The Junior School will be celebrating Book Week next week beginning with a parade on Monday. We have invited students from P-6 to come to College wearing a costume representing a favourite character, or bringing a prop that represents a book or character they love.
The theme for Book Week is Read – Grow – Inspire. What books did you read as a child that helped you grow, and inspired you to imagine and read some more? This weekend, as your child creates the costume or finds the prop to bring on Monday, tell them about your favourite books as a child. Hearing these shared stories helps all our students grow in their love of reading, but also helps inspire a wider interest of the world around them.
Each year during Book Week, the Children’s Book Council of Australia announce the winners of each section of books – Older Readers, Younger Readers, Early Childhood and Picture Book of the Year. Look at the winners and honour books at this link: https://cbca.org.au/winners-2023
Go to the local library and borrow some of these fabulous books. Read them together with your children. Discuss the wonderful characters, share new words, discuss the big ideas of the books.
This will help all our student to Read – Grow – and be Inspired.