Paint the Town Read

Tea Gardens Public School was highlighted on the DEC website while doing the Macarena for Education Week and wearing red for Paint the Town Read.
Tea Gardens Public School doing the Macarena

Paint the Town Read was devised by an Australian teacher from Parkes, Rhonda Brain. Rhonda recognised the strong link of reading in young children and literacy. She brought together a team of local organisations and people to implement the program which would go on to involve the whole community. The community is involved through decorating shopfronts, dressing up in red and storytelling events.

Since its launch in October 1996, Paint the Town Read has been implemented by many communities in Australia and overseas. Primarily it raises the importance of reading, with each child given a book at the beginning of the program.

We are involving our Tea Gardens/Hawks Nest businesses and local community in our Paint the Town Read.

 

Rationale

· Statistics show that "reading is the single most important skill necessary for a happy, productive and successful life".

· Recognition of the role of community, parents and school have towards the reading success of our children.

Aims

· To increase the level of understanding of the impact of reading on children's learning

· To bring together families, community and children to increase the focus on literacy.

Objectives:

To:

· provide an event to allow organisations in the community to highlight the role they play in children's lives;

· raise the value of literacy within the community by staging a major celebratory event which will involve;

                             participating in the Reading Passport Program

                             wear red to show you are ‘well read' celebrate literacy and the joys of reading

                             hold a Read Day at the school on Thursday 4 August for students, parents and community members