Reading   

In Reading, students will engage with the novel ‘His Name Was Walter’ by Emily Rodda. Published in 2018, His Name Was Walter is a captivating mystery-fantasy novel centred around a group of students and their teacher who become stranded overnight in an old and eerie house. While exploring the house, they discover a mysterious handwritten book titled His Name Was Walter, which tells the story of a young orphan named Walter and the dark and unsettling events that unfold throughout his life.

As the group continues reading, they begin to realise that Walter's story is deeply connected to the house in which they are staying and the people who once lived there. As secrets surrounding love, loss and betrayal are uncovered, the students and their teacher become increasingly entangled in a powerful and haunting narrative where the boundaries between the past and present begin to blur.