Bulldog NYC players Denzel King, Michael Morgan, Luke Vella, Kyle Krisanski-Kennedy and Tautalatasi Tasi visited Bankstown Library today to participate in Australia's biggest single storytelling session.
Players and Ambassadors from the Bulldogs, Eels, Raiders, Sea Eagles, Sharks, Storm and Titans will read in libraries, classrooms, a learning centre and the two zoos in person and by video conference as part of the Australian Library and Information Association’s annual National Simultaneous Storytime.
This year more than 410,000 Years 2-4 schoolchildren at over 2300 locations across the country will have Ursula Dubosarsky’s Too Many Elephants in This House read to them at 11am today (Wednesday), making it Australia’s biggest single simultaneous storytime since its inception in 2000.
NRL Head of Community, Adam Check, said: “National Simultaneous Story Time is a program that the NRL is incredibly proud to be associated with as part of our Community, Culture and Diversity program.
“We fundamentally believe that the profile of the game and its players can have a positively profound influence in the community, particularly in key areas such as education.
“It is particularly exciting to see schools in remote and rural settings involved in the event through the use of video conferencing because these communities are such an integral part of the Rugby League family.”