Write a Book in a Day - Melton Campus

The Alexandria Resource Centre was buzzing last Wednesday as Melton Campus students participated in our major Book Week activity, the annual Write a Book in a Day competition. 

During an arduous 12 hours, students worked furiously to meet the deadline to ensure their books were ready to be published online and eligible for judging in the national competition. The finished books, which you can read below, will be available in a digital library to help entertain children in hospitals around Australia.

Melton Campus Team 1 2023 - Behind the Mask

Melton Campus Team 2 2023 - What If

Melton Campus Team 3 2023 - Billy Roo

Melton Campus Team 4 2023 - Adventures of a Rad Lad

Here’s how Year 10 student Alanis summed up the day:

“WABIAD was an incredible experience to be a part of to develop collaboration and literacy skills and raise funds for a fantastic cause.

"We all formed teams of up to ten writers and illustrators, and we started by receiving our team's list of parameters and random words to include. We spent the morning planning and discussing the plot of our story, and then the fun started - the writing!

"All teams spent hours meticulously working on their stories and drawings. Towards the end of the day, we were treated to a pizza dinner and hot chocolates (shout out to Mr Woolmer!) as we edited and formatted our pieces.

"My team and I had so much fun creating a really random story that we hope kids across the country will enjoy during the hardest time in their lives. Our book Adventures of a Rad Lad is about a teenager who goes on a mysterious journey across Highpoint Shopping Centre. During his adventure, he receives poetic prophecies from an alluring fortune-teller, a swaggy hip-hop dancer and a disgraced pet shop owner that eventually leads him to find an unwanted truth from the person he least expects!”

A huge congratulations to all the students who competed on the day, not just for achieving their goal to write a book in a day, but also for their phenomenal fundraising efforts.

So far, St Francis Catholic College teams have raised an incredible $3464 for The Kids Cancer Project, funds that will go toward childhood cancer research to find better treatments and ultimately a cure.

We look forward to seeing our Cobblebank students’ work next week and wish them well for their event tomorrow!

You can still donate to all our teams here:

Melton Campus Teams

Support SFCC Melton 1

Bernice Acabel, Paige Cauchi, Gabrielle Pilapil, Jessica Sultana, Angelynne Gonzaga, Isabella Sestoso, Lorebeth Paler and Shreeya Prasad

Support SFCC Melton 2

Renee Furtado, Olivia Cunningham, Abuk Ngong, Hayden Hausfeld, Alisha Day, Raphael Guillaumier, Cecila Bui, Marla Moakkad

Support SFCC Melton 3

Edie Todd, Lily Maguire, Maddy Whelan, Abbey Honig, Erin Johnstone, Alannah Trovato, Bella Waters, Sienna Brown, Grace Cordell

Support SFCC Melton 4

Olivia Emin, Karina Delgadillo, Alanis Furtado, Alice Summers, Monica Teichelman, Addison McKellar, Tra My Nguyen, Jackamos Lillyst

Cobblebank Campus Teams

Support SFCC Cobblebank 1

Reejh Bhullar, Taranveer Dhaliwal, Harshpreet Gill, Ayush Sehgal, Kritika Sharma

Support SFCC Cobblebank 2

Senadee Dharmaratne, Ellie Merrington, Demitri Ong, Gurnoor Rai, Kanwar Sidhu, Liam Teh, Achrai Virk