Book Week News
Scholastic Book Fair
Our annual Scholastic Book Fair will arrive at Scoresby PS next Thursday, 17th August to coincide with Book Week 2023.
The Scholastic Book Fair is a much-loved institution at many schools, including Scoresby PS, and we look forward to being able to give families the opportunity to browse and purchase a selection of wonderful children's books.
The Book Fair will be open to the school community for sales in the school Library between Monday 21st August and Wednesday 23rd August - 8.30-9.00am and 3.30-4.00pm each day. Posters with sale times will be placed around the school next week. In addition, each student will receive a flyer giving a preview of just some of the titles available to purchase from the Book Fair.
The Great SPS Book Swap
This year, we have added a new event to our Book Week celebrations - The Great SPS Book Swap. This activity will take place on Tuesday 22nd August within each grade, with each student bringing a book from home that they are happy to swap with another student.
We are not expecting parents to buy a new book for this event; a pre-loved, "gently used" book in good condition with no identifying name written on it, that is appropriate for your child's year level, is ideal.
Books should be brought to school wrapped in paper, with no labels or tags attached, and given to your child's teacher by Friday 18th August.
Book Week Dress-Up Day
We are going to hold our annual whole-school Book Week Dress-Up Day on Friday 25th August. For this day, students may come dressed as their favourite book character or book title.
For this event, we encourage families to make costumes by being creative with what you have at home. Look around the house to see if you have something that can be adapted into an outfit; use your imagination to re-purpose things like boxes, cardboard, fabric, clothes, etc.
This is not a fundraiser and no gold coin donation is necessary.
CBCA Short-listed Book Discovery
We will be providing plenty of opportunities for to students to discover and celebrate the wonderful 2023 CBCA short-listed books throughout Book Week. This has, for some levels, already started in their Visual Arts lessons with Mrs Coster sharing some of the books, and the students using them as inspiration for art creation. Book Week is always a wonderful opportunity to highlight reading in many different ways...and we will be doing this with gusto at SPS!
ALISON LANCASHIRE
Book Week Coordinator