JUNIOR SCHOOL

National Simultaneous Storytime in Space

Mrs Rachael Cosentino - Teacher Librarian/Literacy Specialist

National Simultaneous Storytime is an initiative of the Australian Library and Information Association. This initiative aims to see over one million young people reading the same book, at the same time, throughout the world. On Wednesday 19 May, our students were some of the 1.8 million students in 25,500 locations reading this space themed book.

Whilst many locations participated by watching an astronaut in space read this year’s book, our Junior School Library was transformed into our very own space pocket satellite for zooming into each of our classrooms.

Teacher Librarian/Literacy Specialist, Mrs Cosentino and Espanol Teacher, Senora Grados together read this year’s text, “Give me some space” by Philip Bunting. With Spanish Language teaching commencing this year in the Junior School it was a wonderful opportunity to present the book in both English and Spanish and the teachers, along with the Junior School students loved the experience.

Our astronauts also visited lots of classrooms and many space themed STEM, writing, art and mathematics lessons were undertaken throughout the day. You can see the story read from space here: https://youtu.be/XP0PokLCQNQ