To celebrate 30 years of Duffy books in homes, Panmure bridge school has launched a celebration! For the Duffy celebration, one of our amazing teacher’s came up with a idea of making a big giant human sized Duffy for the celebration. For the big giant human sized Duffy, our art crew known as, Keira, Siniva, Me, Armani and Bethany, created and painted the Duffy. Some of our students has been helping to decorate the hall for the celebration, and it looks amazing and creative! We also had a few guest visiting our amazing school and talking about their journey of reading and informing why reading was important.
To make a real celebration, Panmure bridge school designed their own duffy boxes and made party hats. Me and my Buddy Siniva created a Google drawing of Duffy for the hole school to draw on as soon as it’s printed.
Alan Duff is known as the founder of Duffy Books in Homes and was spread to help kids who has no books at home throughout New Zealand. In 1992, Alan Duff visited a school in Hastings where he found out that majority of the children at school at the time, came from bookless homes. In need of not having any books of their own, these children wouldn’t have a lot of interest in books. So Alan wanted to do something about this. Alan knew it was important for all kids to have the opportunity to love books and to get knowing about why it’s importing to read books. Since then, more then 14 million books has been given to children just like us who known reading is a big part of our learning. For example, it helps us explore other places, build background knowledge, increases your imagination and creativity and a lot more!
In my opinion this celebration was really fun because I get to be creative of making a big giant human sized Duffy and also learning about why is reading so important!
