{"id":7910,"date":"2021-08-21T13:36:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T05:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spencerparkps.wa.edu.au\/?p=7910"},"modified":"2021-08-21T13:36:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T05:36:11","slug":"bookweek21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spencerparkps.wa.edu.au\/2024\/bookweek21\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Worlds, New Worlds, Other Worlds."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #233e93;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7871 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/spencerparkps.wa.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Reading-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>Book Week<\/span><\/strong> has brought children and books together across Australia annually since 1945 (WOW!) and it NEVER disappoints \u2013 especially at Spencer Park Primary School.\u00a0 This year the theme was <strong><span style=\"color: #233e93;\">Old Worlds, New Worlds, Other Worlds.<\/span><\/strong> We have enjoyed a full week of celebratory activities that highlighted the importance of reading and connecting with books.<\/p>\n<p>We were exceptionally fortunate to have <strong><span style=\"color: #233e93;\">Elaine Forrestal<\/span> <\/strong>in our school for two days delivering interactive and engaging sessions. Ms Forrestal is a <span style=\"color: #233e93;\"><strong>West Australian author<\/strong> <\/span>whose work has been published in Australia, the UK and America. \u00a0Ms Forrestal shared her own stories with our staff and students in our library and then invited them to act out\/perform parts of the story. <span style=\"color: #ee373d;\"><a style=\"color: #ee373d;\" href=\"https:\/\/spencerparkps.wa.edu.au\/portfolio_page\/bookweek21\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Have a look at our photos,<\/strong><\/a><\/span> what a great experience!<\/p>\n<p>To kickstart each school morning we had our fabulous staff members read a book to our classes over the school PA system. The selection of books included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #233e93;\"><strong>The Wildest Book Week Ever<\/strong><\/span> \u2013 read by Mr Luscombe<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #233e93;\"><strong>Brave-Bottomed Wombat<\/strong><\/span> \u2013 read by Mrs Mackenzie<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #233e93;\">Wait!<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 Read by Old Mother Hubbard<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #233e93;\"><strong>A Human for Kingsley<\/strong><\/span> \u2013 Mrs Harris-Moroney<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The hotly contested <strong><span style=\"color: #233e93;\">\u2018Decorate Your Classroom Door\u2019 competition<\/span> <\/strong>was a return feature of our Book Week activities. To add an extra incentive, every student from the class with the \u2018winning\u2019 door (and corridor and windows etc.) were in the running to win a golden book swap ticket from the library. Judging took place on Thursday morning by our resident art critics extraordinaire who announced the winner of the 2021 Book Week Decorate Your Classroom Door competition was&#8230;drumroll&#8230;..<strong><span style=\"color: #233e93;\">Ms Reading\u2019s Room 3! <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Week has brought children and books together across Australia&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spps-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO 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