Cloncurry State School held a pop-up event on November 27 – 28 to promote the joys of reading, taking visitors into new worlds while highlighting the learning of students this year.
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Teacher, Melanie Shephard, said students chose their own theme this year.
“The focus is on ‘Learning to read, Reading to learn’, which we then aligned to the idea that ‘Reading Takes You Places’,” Ms Shephard said.
“We wanted to immerse the students in texts that were of real world value and something they could connect with and critically analyse.”
Groups were mixed across Year 7 and 8, allowing for a wider variety of ideas, backgrounds and creative collaboration.
Stalls ranged from topics like Indigenous culture, world food, fairy tales, forensics, medieval history, and precious gems.
“Each stall came up with a Learning Objective and a set of Success Criteria to support that,” Ms Shephard said.
Invitations were hand-made and printed in the Art Room complete with each stall’s logo.
These were given to family and friends, and each group invited different community members.
Highlights aimed at providing maximum engagement with Learning Objectives included:
- A swamp filled with creatures for younger students to identify.
- A photo booth from Beauty and the Beast.
- Digging for different precious stones and gold and using charts to identify the find.
- Information about House Medici from Florence.
- Matching different staple foods from around the world at the International Café.
- Hide away in a cave and listen to Dreamtime stories on headphones.
- Locate cave paintings and use a chart to identify the different drawings.
- Enjoy a Dreamtime play that reveals how the kangaroo came to hop on two legs.
- Help E.T. phone home.
- Observe the dimensions of a brick from the Great Pyramid.
- Touch real life horse tack.
- Solve a murder.
- Learn about Ernest Henry Mine and the support they provide to the students through their Books In Homes Reading Program.
- Play a Medieval board game.
- Learn the parts of a sword.
- Vote for your favourite horse breed and name.
- Match different previous gems to their locations around the world.
- Try three forensic analysis activities.
