Book Week 2023
What a fabulous time we had during Book Week this year with our lunchtime activities! The Academic committee kicked off the week with a charades competition in the library which was followed by book dominoes, book themed board games and our match the teacher to their favourite book competition.
The highlight of the week was, of course, our costume parade. Walking the runway like professionals, the students and staff proudly showed off their costumes to the appreciative audience of fellow students. With costumes ranging from Barbie to Alice in Wonderland to the fantasy world of Sir Terry Pratchett, the parade was a great success! Well done to all participants, the creativity of costumes was amazing!
Thank you to our judges - Ruby Elliott, Allisandra Harris and Sebastian Wills - for judging the parade. After much discussion, the judges decided on the following awards:
- nac max1st Overall winner for best costume - Alice Conroy, Gracie Schumacher, Greta Schumacher and Olivia Walker as characters from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- 2nd Overall winner for best costume - Lucy Conway, Amelia Quin, Meija Beccia as characters from The Lorax by Dr Seuss
- 3rd Overall winner for best costume - Neve Leahy and Nora Adams as Red Riding Hood and “Wolf” Granny from Little Red Riding Hood
- Best homemade costume - Joe Joyce as The Beanstalk from Jack and the beanstalk
- Most original costume - Teddy Maslen as Nac Mac Feegle from The Wee Free Men by Sir Terry Pratchett
- Best in-character performance - William Walter as The Very Hungry Caterpillar from The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- Best group entry - Matilda King, Sam Agnew, Poppy Winter, Moushmi Madhu, Yilin Chaung, Amelie Chin, Anika Menz as the characters from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol
- Best staff costume - Glenn Bason as Subject Delta from Bioshock
- Librarian’s choice - Samilla Dellaway as Red Riding Hood from Little Red Riding Hood
A big thank you to Gray Akpobi and Tobias Halfpenny for filming and photographing the parade. Thank you to all participants, as well as all the students and staff who helped to make this year’s Book Week such a success.
From the Library Team
(Helen Rodda, Prue Doig and Blaga Fakos)