Each year, the junior and senior campuses come together to celebrate National Simultaneous Storytime – an Australia-wide initiative to promote the power of reading, and its role in bringing communities together.

This year the event was hosted in the Wyvern Library, where Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2 classes were joined by a group of Year 12 students from Stanmore (Lachlan Elliott (12/MA), Theodore Harding (12/JN), Will Latimer (12/JN), Harry Ludlow (12/MO), Chris McMaster (12/KL), Dion Riotto (12/KL), Harrison Singh (12/KL), Leon Vitogiannis (12/KL), Andrew Ward (12/ME), Peter Zavvos (12/FL), Stephen Zinonos (12/MO), Jacob Turl (12/MA), and Jack Jacobs (12/FL)). Not only was it a special time for the junior boys, but the senior boys also enjoyed a rare break from their busy study schedules to wear silly hats and act out some of the characters in this year’s nominated book, ‘I Got This Hat’ by Jol and Kate Temple.

One senior student said, ‘It’s really great to work with the little guys on their reading. It’s such an important skill that we take for granted – it’s easy to forget that we were once at that stage, not knowing how to read.’

After the reading was complete, the senior boys did the ‘Mexican hat dance’ with the little ones which brought many smiles and laughter into the Library!

Ms Gina Simmonds
Library Operations Manager