Year 6 Selby Primary School student Oscar
On Wednesday 17 August we had a very fun incursion by the famous author Adam Wallace.
He ran us through some exercises to boost resilience in drawing, and we learned drawing doesn’t have to be perfect.
One of these exercises he got us to participate in was to draw a grumpy turtle who had lost a soccer match with our opposite hand.
After the exercises, we drew a dragon from one of his books.
Then last (and definitely not least) we were each allowed to choose on of his books to keep!!! For ourselves!!
One of the great (and very well received) things our school does as a little bit of fun is the book fair!!
Held in our excellent library every year in book week, this little shop is like a semi-circle of shelving, full of books, and tables covered with beautiful posters, colourful erasers and cute little pencil toppers.
Every time it is held, (on one of the days of book week) the students are able to go up to the library and purchase any of the items for sale.
But don’t be fooled by this brief account, the book fair is not brief, as it is open for two or three days of book week, in which parents can take the opportunity to bring their children along after school, and make some purchases then too.
This is a wonderful opportunity for children to buy a book or a poster or anything else at this stall for a reasonable price, with all the profits going into buying new books for classrooms, and for the library.
Equal best with the book fair (in amount of fun) is the parade.
On one of the days of book week the children dress up as our favourite book character and we parade through our school hall to the clapping and cheering of the other students (and music, usually drowned out by the cheering mentioned earlier).
After all of the classes have done their laps of the hall, our principal announces the best costume from each class.
This year, the winner from the preps was a boy who had dresses up as a wardrobe, there was also a giant hat, a cat in a hat, a dog-man, a dwarf, a dragon and others.
For the rest of the day we all wear our costumes around the yard at playtime, and in the class during the lessons.
All taken into account this year was another brilliant book parade!
