A Year 2 student at The Armidale School has taken out the inaugural Alpha Furnishers Carpet Court Storybook Challenge and won, for herself and her school, prizes worth more than $1250.
Ruby Straker’s colourful entry was a tribute to the way members of a local community work together, from garbage collectors to doctors and nurses, and from police to bus drivers.
“The thing I like most of all is everyone is working together,” she concluded.
The Carpet Court Storybook Challenge is a new competition developed to encourage more shared reading in classrooms across Australia and provide schools with essential educational tools — namely colourful children’s books. At Assembly last week, Alpha Furnishers Carpet Court representatives Andrew Lennon and Peta Pierce presented Ruby with her prizes — $1000 in books and colourful reading mats for the school, and an individual $250 book prize.
“Staff decided to become involved in the competition, as it was a good opportunity for our children and also fits in very nicely with our strong focus on literacy skills,” Head of Junior School Ian Lloyd said.
“The mats were app-reciated by the girls
and boys in Year 2, but
Ruby suggested they go into the library instead,
to be shared with the whole school.”
