Junior and Senior students from Nambucca Valley Christian Community School celebrate Book Week

While the junior students had a ball on Tuesday dressing up as their favourite literary legend and watching the primary teachers’ story pageants, the senior students are having a tonne of fun of their own.

Mrs Lynelle Cairns and Mrs Barb Parker have organised activities ranging from speed-dating with books, to buddy-based storybook time, to a huge display in the library of staff members’ most treasured books – everything from Old Yella to the Field Guide to Australian Birds.

“The display’s been very popular. Everyone is loving coming in and having a look at what their teachers liked to read when they were younger,” Mrs Cairns said.

“And with the speed-dating sessions, where kids get five minutes to ‘flirt’ and get to know a book, we’ve had more kids subsequently check one out than would normally happen in a library session.”

The Year fives were busy on Monday cooking up a storm of nibbles for parents to enjoy after the book parade, and the senior students, likewise, were mad at work in the kitchen preparing cakes for yesterday’s cake stall fundraiser, the profits of which will be going to ensuring children in India receive a valuable and literary-rich education too.