Children across Sunbury were out in force last week dressed as their favourite characters for this year’s Book Week.
Dulap Wilim Kinder attended the parade at Sunbury Heights Primary School on Wednesday, August 23, for the first time and would like to make it a tradition for many more years to come.
Kinder teacher Eliza McDonald said the children had a fantastic time and there were a lot of standout costumes.
“The parade went for an hour, and children from kinder to year 6, including teachers were part of the parade,” Ms McDonald said.
“It was such an amazing event for Dulap Kinder to be part of… and we saw so many fantastic costumes.
“[We saw] teachers dressed as Princess Fiona to students dressed up as Indiana Jones, Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter and so many more.
“At Kinder we had lots of Elsa, superheros, gecko’s, storm troopers, bumble bee and… our winning costume from the parade was Alaska wearing Belle.
“Alaska was lucky enough to receive a voucher that was kindly donated by Sunbury Collins Book store.”
Ms McDonald said Book Week is a great way to celebrate reading, and get children involved.
“The annual celebration in Australia is a much anticipated event that aims to ignite a love of reading amongst young children,” she said.
“Research shows that reading for pleasure improves students’ reading skills, as well as their learning outcomes, which is why events such as book week are so important in the early years.”
Zoe Moffatt
