Monbulk Primary School teachers dress ups were based on book series titled ‘Little People, Big Dreams’ for Book Week 2022.
For the children, there was no particular theme.
“We find our engagement is higher when there’s a bit more student voice and agency with what’s going on, so the children can dress up as their favourite character from a book that they like,” Monbulk Primary School principal Estelle Alder said.
“We want to make things easy for parents as well, so we don’t want to put too much burden on creating masterpieces because we know that some families that can be very busy and stressful.”
Previous dress ups for students include the caterpillar from ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar” and Harry Potter and Hermione from the Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling.
“One of my other favourites was Captain Underpants…that was a bit of a shock; a student dressed up in a nude bodysuit with giant underpants on the outside, that was memorable,” Ms Alder said.
Ms Alder greeted students on Friday 26 August as the late American lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
“I love it because it gives the kids that chance to express their creativity, so it’s really fun.”
