Book Week at SKiPPS

We love celebrating Book Week at SKiPPS - we love it so much that it splills over into 3 weeks! The festivities have started with our fabulous Book Week display that Amy has created - can you Guess Who from the staff selected each book as their favourite? You can come and see this wonderful display with your children after school, it is located just outside the staffroom door.

Author Visits

Our Book Week celebrations are continuing, and we are very excited to be welcoming a wonderful line-up of Australian authors to SKiPPS this year!

Each class will have the opportunity to meet an author, hear about their books and discover what happens behind the scenes as an idea develops into a story and eventually becomes a published book. These visits provide such a wonderful opportunity for our students to see that the books they enjoy reading are created by real people with ideas, imagination and a love of stories.

We were thrilled to kick off our author visits yesterday when Andrea Rowe joined our Foundation and Year 1 students. Andrea is the proud author of Jetty Jumping, Sunday Skating, In the Rockpool and many other wonderful books. Our students were incredibly engaged as Andrea shared her stories and talked about where her ideas come from and how they make their way onto the page. It was wonderful to see their excitement as they listened to the stories behind the stories! 

Next week, we are delighted to welcome Wendy Orr, author of Nim's Island, Dragonfly Song and many more books, who will be working with our Year 4–6 students. This visit is particularly exciting for many of our students, as Nim's Island was studied as a class novel by our Year 3 and 4 students a couple of years ago. What a fantastic opportunity to meet the author behind a story they know so well!

Our final author visit for the year will be Chrissie Perry, who will be joining our Year 2 and 3 students. I am particularly excited about Chrissie's visit for two reasons! Firstly, I taught her son here at SKiPPS many years ago, and secondly, I thoroughly enjoyed reading Chrissie's Penelope Perfect series with my own girls when they were younger. It is always a special experience when our personal connections with books and authors come full circle!

We value these author visits enormously. We see first-hand how engaged our students become when they meet the people behind the stories they know and love. Each year, we work hard to connect with authors who we know our students and community will enjoy, while also providing opportunities for them to learn more about the writing and publishing process.

Meerkat Productions

And the Book Week celebrations don't stop there! Following our author visits, we are lucky enough to welcome Meerkat Productions back to SKiPPS for two performances featuring books shortlisted in this year's Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards. This year's performances are Dear Broccoli by Jo Dabrowski and Inked by Karen Wasson. The performances will take place on Tuesday 18th August.

Book Week dress-up parade

We will then bring our Book Week celebrations to a very colourful conclusion with our Book Week Dress-Up Parade on Friday 28 August at 9am. We can't wait to see the incredible characters and costumes our students bring to life! Please see the images below for some costume inspiration. 

We will also unveil the SKiPPS winner of the Best 2026 Children's Picture Book from the CBCA selcetion.

 All classrooms have a copy of these books and students will vote on their favourite over the coming weeks.

Thank you to Amy Salter who has organised these fabulous events and celebrations for our school.

Jac Morphy

Assistant Principal - Curriculum and Instruction