Book Week took place in St. Aidan’s N.S. from Mon 28th Nov – Friday 2nd Dec. This is an annual event and helps to further promote an interest in and love of reading.
On Friday we had Character Day – when everybody dressed as a character from a book.
Various activities took place during Book Week such as Storytime with visiting story tellers, Buddy Reading ( Junior and Senior Classes), a Table Quiz, D.E.A.R. Time (Drop Everything and Read) , visiting authors and writing stories .
We held a Book fair -lots of children purchased new books. Thanks to the Parents’ Association for all their help at the Book fair.
First and Second Class on Character Day
On Thursday, author Geraldine Mills spoke about her work did a writing workshop with the senior classes
Buddy Reading -6th Class read with Junior classes
Character Day Assembly
A competition was held in each class and all illustrations, book reports and writing were displayed in the school hall.
Prizes were sponsored by the Parents Association. Congratulations to all the winners.
A big thank you to Mr.Donnellan who organised and co-ordinated Book Week
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