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Book Week at ����AV

Book Week at ����AV was a real page turner, with Woodstock using the wonders of green screen technology to bring their favourite book characters to life, visits from authors and poets, inter-house book quizzes and character parades.

Ballerinas, Where’s Wally and Harry Potter were popular characters, and made an appearance at Woodstock on Friday in honour of Book Week.

However, it was Thing 1 and Thing 2, from Dr Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat that won over Mrs Smith and Miss Richardson.

Parents also got into the ‘novel’ experience, gathering in the piazza to cheer on students during their parade and celebrate children’s literacy and reading – some of them bleary-eyed having stayed up to prepare costumes!

But it was all the high-tech trickery and fakery of green screen technology that really captivated imaginations, with students transported into the pages of their favourite novels.

Earlier in the week, we had visits from popular junior fiction author, Wai Chim, and Australian Slam Poetry champion, Zohab Zee Khan, who won roars of appreciation from Senior School students with his passion, intellect and unique style of hip hop!

Congratulations and thank you to the talented library staff, teachers, Digital Learning team, students and parents who helped to embrace this year’s theme of ‘Find your treasure’ with such enthusiasm, creativity and fun.

In the words of Dr Seuss, “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”