THURSDAY 31 AUGUST, 2017

Time: 2.45 – 3.30pm ~ Parents/visitors welcome!

Place: Sherril’s Shed

The 2017 Book Week theme is “Escape to Everywhere with Books”. Listed below are suggested costume ideas for each Year Level’s allocated destination. Of course, you and your child may come up with more great costume ideas! Students should wear their costumes to school (with consideration given to weather and practicality!).

PREP: Escape to the Beach/Island

Dress ups may include: inflatable toys, bathing costumes, towels, goggles, boogie boards, sea creatures, seaweed, palm trees, Nemo, pirates, boats, treasure etc.

YEAR ONE: Escape to a Make-believe place

Dress ups may include: fairies, witches, gnomes, fairy tale characters, wizards, characters from the Far Away Tree/Wizard of Oz/Rainbow Magic etc.

YEAR TWO: Escape to Space

Dress ups may include: Star Wars characters, planets, aliens, stars, sun, moon, satellites, rockets etc.

YEAR THREE: Escape to the Forest

Dress ups may include: plants, toadstools, characters from different forest/tree stories, e.g. Andy Griffith’s Treehouse series, Faraway Tree, Robin Hood, rainforest creatures and plants etc.

YEAR FOUR: Escape to France

Dress ups may include: Characters from ‘Mr. Chicken goes to Paris’, the ‘Madeleine’ series, artists, chefs, Eiffel Tower, cabaret, red/white/blue, berets etc.

YEAR FIVE: Escape to the Past (stepping back in time)

Dress ups may include: historic characters/costumes, favourite book as a child, authors from the past – e.g. Banjo Patterson (stockman, drover, swagman, time-machines/clocks) etc.

YEAR SIX: Escape to the Future:

Dress ups may include: Hero figures, travel in the future, robots, living on Mars, astronauts, themselves grown up/old, devices of the future etc.

Beaumaris North PS

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