Junior School Resource Centre

CBCA Book Week 2020

Since 1945, the Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has brought children and books together across Australia through CBCA Book Week.

During this time schools and public libraries spend one glorious week celebrating books and Australian children's authors and illustrators. This year the theme is 'Curious Creatures, Wild Minds'. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the timing for the celebration has been moved back to 17–23 October, Week 2 of Spring Term.

From 2021, the CBCA expects that the Book of the Year Awards and Book Week will revert to their normal schedule with the awards announced on the third Friday in August and CBCA Book Week commencing the following day.

This year, we will be encouraging the Early Learning Centre students to come to school dressed as their favourite book character on Tuesday 20 October. There will be a parade held in the Junior/Middle School Library between 9am and 10am.

For our Junior School students, their parade will be help from 2–3pm, Wednesday 21 October in MacKellar Hall. We suggest that these students come to school in their PE uniforms and get changed after lunch in their classrooms before making their way to the parade.

The parade will finish with a ‘really well-rehearsed’ pantomime by the staff based on a book that matches the theme for this year.

Mr Warwick Norman
Junior School Dean of Teaching and Learning