Book Week | 17 – 21 June

The Senior School will celebrate Book Week next week. There will be a Father and Son Book Breakfast for Years 9 and 10, author visits for Years 7 to 9, jeopardy between the Houses and a couple of guessing competitions. 

Two authors will visit the School on Tuesday 18 June. Bradley Christmas, whose book Saltwater Boy was published last year, will speak to the boys in Years 7 and 8. Graham Akhurst will speak to Year 9 about the craft of writing and his debut novel Borderland.

The Library Service Captain and Deputy, Louis Cathles and Will Nugent in Year 12, will run Book Jeopardy between the Houses at lunchtime throughout the week. Each House will be represented by three boys. Last year, Dixon won the trophy. Which House will be the champions this time?

Boys will have the opportunity to test how well they know Shore Staff members’ literary tastes by participating in a guessing competition where they will have to match ten staff members with their favourite books. Another guessing competition will test the boys’ familiarity with a couple of well-known books. Pages from old copies of three books have been torn into strips and strategically put in glass jars. Have a close look at the strips and see if you can work out which books the pages are from.

Mrs E White
Head of Library & Information Services