One of the busiest weeks in the school calendar is Children's Book Week. This year, Book Week was held in Week 5 of Term 3. It provided an excellent opportunity for students to practise literacy skills in keeping with the school priorities for 2003. The theme for this year's Book Week was, Oceans of Books.

One of the highlights of Book Week is the announcement of the Australian Children's Book of the Year Awards.  These are presented annually by The Children's Book Council of Australia. They were first awarded in 1946. Until 1952, there was only a single award category, now there are five:

• Picture Book of the Year
• Book of the Year: Younger Readers
• Book of the Year: Older Readers
• Book of the Year: Early Childhood
• The Eve Pownall Award for Information Books

Some of this year's short-listed books

Just before Book Week a shortlist of books is announced in each category.  This year most classes at Happy Valley chose one of the short-listed books to read and study. Each class then "showed off" their activities to other classes.  A multitude of activities was planned across all year levels. Although children were involved in a host of learning activities, communication was a key element.  It was amazing to witness the many creative ways the students communicated their ideas and opinions to others. Some classes performed in their classroom  - others did an assembly item. The photo gallery below shows a selection of class activities.

Photo Gallery of Book Week
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Bear and Chook Cheryl Alcock’s class	Bear and Chook Cheryl Alcock’s class	Bear and Chook Cheryl Alcock’s class
Cedar B Hartley Barb Williams' class	Cedar B Hartley Barb Williams' class	Endangered! John Kuik’s class
Endangered! John Kuik’s class	Horrendo’s Curse D’Arcy Jones’ class	Horrendo’s Curse D’Arcy Jones’ class
Iron In the Blood John Pope’s class	Iron In the Blood John Pope’s class	Jethro Byrde Jacqui Brettig’s class
Jethro Byrde Jacqui Brettig’s class	Kindy visit	The Mighty Murray Simon Mueller’s class
The Mighty Murray Simon Mueller’s class	Jeremy and Shannon Cheryl Alcock’s class	Oceans of Books
The Potato People Helen Atanasoff’s class	The Potato People Helen Atanasoff’s class	Rain May and Cpt. Daniel Darryl Draper’s class
Rain May and Cpt. Daniel Darryl Draper’s class	Tom Jones Saves the World Trudie Petho’s class	Too Loud Lily Carmel Nicholson’s class
Too Loud Lily Carmel Nicholson’s class	Where in the World Meridith Gabb’s class	Where in the World Meridith Gabb’s class
A Year on Our Farm Shelley Saunder’s class	A Year on Our Farm Shelley Saunder’s class

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