Curious Creatures Read: ISA Celebrates Book Week!

February also saw the return of another community-favourite event: ISA Book Week. What a lot of fun with books and reading everyone had!

Book Week is ISA’s annual celebration of reading and books, aiming to expand students' horizons by encouraging them to be curious about discovering new books, authors and perspectives and thereby foster a lifelong love of reading.

Prior to Book Week, the ISA Librarians issued a challenge to the ISA Community: to recreate a book cover, which where then displayed on screens around campus throughout the week. Many students and staff took on the challenge, with the winning entry drawn from a hat receiving a voucher for the ABC Bookstore.

Dr. Carmody kicked off the week on Monday with an announcement: Drop Everything and Read! The whole community was invited to take part in the DEAR, stopping whatever they were doing to pick up a book and read together for an uninterrupted 15 minutes.

In playgrounds around the Lower School, students had the opportunity to go for a Story Walk during recess. In Upper School, a Story Walk was displayed outside the library for students to read during their break times.

Tuesday brought the great Reading Marathon, in which students and staff signed up to read in cosy seats in the main foyer for at least 15 minutes, and each seat was kept warm with a reader throughout the school day. In total, the community read for a fantastic 4065 minutes! On Wednesday, the Upper School Library hosted a multilingual and multicultural seminar in which Upper School teachers shared their home languages and meaningful texts as part of the Global Village Day celebrations. ISA welcomed the American Book Center onto campus to sell books throughout the day on Thursday, while Friday saw the popular book character dress-up day.

Throughout the week, the ISA community discovered that Curious Creatures Read! Being curious about reading new books and hearing new points of view have reminded us of the importance of reading to learn more about the world, ourselves and others, not just during Book Week but the whole year around. We can’t wait to celebrate again next year!