📚 Reading Week 2026 – Roar Like a Leader! 🦁

Our much-anticipated Reading Week is just around the corner! From 23–27 February, our Junior School and Middle School students will take part in a week filled with engaging activities, fun challenges, and joyful celebrations of reading.

This year’s theme, “Roar Like a Leader: Characters Who Lead,” invites students to explore inspiring literary characters who demonstrate courage, integrity, perseverance, and servant leadership. Through stories, we hope our students will discover that leadership is not only about influence, but about character.

📖 What’s Happening During Reading Week?

• 🚪 Door Decorating & Dress-Up Days (see the attached Dress-Up Schedule poster for daily themes)

• 🎭 Readers Theater & Book Battle

• 🤝 Buddy Reading across grade levels

• ✍️ Writing and Publishing Workshop

• 🏕️ Special guest sessions and engaging literacy activities

• 📚 Book Fair (JS & MS) — open 8 AM–4 PM at 2F

Each activity is thoughtfully designed to nurture literacy, creativity, confidence, and a love for reading.

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👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Parents, You’re Invited Too!

Reading Week is a celebration for our whole community.

We warmly invite you to join our:

Parent Storytelling Workshop

🗓 Thursday, 26 February 2026

⏰ 8:00 AM

📍 UG Seminar Room

🎤 Facilitated by Kak Aio (@aiodongeng)

Did you know that reading aloud just 20 minutes a day can significantly strengthen your child’s imagination, vocabulary, and love of learning? This workshop will equip parents with practical and engaging storytelling techniques to build connection and nurture lifelong readers.

🔗 Sign up: bit.ly/sphkvparentsession

You are also invited to visit our Book Fair, featuring a wonderful selection of vendors and books for all ages.

Reading Week is more than just costumes and activities — it is an opportunity to grow readers who think deeply, lead faithfully, and reflect Christ-like character in their daily lives.

Let’s partner together to raise children who will truly roar like leaders.

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Dress Up Days Notes:

1. Define the term prop

a. A prop is not a costume or anything one might wear

b. It is something you can hold in your hand

c. Examples: wand, shield, rose, scroll, mirror, apple, Bible, teacup, stethoscope

2. Define the term accessories

a. Anything that can be work on the head or any part of the body but not a piece of clothing

b. Students must be in uniform

c. Examples: cape, crown, necklace, glasses, boots, surgical hat, tie

3. Define Leader Character

Roar Like a Leader reflects confidence in doing what is right, while Characters Who Lead by Example reminds us that true leadership in stories is shown through actions, choices, and the way others are treated.

4. Examples of characters that literally roared:

a. Lions

b. Bear

c. Dragons

d. Book samples:

i. Ravi's Roar by Tom Percival: In this picture book suitable for younger junior school children (Key Stage 1/2), the main human character, Ravi, lets out his inner "tiger" and is described as growling and roaring when he has a temper tantrum and doesn't get his way. He is a human boy who acts like a wild tiger when he is angry.

ii. The Donut That Roared by Joan Brasher and Jackson Brasher: This book is aimed at helping children cope with the fear and noise of an MRI machine, which the main human character, a boy named Jackson, visualizes as an "obnoxious, noisy donut" that "roared". The roaring is an imaginative description of the machine's sound, conceptualized by the human character.

iii. When the Mountains Roared by Jess Butterworth: This middle-grade novel, suitable for Years 4-6, features a human protagonist named Ruby who moves to the mountains of India. While the roaring in the title and description likely refers to the natural elements or perhaps leopards, the story centers entirely around human characters and their interactions, with "roared" used in an evocative sense within the title and descriptive language.

iv. Sullivan, Who Is Always Too Loud by Micol Ostow: This picture book's title character is a human boy, Sullivan, who has a very loud voice and learns when it is appropriate to use it. While it doesn't explicitly use the word "roared" in the search snippets, the theme of a loud human character fits a similar query intent.