25th August Book Week

Another Book Week over, well nearly. Unfortunately, one of our visiting authors had Covid, but we will catch up with this next week. Despite all the vitriol in newspapers over the last weeks, a good time was had at our combined Dress Up Parade and Grandparents Day. We made it easy for everyone this year. We dressed up as someone we admire or someone that you are dreaming of being when grown up. Teachers and students had been reading biographies, in particular the series, Little People Big Dreams. I dressed as Meg Lowman, the scientist in The Leaf Detective. Other teachers were Jane Goodall, David Attenborough, Coco Channel and Yayoi Kusama. Previously, Dr Vanessa Pirotta had visited for Science Week and inspired the children, so many of the students were scientists, but there were authors, artists, soccer players, dancers, singers, zookeepers, policemen and firefighters. There were no prizes, just plenty of recognition, talk about good people and high spirits and then the children took their grandparents off to their classroom for other activities, some of which included sharing and reading books.