Imagine astronauts reading stories from space to school children. Our Primary students participated in ALIA’s 21^st National Simultaneous Storytime on Wednesday 19 May.

Our young students were enthralled by the ‘intergalactic’ experience! We all watched and listened to the astronaut Dr Shannon Walker read the book Give me some space! written and illustrated by Australian author Phillip Bunting, from the International Space Station.

There are a few budding engineers in Kindergarten. Our young Kindy Blue students were inspired and expressed an interest in building a replica of the International Space Station. Mrs Smith provided an array of recyclable materials and much creativity ensued. The children drew up plans and built their models expressing their emerging understandings.

A firm favourite in our Primary Library is our Lego Masters competition. In line with celebrating National Simultaneous Storytime, the week’s theme was ‘space’. The space creations were ‘stellar’. The winners of the Space challenge were Abigail and Isabella with their NASA astronaut.

This event was an absolute highlight and we are all looking forward to next year’s National Simultaneous Storytime because we all agree - Reading is FUN!

Christina Roodt

Primary Leader Teaching and Learning