Book Week 2018

Avoca National School celebrated Book Week in style from Monday ,October 22nd to the 25th inclusive. On Monday the school held a ‘silent reading’ gathering in the hall. We also had the author Alan O’ Neill come and visit us on Wednesday. He read from his own work entitled ‘ The Beautiful Feather’. for the younger children and held a writing workshop for the older children. All classes participated in the poster competition and the winners were announced on the Wednesday. Thursday was our ‘dress up day’ and our ‘end of month’ treat day. . The standard was extremely high and all of the costumes  truly deserved a prize. However, difficult decisions had to be made and the following emerged as winners from  very stiff competition: Jayden Doyle,Aiden Fleming,Laragh O Callaghan,Eoghan O’ Reilly,Abaigh Mableson, Adam Connolly,Aoibhean Donnelly,Glen Murphy,Lily Bolger,Hannah Cawley,Fiachra Hegarty,Rebecca Nolan,Lauren Pender Barnes,Hannah Andrews,Abby Moore ,Leah Fox, Megan Porter,Freya Reddy,Molly Doyle and Joe Sinnott. Well done to the 6th class who orgainised a fantastic array of games and treats in the hall for all of the other classes. Games such as ‘Name the Skeleton, Shoot the Balloon and others ‘ went down a treat’.TThere are a tiny selection of pictures from our Book Week to be seen below.