Book Week Celebrations
The Children’s Book Council of Australia celebrated its 70th Anniversary in 2015 and what better way to mark the occasion with the theme ‘Books light up our World.’
Book Week was officially launched on Saturday 22 August and finished on Friday 28 August. At Ivanhoe Grammar School we had a wonderful week celebrating Book Week 2015, proving that books really do light up our world!
At Plenty Campus the Library ran activities during lunchtime and the students began the ‘How many Millions of Words?’ reading challenge for secondary students. Students are being asked to read at least one novel and up to as many as four, in order to reach the highest possible number of words read for their House.
Staff and students in the Primary and Secondary years also took part in a Book Week dress up day and came to school dressed as their favourite book character.
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At The Ridgeway Campus Book Week was celebrated a week later as this coincided with Science Week. Library staff also ran various activities during lunchtime including fun with Google virtual reality glasses, book reviews, chess competitions and a Year 7 poster competition. Congratulations to Isabella (1st place- 7B), Lauren (2nd place – 7H) and Brooklyn (3rd place – 7B).
Students also held a sweets stall fundraiser to raise money to buy library books for schools in Vanuatu that were destroyed by Cyclone Pam earlier this year. At the school community book sculpture event, participants learnt how to fold easy hedgehogs or the more time-consuming folded word such as READ. In a great example of ‘Reduce, Re-use, Recycle’ some real works of art were produced as ‘old’ books became ‘new’ again.
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