Te Wiki O Ngā Pukapuka - Book Week 2025

The Preparatory School was bustling with excitement as students and staff celebrated its annual Book Week at the end of Term 3.

In addition to a packed programme led by the Preparatory School Library team, the whole school enthusiastically embraced the festivities, with classroom and specialist teachers creating lessons and activities to match the Book an Adventure theme.

The Library hosted two visiting authors, Karah Sutton and Sarina Dickson. Older students were captivated by Karah’s unique approach to her creativity, and Sarina’s visit with the younger students provided them with fantastic ideas about how to become story writers.

Other key events included the hard-fought interclass Book Quiz, with 8T crowned as supreme winners, a delightful story walk courtesy of the School Librarian Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (SLANZA), lots of competitions, and of course plenty of story sharing.

The main event was, as always, the spectacular Book Parade. Led by pipers, Benjamin Carline and Luke Russell (both Year 7), Preparatory School staff and students, and Pre-school children paraded across the campus dressed as their favourite book characters.