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Family Reading Week – Week 10
We give importance to reading together as a family in week 10 when reading is the only homework! Enjoy your students’ library books or an old favourite from your shelves and send your class teacher a photo of what and where you are reading together.
Squiz Kids Podcasts and Quizzes
Check out this great, age-appropriate resource for 8-12 year olds at home and start some real-world conversations based on reliable information.
Squiz Kids: A News Podcast For Kids | Homepage - Squiz Kids
Covering Help Needed
Our new Year 3 home readers are ready for covering so please call into the library to collect a bundle if you can give some time to this task at home.
TERM 2 EVENTS
Step into Stories Author Visits with Award Winning Authors Sue Whiting and Cristy Burne May 14th
Years 3 and 4 will spend an hour with Sue Whiting exploring “What could go wrong?” as Sue takes our students on a wild, trouble-filled story adventure trekking across Antarctica. This adventure led to Sue writing her Pearly and Pig stories.
Cristy Burne, STEM writer and author with 20 years experience will share stories from her books and her life to show Year 5 and 6 students that it is incredibly rewarding to do hard things. Cristy will challenge the students to think how we can live more creatively and courageously.
National Simultaneous Storytime
This year’s book to be shared across Australia on Wednesday 21st May is “The Truck Cat”
Family Book Club
Our next book to read together at home is “Wilder than Midnight” written by Cerrie Burnell
Silverthorne is a place of secrets. A forest of twisting paths and tangled thorns. A castle with locked towers and whispers of tragedy. A village trapped between terrors known and unknown. But something is stirring in the leaves . . .
Saffy is a good girl, tired of being told to stick to the forest paths, and always follow the rules.
Aurelia is a hidden girl, locked in a castle tower, dreaming of escaping the fate she's told awaits her.
Wild Rose is a fierce girl, raised by wolves, full of spells and fearlessness and cunning.
Together, they will change life in Silverthorne forever.
Good Reads (online) 2025 Wilder than Midnight by Cerrie Burnell | Goodreads
We will meet to chat about the book on Monday afternoon 26th May in Week 6 which gives families plenty of time to be reading together. Students who have read the book with an adult are welcome at the book chat without their family member if this time is unsuitable due to other commitments.
Regional Readers’ Cup Competition – Tuesday 10th June
Our volunteer readers will start their journey next week when they begin to read the 5 set novels chosen for the competition. Thank you for setting this challenge for yourselves students, I hope you love the stories!
Happy Reading Everyone!
Anne Anderson
Teacher Librarian