While some schools in the area decided to postpone their book week activities until they were back after lockdown, others embraced the online sphere completely.

Bega Valley Public School, Sapphire Coast Anglican College, Lumen Christi Catholic College and Tanja Public School, each in different ways, encouraged students to participate in Book Week activities with their classmates over online classes.

"We thought it was really important to go ahead with our Book Week celebrations, to bring some joy and creativity to the kids while they are stuck at home," Tanja teacher Lauren Spindler said.

Many of the schools encouraged their students to get dressed up in their favourite book characters and share it with their classmates, which teachers said helped keep the kids connected.

Tanja Public School staff said they thoroughly enjoyed seeing the creativity of the kids.

They saw a range of costumes ranging from a character out of Lord of the Rings, unicorns to a mummy out of the Goosebumps stories and more.

"The Book Week activities were incredibly successful, all the children participated beautifully and they thoroughly enjoyed getting dressed up as their favourite characters from their special books," Tanja teacher Nel Reeve said.

While classes have been delivered online, the Tanja teaching team said they felt lucky for the support they have been receiving from parents in facilitating the Zoom lessons every day, allowing them to continue teaching and connecting with the children.

"It's a fabulous way for all of us to engage with the them and their families, the children are enjoying the connection, seeing the faces of their classmates and being able to ask questions instantly," Ms Reeve said.

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At Bega Valley Public School (BVPS) the teaching staff asked their students to choose from a few creative options to partake in for Book Week.

The children could either send in a picture of themselves dressed up in their favourite book characters, make a toilet roll craft of their favourite book character, do an artwork or they could also choose to bake a cake.

"There has been some really clever and interesting ways kids have put crafts together," the school said.

BVPS music and drama teacher Candy McVeity said doing this year's Book Week online had been different and successful.

"It's usually such a great event at school, the whole school community get right behind it. So it's been interesting and you can see the kids have really engaged in it well," Ms McVeity said.

From all the entries that were put in Ms McVeity recalled some of the very creative cakes that stood out to her, including a Cat in the Hat cake and some Hungry Caterpillar decorated cupcakes.

"You could cast all this in negativity, but it's really important to stay focused on the good things for the kids, we're all working really hard to make it a really up time for them," she said.

While the main Book Week celebrations have been postponed until the children are back at school, Lumen Christi ran a few online activities to keep the kids creative.

"We had a competition that the students could enter to win a $20 voucher to Merimbula Newsagent," Lumen STEM teacher and publicity officer Danielle Lynn said.

The children also participated in a Book Week matching challenge, where they had to match the picture story book to the teacher.

An art competition was also launched where students can create a poster based on the book week theme, with entries not due until September 3.

"Years three, five and six marked Book Week with a drama performance, so they were challenged to act as their character for book week and they made some little videos and put that together," Ms Lynn said.

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Meanwhile at Sapphire Coast Anglican College, children were encouraged to attend their daily online classes in costumes as well as partake in a range of fun activities throughout the week .

Year three teacher Lynda Whyman said her students had a lovely time and came in with a range of clever costumes.

"The costumes helped engage everyone and just lightened the atmosphere a little bit," she said.

Ms Whyman also mentioned that she noticed the children interacted and connected a lot over their costume choices.

"It was good because the kids had questions for each other and were able to give good responses and encouragement to each other about their costumes."

Ms Whyman said that some of the children even changed costumes during the Zoom session which she found quite clever.

"I think the parents enjoyed it as well, they sort of all came around and had a little look at what was happening on zoom, so they could see the other kids dressed up too," she said.

Other Book Week activities included students doing book reviews, discussing who their favourite characters were and why, roleplay of characters and other interactive games.

"Our librarian, Jasmine Pope, started a competition for junior school just before we went into remote learning, asking children to put in some short stories and/or taking part in a colouring competition," Ms Whyman said.

From the competition winners included: Olive Brooker-Gunner who won best infants colouring, Astalah McMahon who won the best junior's character and short story, and in high school the best 100 words story was won by Lilly Forsyth.

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