What an AMAZING end to Book Week! We have been so blessed and privileged to continue with our Annual Book Week festivities as well as incorporating a literature festival into the mix!
Our Class parades on Monday and Friday were spectacular, with all the students (and parents) putting in so much effort and creativity into their costumes. It was so clear from our multiple winners in each category that judging is extremely difficult. All the students should be so proud of themselves and start thinking about their costumes for next year.
Our Morning tea’s for all the prize winners included cupcakes, cordial and free scholastic book prizes! All well deserved.
The literature festival was extremely successful and we cannot wait to do it all again next year. We hope your children came home and discussed the workshops they had with Corinne Fenton, Claire Saxby, and George Ivanoff, especially if they were in Junior or Middle School. Claire and George shared some excerpts from their new and not yet released works! Needless to say there are no available books by either of them to borrow for a few weeks!
Our Senior school students were treated to Abe Nouk, an incredibly vibrant and inspiring Slam Poet. He engaged and encouraged them to not treat life as a fairy tale but have faith to believe that what you dream can become a reality. His workshops challenged student perspective, encouraging them to use various sentence starters in order to produce thought provoking letters to their younger and future selves. His focus on life, faith and literacy were visible and clear. Who knows? Any of these drafts could become published works in the future!
Years 6 and 8 were in hysterics from the very first minute with Stig Wymss (most loved narrator of Bolinda Audio Books) performed his wildly entertaining; ‘Stig! live @ the library’. The students were enthralled by his every word and they amazed us with their confidence to be involved in the presentation. His rendition of ‘Chubby Bubby’ had students in stitches and the hour he was with us was not long enough.
More posts to come in the next few weeks! We encourage you to discuss the workshops and presentations with your children as they are all fantastic learning and development opportunities for them. Develop creative story writing with them from the junior workshops, or poetry writing from Abe, or even simple oral presentation skills that they might have picked up from Stig. The possibilities are endless!
You can see more of our photos from the Parades and the entire week in our Gallery!
Happy Reading,
The DC Team
