Book Week is Coming

The Senior School will celebrate an extended Book Week between 12 and 24 June. There will be poetry slam, author visits, a book talk, jeopardy between the Houses, a bookmark design challenge, and a couple of guessing competitions. 

The literary celebrations will kick off with Poetry Slam on 12 and 13 June. Shore’s budding poets will perform their creations on the theme “Adventure” at lunchtime. Ms Allison Tait, author of The Fire Star, Willow Bright’s Secret Plot and others, will address Year 8 on 19 June. Mr Jeremy Lachlan, author of The Jane Chronicles, will speak to Year 7 on 20 June. The boys in Year 9 will listen to Young Adult literature specialist Mr Paul Macdonald speak about “The Reading Landscape Today – Current Trends and Top Reads” on 24 June. This should give them some good holiday reading suggestions.

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

Boys are encouraged to enter the bookmark design competition. The theme for the design is “Book an Adventure”. Entries are due on 18 June, and entry forms are available in the Library.

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 reading journey. 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 Eva White
Head of Library & Information Services