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Rochy schools bring their best to Book Week

By Emily Donohoe

Aug 25, 2025

Rochester Primary School brought a sense of adventure to its 2025 Book Week, parading around on Thursday, August 21. Photos: Jordan Townrow, Emily Donohoe.

If you did a double take last week when spotting superheroes, princesses, crayons, loraxes and inflatable dinosaurs on their way to school, you were not hallucinating.

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Rochester was a flurry of literary activity for Book Week, which ran from August 16 to 23.

Characters swapped Neverland and the DC and Marvel universes for Rochester. Photo by JORDAN TOWNROW

Up first on Thursday, August 21, Rochester Primary School and Shine Bright Kindergarten Rochester students strutted their stuff.

There were a few opportunities for a real-life Where’s Wally game, while popular Roald Dahl and Dr Seuss characters also called in.

Bec Pearse as fan favourite Koala Lou. Photo by JORDAN TOWNROW

Mem Fox’s Koala Lou was inflated for the occasion, bringing many giggles.

Down the road on Friday, August 22, it was St Joseph’s Primary School, Rochester students’ turn.

Darcie Acocks, Sophie Connelly, Macey MacFarlane and Heidi Woodfine as crayons. Photo by Emily Donohoe

Inflatable costumes were popular among staff and students, with a shark, an alien, a monkey and a few dinosaurs waddling their way around the Delany Pavilion.

The Wizard of Oz, Donkey Kong, Disney princesses and Pixar films served as outfit inspiration for some attendees.

Freddie East, Logan Carmichael, Blake Osbourne, Alex Robertson, Harry Carmichael and staff member Bianca Robins. Photo by Emily Donohoe

On the whole, Rochester’s Book Week events took participants and attendees out of the playground and into the pages, fitting the 2025 theme, ‘Book an Adventure’.