Wildlife Storybook

Wildlife Storybook Launch 2025.jpg

Empowering Year 5 children to create and share stories about local wildlife, fostering a deeper connection with nature. Through research, writing and illustration, students highlight the vital role of native animal species for a healthy eco-system. 

  • Year 5 students only.
  • Council educators deliver incursions to communicate the year’s book theme and build knowledge on the unique behaviours, features and habitats of the animal species chosen for each school.
  • Selected student stories and artworks are published in a storybook and invited to the book launch held in November.
  • Previous years’ books can be purchased for $10 or borrowed at any Council Library or local primary school.  Selected editions can be downloaded below.
  • 2026 book theme is the species that live in the ground layer of habitat(PDF, 264KB)
  • Contact env.schools@willoughby.nsw.gov.au for further enquiries or participation.

     

Downloadable editions

 Storybook 2025.jpg(PDF, 8MB) Storybook 2024.jpg(PDF, 8MB)
 Storybook 2023.jpg(PDF, 13MB)  Willoughby Wildlife Storybook 2022(PDF, 15MB)   
 Storybook 2021(PDF, 7MB)    Wildlife Storybook 2020(PDF, 8MB)  
 Willoughby Wildlife Storybook 2019(PDF, 5MB)    Willoughby Wildlife Storybook 2018(PDF, 7MB)  

Learning outcomes

 Learning area Learning outcomes Project alignment
English Creative written texts EN3-CWT-01
Plans, creates and revises written texts for multiple purposes and audiences through selection of text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and world-level language.

Vocabulary EN3-VOCAB-01
Extends Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, morphological analysis and generating precise definitions for specific contexts.
  • Write creative stories about local wildlife in various formats, while communicating key conservation themes.
Science and Technology
 Creates written text to communicate understanding of scientific and technological concepts and processes ST3-CWT-01.
  • Research and develop understanding of local species, including the physical and behavioural adaptations, life cycle and threatening processes.
Creative Arts
 Makes artworks in intentional ways to represent ideas CA3-VIS-01.
  • Illustrate their stories to communicate ideas visually.
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