Junior School Bookworms

Our Junior School Bookworms

At St Cuthbert’s, we aim to instill in our students a love of reading and books. Reading develops empathy and our imaginations – stories can take us away to faraway magical lands, other time periods, and have us view the world from other people’s shoes. Reading also reduces stress, helps us sleep better and keeps our brains healthy.

This focus on reading begins in the Junior School where our teachers foster a love of books from day one. During the Term 3 lockdown, Head of Junior School Kerry Oldman even initiated a series of daily story telling Zooms, where guest speakers read to the girls including Australian Olympian, Matthew Belcher, the most successful Australian sailor in history, and our very own Black Fern, Theresa Fitzpatrick, and teammate Stacey Fluhler, who all proudly showed off their gold medals!

Our Year 6 students’ love of books really shone through during our annual Junior School ‘Book Week’. The girls took part in a dust jacket competition, where they had to illustrate a new cover for their favourite book. It’s clear how much effort the girls put into their designs, and it’s super exciting to see we have some up-andcoming illustrators in our midst.

We will let the girls’ artwork do the rest of the talking...

In the words of Barack Obama, reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you!