We held our Great Book Swap yesterday (17/9) and it was a fantastic success! Not only in terms of raising money for a worthy cause, but because of the buzz and excitement it created with our students! We raised approximately $350 for The Indigenous Literacy Foundation! Thanks to everyone for their support!
EXCITING NEWS!
THE GREAT BOOK SWAP IS COMING TO HOLY TRINITY!
Holy Trinity is participating in the 2024 Great Book Swap, a fundraising activity that supports the Indigenous Literacy Foundation and their works with remote Communities across Australia. The Indigenous Literacy Foundation is a charity that works with 424 remote Communities to supply books and literacy resources, and publish books in First Languages by and for First Nations Peoples.
The Great Book Swap is a fantastic way to celebrate reading locally, learn more about Indigenous culture, and raise funds for a great cause.
WHEN: Tuesday 17th September (during our book week celebrations)
WHERE: Holy Trinity Library
TIME: To be advised
HOW IT WORKS:
We ask that students bring a book or two (to be donated) before the event and a gold coin or note to school on the 17th September. Our fundraising site also allows you to make an online donation to your school’s Great Book Swap in the lead up to the event. Use the QR code for the link to our online donation portal and where you can find more information. On the 17th September the students bring their gold coin and are able to choose a book to take home.
Please only books that are in reasonable condition! Students can either bring them to the library or place them in a tub located in the foyer of the school.
Please contact Wilma Honeysett @whoneysett@htws.catholic.edu.au if you have any queries and thank you for your support!
Look out for your child’s wish list in their school bag! They should be coming home on Thursday 16th or Friday 17th of November.
The book fair is open on Friday 17th Nov. from 3pm to 4pm.
Monday 19th Nov. from 8.30am to 9am & 3pm to 4pm.
Tuesday 20th Nov. from 8.30am to 9am & 3pm to 4pm.
Wednesday 21st Nov. from 8.30am to 9am & 3pm to 4pm.
Parents, Grandparents & students most welcome!
The Book Week theme for this year was: READ GROW INSPIRE!
The students wrote on a leaf a character from a book or person that inspired them or that they admire and it was lovely to see our ‘tree’ grow! Some of their inspirations were: Harry Potter, The Hobbit, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Ahn Do, Matilda, Taylor Swift, Ella Diaries, LeBron James, Messi and many more…..
The students enjoyed many activities throughout the week organised by Mrs Dowling, with the highlight being the book week parade! Here are some of the photos…….
Over the school holidays the garden has grown like crazy! Especially the zucchinis! Some giant ones grew, as can be seen in the photos. I’d like to say a special thank you to Sharon Hunter for watering the garden over the holidays. Without her assistance, the garden wouldn’t be growing as well. As you can see from the photos the tomatoes, zucchinis and pumpkins are all growing very well.
Even though the garden was very quiet over Winter we still managed to harvest a bumper crop of snow peas and about 4 good sized beetroot! However, the turnips weren’t quite as we’d expected! Let’s just say they got a little ‘too friendly’! This apparently happens when the soil is too compacted for them to grow freely. The children really enjoyed picking and eating the snow peas straight from the vines! Yum! We also grew a great crop of spring onions that I didn’t take photos of.
The Book Fair was a huge success!
The children had an exciting time looking at all the books and filling in their wish lists. The total sales amounted to just over $5600!!
This equates to nearly $1700 worth of new resources for the library!
I am blown away by the generosity of parents and I want to say a huge thank you for supporting the book fair! Our goal of $4000 worth of sales was well and truly smashed!
COMPETITION WINNERS!
The winners of our book fair competitions were announced on Friday 4th November!
Prep: Madison Lepore Prep Yellow
Year 1: Matilda Bell 1 Blue
Year 2: Courtney Ioannides 2 Blue
Each of these students won a $10 voucher to spend at the book fair!
Students in years 3-6 needed to guess the amount of pages in these 5 books.
There were 1633 pages in total.
Each of these students won a $15 voucher to spend at the book fair!
Year 3 Blue: Hudson Booth
Year 3 Yellow: Fred Humble
Year 4 Blue: Madison Stephens
Year 4 Yellow: Ava Bornman
Year 5 Blue: Tyler Gleeson
Year 5 Yellow: Dekyn Foley-Johnson
Year 6 Blue: Mya Devlin
Year 6 Yellow: Angel Jacobs
Each winner has received a $15 voucher to spend at the book fair.
The children were soooo excited to come to the Book Fair! Look out for your child/ren’s wish list in their school bag. On their wish list you will see the item name, the price and the location (BC1 or table). BC or bookcase indicates which number bookcase the item/s are from. Below you will see photos of all the bookcases (numbered at the top) so that you can see what your child/ren would like to buy. There is no obligation to buy, however every purchase earns the school a commission, which allows us to purchase more resources for the library. Please use this link to make a purchase https://parentpayments.scholastic.com.au/BookFairs; write the receipt number on the back of the wish list. This year we are also accepting cash payments. Give the wish list to your child to bring back to school and I can then send the items home. If there are any items that parents would like to purchase as gifts, or for any queries please email me at whoneysett@htws.catholic.edu.au (or call the school after 2pm each day) and I can make arrangements for you to pick them up. Some of the more popular items may sell out quickly, so they will be placed on backorder and sent home ASAP! Thank you for your support!
BOOK FAIR COMPETITION YEARS 3-6 2022
FOR THIS YEARS BOOK FAIR STUDENTS IN YEARS 3-6 ARE PARTICIPATING IN A COMPETITION.
THEY NEED TO GUESS THE NUMBER OF PAGES IN THESE 5 BOOKS! THE CLOSEST GUESS TO THE ACTUAL AMOUNT WINS A $15 VOUCHER TO SPEND AT THE FAIR!
ONE WINNER CHOSEN FROM EACH YEAR LEVEL!
WINNERS ANNOUNCED ON 4TH NOVEMBER
GOOD LUCK!
For this year’s book fair the Prep’s, Year One and Two students can participate in a colouring competition!
They can choose 1 of 4 pictures to colour in and there will be one winner chosen from each year level. Each winner will receive a $10 voucher to spend at the book fair!
Please put your name and year level on the entry. Only one entry is allowed per student. Entries need to be in by Thursday 3rd November, with winners announced on Friday 4th November. Parents look out for your child’s colouring page in their blue pouch!
Good luck and happy colouring!
AND THE WINNERS ARE!
BOOK OF THE YEAR-YOUNGER READERS
A GLASSHOUSE OF STARS
BY SHIRLEY MARR
Penguin Random House Australia
BOOK OF THE YEAR-EARLY CHILDHOOD
JETTY JUMPING
BOOK OF THE YEAR-PICTURE BOOK OF THE YEAR
ICEBURG
BOOK OF THE YEAR-NEW ILLUSTRATOR
THE BOY WHO TRIED TO SHRINK HIS NAME
Michelle Pereira
text. Sandhya Parappukkaran
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing
If anyone would like more information about these or any of the honour books here is the link: https://cbca.org.au/winners-2022
On Wednesday 25th May Holy Trinity students, along with nearly 2,ooo,ooo other children around Australia and New Zealand joined in with NSS. NSS is a free event organised by the Australian Library & Information Assoc. (ALIA) each year. This year the children listened to the story Family Tree written by Josh Pyke & illustrated by Ronojoy Ghosh. The children had the opportunity to listen to a few different people reading the book, my favourite being the AUSLAN version. Below are some photos of the some of the children listening to the story and the artwork response from 4 Blue.
