Literacy
Literacy at Home rescheduled
The Literacy at Home online parent information session will be rescheduled to Thursday 25th of August at 7pm. A link will be sent out via Compass the day before. This session is aimed at parents with students in the Prep, One and Two who are looking for information on how to support their children with Literacy learning at home such as Take Home Reader books, Spelling and Phonic games. Apologies for the previous cancellation.
Book in a Day
On Wednesday 3rd of August, 10 students from Year 6 participated in the Kids Cancer Project, ‘Write a Book in a Day’ competition which raises much needed funds for childhood cancer research. A fun, creative and collaborative competition, students have just twelve hours to write and illustrate a book from start to finish. Digital editions of the completed stories are made available through an Online Library and shared with hospitals across Australia. Solway can be extremely proud of the efforts of our students who worked diligently from 8am till 8pm to complete their narrative ‘Journey into the Rabbit Hole. Winners will be announced in November!
Book Week 2022
The Children’s Book Council Awards Book Week will be held this year from 20th-26th of August. This year we have a number of events planned including a visit from Meerkat Productions for P-2 who will perform the James Foley nominated Picture Story book ‘Stellaphant’. We will also be visited by the award winning author of ‘The Boy and the Spy’ and ‘Specky Magee’ Felice Arena. On Friday 26th of August Solway will be having Book week dress up day. We ask students to come dressed as their favorite book character and enjoy a day of art and craft activities related to the nominated books. The cost of these events is $10 per child.
Prep 2023 Storytime
To coincide with Solway’s Book Week activities on Friday the 26th of August we are holding a Kinder Storytime from 10.00am till 1030am in the library. We will be reading some of the shortlisted books and completing craft activities to learn more about the stories. We look forward to welcoming lots of new faces to the library. Students are welcome to come dressed as their favourite book characters.
Sarah Watkins
Learning specialist - Literacy