Each year since 1945, schools and libraries across Australia have been celebrating books and Australian children’s authors and illustrators. Out of the hundreds of books for children and teens that are written and illustrated by Australians each year, 36 are chosen to be on the shortlist for Book of the Year. On the eve of Book Week, 1 book from each of the 6 categories is chosen to be the Book of the Year. The announcement this year was on Friday August 19.

In conjunction with Book Week this year, the Scholastic Book Fair will be happening in the library in Week 5. The students will be able to view the range of books and other items on Monday August 22. The Fair will be open for sales on Tuesday August 23 and Wednesday August 24 at the following times: 8:30-9:00 a.m., 12:40-1:10 p.m. and 3:10-3:30 p.m. A note has been sent home providing more information.

Book Week 2022

Dreaming with your eyes open is a wonderful theme for dressing up to. It really allows for us to be dreaming about being anything or anyone. And this is how it was today, at our annual Book Week Parade. There were glamorous princesses, beautiful butterflies, spelling binding characters from Harry Potter, action heroes like Spiderman and even characters, including the dog, from Where’s Wally.

Students and staff from the Kindy joined us, as did members of the Hakwer community, as we paraded around the playground area to groovy music on a sunny day in August. After the winners were announced and photos were taken, we all enjoyed a delicious cupcake made by Stef Teague.

Congratulations to the winners of the dress-up competition:

Most creative costume: Jimmy and Archie Morgan

Most glamorous costume: Lachlan Hilder

Most unique costume: Paul

Most original costume: Bayley

Most interesting costume: Sammy

Most colourful costume: Alice

Most elaborate costume: Lily

Most inspirational costume: Koko

I wish to thank the following people for their help in making the Book Week Parade work so well:

Steve Green – manning the sound system and all the other things he does behind the scenes to help out

Sharon Lam and Howard Yam – judging the competition (no mean feat!)

Rosie Luckraft and Janice McInnis – manning the cupcake station and helping at the book fair

Stef Teague – creating the cupcakes

Members of the community who joined us on the day

Parents for helping your child get organised for dress-up day

Staff for your support of Book Week in general and the dress-up day in particular.

HASS – Humanities and Social Sciences F-2

This term, we have started looking at Places and Spaces, which has included looking at the natural, managed, and constructed features of the environment, how the environment changes over time, either naturally or through human activity, and ways we can help protect our environment.

We will be moving onto consolidating all that we have been learning in HASS this year by completing a Grand Tour of the world. In their tour, students will be finding out a little bit about the different habitats around the world and some of the animals that live in those habitats. They will be working out the continents on which the animals live and the hemisphere in which they can be found. They will also need to work out how they would travel around the world and communicate with family and friends if their Grand Tour was in the early part of the 20th century as well as if they were doing it in 2022.

Digital Technologies F-2

The students have really enjoyed continuing their journey in discovering how algorithms work and the coding needed for someone else to create what they designed. Soon, we will begin working in Maker’s Empire to create a 3D object or toy that a child their age could take to Mars.