Welcome Back

Welcome back!  Hopefully everyone had an opportunity to squeeze in some reading during their break.

The Library is a busy time during Term 3 as we get ready to celebrate Australian children’s literature during Book Week which is held during the last week of August.  Students from across the school will have the opportunity to create items to decorate the Library as part of our “Book an Adventure” displays in the lead up to Book Week. 

Book Week

Our annual Book Week celebrations are scheduled for 18^th – 22^nd of August. 

We have planned some exciting activities to help us celebrate Book Week.  Our Character Costume Parade will be held on Wednesday the 20^st of August from 9:15 a.m. on the oval.

This year we would like to continue to acknowledge more of the students who make the effort to come along in a book themed costume.  The goal of our costume parade is to build excitement in children’s literature and to encourage maximum participation in Book Week.  This year, each student who participates in our costume parade will have their name put into a lucky draw to win a book prize.  There will be one book prize per class.  We will still have certificates acknowledging costumes that align with our fun categories and this year’s theme “Book an Adventure”.

We cannot wait to see all the awesome costumes!  Students are welcome to come and work in the maker space on Fridays at first break to create costume elements (e.g. a mask, a crown, etc) in preparation for the costume parade in August.

We also have some fun competitions for students to enter as part of our Book Week celebrations.  Students can visit the Library for more information and entry forms.  Prizes will be presented during Book Week.

This year, as part of the theme “Book an Adventure”, all students will be issued with a reading passport.  Students can earn stamps for their passport by borrowing books or participating in Library activities.  There are three different stamps that can be earned and each time a student has earned two of each stamp they can enter our weekly prize draw. 

We also have Meerkat Productions returning to perform a live-action retelling of two of the books that have been nominated to win prizes during Book Week.  This year’s books are “The Garden of Broken Things” for Prep – Year 3 students and “Small Acts” for Year 4 – Year 6 students.  We hope everyone can join us for these events.  Invoices for payment for students to attend these shows will be sent to families in the coming weeks.

During Book Week each year the Children’s Book Council of Australia award prizes to Australian authors in 6 different categories.  This year’s shortlisted books for the Early Childhood Book of the Year and Picture Book of the Year categories are shown below.  

Our pick from the Early Childhood category is “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Tooth Fairy: (and Some Things You Didn’t)”.  This book is filled with fun details on how Tooth Fairies are able to do their job, what makes Tooth Fairies so magical, and what they do with all of those teeth!  The book also has a simple costume idea for our character costume parade – come as a tooth fairy wearing your pyjamas and fairy wings (remember your comfy socks).

Premier's Reading Challenge

The Premier’s Reading Challenge for 2025 is still running.    To complete the challenge students in Prep – Year 4 need to read 20 books, and students in Year 5 and Year 6 need to read 15 books.  Reading record sheets are available from class teachers and from the Library.

Sports captains will resume counting class reading tallies this week.

Have a Great Week

Mrs Wilkinson