Library News

Book Week

Book Week commences every year with the announcement of the Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Book of the Year Awards. Over this term, students in Years P-6 have been exploring some of these titles and deciding on their favourites. The winners are:

Book Week Activities

Each day in the library an activity was offered based on the Book Week theme – Reading is Magic. Activities were very popular, with long lines of students waiting to get in. On Monday, students and staff showed off their costumes and had their photo taken in our photo booth. Tuesday, we got very messy making potions, using ingredients such as mermaids’ tears (vinegar), pearl dust (bicarb soda), dragons’ blood (water with red colouring), crushed diamonds (citric acid), sea foam (shaving cream) and fairies’ wings (flower petals), students made potions that fizzed and foamed and changed colour.

On Wednesday we made magic wands, decorated with ribbons and rhinestones and on Thursday we used ice-cream sticks and paper to craft a rabbit coming out of a magician’s hat. Friday is our magic show, where students can show off a magic trick they have practised and win prizes. There will be card tricks, rope tricks, coin tricks, but thankfully no sawing anyone in half tricks.

The return of the library's escape room has sparked excitement among our young bookworms, inviting fans of wizarding worlds to crack puzzling challenges inspired by the legendary Harry Potter adventures. Our young Harry Potter’s fans tried to solve the riddle so they can get into Hogwarts and escape the gargoyles.

Ms Nell Keen, Teacher Librarian