Book Week Wrap Up

After wrapping up our Book Fair, with a phenomenal amount of money raised for the library, we continued our celebrations during Book Week last week. We started the week with a fantastic parade with so many great Book Character costumes. The students and staff looked incredible and all the effort put in was really worth it on the day.

After the parade, students ADVENTURED through three activities in multi-age groups. This was a fantastic opportunity for the students to work with a range of students from a variety of year levels and work with different teachers. 

The activities they got to participate in included, using the shortlisted book, ‘Spiro’ as inspiration to weave a web, going on an adventure around the school to find the shortlisted books to solve a puzzle in their passports and folding a paper boat to get and elephant across the ‘harbour’, just like in the shortlisted book, “How to Move a Zoo.” It was a glorious day outside and all the students were enthusiastic and engaged. 

After second break, students got to spend some time with their buddy classes doing some shared reading. It was so lovely to see the older students sharing their love of books with the younger ones. 

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We continued to celebrate books with a visit to all classes from the awesome David

Conley. David talked about his books and the process of writing and publishing and then completed a very entertaining drawing workshop with each class. The students were very engaged and excited and came away with lots of new drawing skills and a few were keen to become authors and illustrators themselves! See the review from Year 5 below.

David Conley, an illustrator author, came to St Joseph's and taught us a lot of cool drawings. David showed us how to make details more realistic and the characteristics of bushes, clouds and grass. He taught us how to draw sausage people, the reputation of drawing, and how to make different angles with faces. My favourite part probably was drawing the detailed animals because of how much easier it was to draw the animals. This is why this activity was a fun experience.

Rishaan

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We finished up the week with our Reading Buddies. Thank you to the families that sent in money to raise funds for the Story Dogs program.

It was such a fun, book-filled week that both the students and teachers enjoyed and I’d like to thank all our families for their support and enthusiasm throughout the week.