Literacy News

The Great Book Swap - Monday 19th August

This year Donvale Primary School is participating in the 2024 Great Book Swap, a fundraising activity that supports the Indigenous Literacy Foundation and their works with remote Communities across Australia. The Indigenous Literacy Foundation is a charity that works with 424 remote Communities to supply books and literacy resources, and publish books in First Languages by and for First Nations Peoples. 

We have been assigned to the Bigibigi house! Bigibigi means pig in Kriol, a ‘new’ Indigenous language spoken across the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland.

Children are encouraged to donate pre-loved books to the school. Please bring these books to the office or send them in with your child to give to their classroom teacher. On Monday 19th August as part of book week, the children can look through the donated books and for a gold coin donation, select a book that they can keep and enjoy. All money raised will be donated to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.

If you’d like more information about the Indigenous Literacy Foundation please click here. To donate to this great cause, please visit our school donation page.

Thank you for your support and we look forward to celebrating the national Great Book Swap with you, your child and the school community. Happy swapping!

Book Week Dress Up & Activity Day - Tuesday 20th August

This highly anticipated day has been set for this year.  We are giving you plenty of notice to start thinking about what favourite book character your child might like to come as on this fun day. The staff are busily working out what character they will be coming as too.

Here are some websites with some easy dress up ideas for Book week:

https://www.findingmyselfyoung.com/2022/07/easy-book-week-costume-ideas.html

https://childrensbooksdaily.com/book-week-costumes-for-kids/

https://www.mamamia.com.au/book-week-costume-ideas-2021/

https://www.bountyparents.com.au/expert-advice/easy-book-week-costumes/

Writers' Festival

Next term we will be holding our bi-annual Writers' Festival. This event will be held on Wednesday 18th & Thursday 19th September. The students will all be writing about 'My Treasured Possession'. 

Every child will need a treasured / special possession that they can either bring in to school or bring a photo of, to write about. We will be beginning this writing next term from Monday 29th July (week 3).

Premiers' Reading Challenge

We have now read over 7500 books across the school and have 150 students who have completed the challenge. The aim is to get every student to complete the challenge and we are well on our way to achieving this.

Live Shows

Some much loved books are coming to the stage these school holidays. Tickets are selling fast! 

The Clocktower centre in Moonee Ponds is showcasing the following shows in June / July. For more details use this link: https://clocktowercentre.com.au/clocktower-theatre-season/

The National Theatre in Melbourne is presenting Ratburger. More details here: https://busycitykids.com.au/melbourne-calendar-events/2024/7/11/ratburger-at-the-national-theatre