumes, which included Motueka State Cinema vouchers, Warehouse vouchers and Toad Hall ice-cream vouchers.

The quiz consisted of four rounds of ten questions each. Three rounds were based on NZ Post Children award finalists, Finnigan and the pirates by Sherryl Jordan, The Haystack by Jack Lasenby, and Sensational Survivors by Sandra Morris. The fourth round was based on popular series books and famous authors. We had a vote for the favourite book and interestingly, it was fairly even. Winners of spot questions between the rounds won books that had been donated by publishers, Random House, Scholastic and Hachette.

Local English/Drama teacher Bashan King was a fabulous Quiz Master for the event. A superb group of Motueka High School students helped with marking, time-keeping and (thankfully) tidying up.

The winners were Mapua Radical Readers scoring a most impressive 39/40!!! And they were also the winners last year. Runner up was another Mapua team, the Novel Nerds and close behind in third place was Motueka South Curious Cobras. 1st and 2nd place winners received giftcards from TakeNote Motueka.

All the participants received a video voucher thanks to the wonderful generosity of Motueka Video Ezy.

Quiz Master Bashan King and Mrs Dainty (aka Sue)

It was a very successful event and would not be possible without the help and support of all the staff here at Motueka, so a big thank you from me.

More wonderful photos are available for viewing on the librarydrive/Motueka Library/Photos/Motueka Book Quiz 2011

Mary

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Motueka Public Library Book Quiz Thursday, Jun 17 2010

The Winners Mapua Crocodiles

Upper Moutere The Amazing Authors

Tracy Duncan reading out the questions

Helen doing the scoring

Upper Moutere The Rapid Readers

Sue and the markers

Prize table

There were elephants, crocodiles, bees, gangsters, blueberries, raspberries, funky bananas, Amazing Authors dressed as witches, a Dalmatian dog, a wolf, Goldilocks and the three little bears, and more. 100 excited yr 5 & 6 students, teachers and parents arrived at the Memorial Hall on a fine and frosty morning (I turned the heaters on in the hall at 6.30am to warm it up!) to compete in a 4 round book quiz. Each round had 10 questions. 3 of the rounds were based on NZ Post Book Children’s award finalists; Friends: Snake and Lizard by Joy Cowley, Sting by Raymond Huber and E3 Call Home by Janet Hunt. The 4th round was general book knowledge.

Local Artist, Author and Illustrator Tracy Duncan did a marvellous job as being question reader. Heather from Richmond read out many spot questions between the rounds and took lots of photos. We had a great group of yr 10 students from Motueka High School who were markers, runners and timekeeper and they stayed and helped pack up the hall which was brilliant, (those table are heavy, especially the old trestle ones from under the stage). Parklands School lent us their sound system.

The generosity from local businesses helped make this a very successful event. New World sponsored the ‘breakfast snack’ of muffins and juice, all the chocolate muffins went first (no surprise there!). Motueka TakeNote donated first prize 4x $30 giftcards, runner-up and this was a draw, 8x $20 giftcards and a $50 gift card to the winning school. Video Ezy donated over 100 video vouchers so every participant received something. There were other vouchers from Subway, McDonalds, United Video, State Cinema Motueka, some books from Paperplus. A $200 donation from the Nelson Reading Association bought lots of books to be used as spot prizes. Also, books were received from Random Press and Gecko Press. Peter Canton at The Cobbler Shop donated the engraving. Clever Sue Hovenden made the book trophy.

The competition was very close. Mapua Crocodiles took out 1st prize and the Motueka Public Library Book Trophy. 2nd place equal was Riwaka Funky Bananas and Mapua Leopards. It was certainly nerve wrecking and we all learned a lot from organising it and look forward to improving it next year. Overall it was a great event. The atomsphere was fantastic and how wonderful to see so many kids enthusiastic about reading and books. What a buzz!
We received a lot of very positive comments from teachers, parents and the kids on what a great thing it was to do. One of the teachers said that her students were buzzing afterwards, the older students wanted to enter the Lit Quiz in Nelson next year and the school would definitely be keen to send teams to our quiz next year.

Mary

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