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 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!
After many weeks of anticipation the wait was finally over as HT & St. Mary’s celebrated Book Week for 2022. We celebrated with many fantastic events including teachers reading sessions in the library during recess, an exciting scavenger hunt based on characters in classic stories that we all know and the students writing a book of their own based on the major milestones of their life.
One of the major highlights of Book Week was on Thursday when everyone dressed up as their favourite characters. Everyone paraded around the assembly area and the colours of all the costumes along with the cheers of the community was amazing. The parade concluded with each student getting to read their milestone book to a student from another year level.
Another highlight of the week was when the students participated in an exciting scavenger hunt. Posters with clues about main characters in popular books were displayed around the school for everyone to find. Everyone who completed the scavenger hunt had their name put into the draw for a Dymocks book voucher. Kyan from year one was the lucky winner.
Overall, Book Week was a massive hit at HT and St. Mary’s and a big thank you must go out to our amazing literacy leader, Mrs. Dowling, who organized this exciting week.
Here is a video created by Seniora of the Book Week parade.
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.
On Monday 28 March, Holy Trinity had our first Kinder Kids Reading Session for 2022. Kinder Kids Reading Sessions take place each term and is where younger children come to visit HT and share some time with some of the older students of our school. On this occasion some of our Year 5 students were able to read with our Kinder visitors in our library. It is an exciting opportunity for both our Kinder visitors as well as our Year 5 students because some of these children may be buddies next year.
It looked like all our Kinder visitors had lots of fun with the Year 5 students as well as starting to get to know HT and some of their potential buddies in 2023.
Our next Kinder Kids Reading Session will take place on Monday 28 April.
Holy Trinity school library has a standing order subscription with Lamont Books. They are an Australian owned and operated business based in Hallam. They supply high quality books written by talented Australian authors to school libraries. We receive the orders once a month and each month we receive a box of picture fiction, primary fiction and graphic novels. Included in the subscription are teacher notes for all the books which the teachers can use for their classroom planning. Here are some pictures of the titles that will soon be available in the library.
In Year 6 the students of H.T all earn a leadership role. I am one of the Learning leaders for 2022 as well as Bec, Elliott and Melissa. Together we will help to support with many of the learning initiatives around the school.
The Learning leader responsibilities entail helping out in the library whether it’s helping the younger students with choosing books borrow or helping Mrs Honeysett put books away. The Learning leaders also will help with organising book week, numeracy week, the book fair and much more.
We are all excited to be the learning leaders of the school and we look forward to helping out around the school this year.
Here were our Learning leaders busy at work in the library today …..
The children were soooo excited to come to the Book Fair today! Some children will see it next Monday. 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) 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 and write the receipt number on the back of the wish list. Your child can then bring this to school and I can then send the items purchased home. If there are any items that parents would like to purchase as gifts, please email me at whoneysett@htws.catholic.edu.au and I can make arrangements for you to pick up them up. Thank you for your suppport!
EXCITING NEWS! THE BOOK FAIR IS COMING TO HOLY TRINITY!
From Friday November 5th to Wednesday November 10th
Although COVID restrictions will prevent us from inviting parents to come and view the books with their child/ren, students will have an opportunity to look at the books during their normal library time! During their library time, they will have the opportunity to fill in a ‘wish-list’ indicating the book/s of their choice. The children will bring these home and parents will be able to review their child’s choices and if they wish to make a purchase, payment can be made online using the details below.
PLEASE NOTE: that due to COVID restrictions, we are unable to accept cash payments.
Orders will be delivered to students at school if possible. If there is a high demand for a particular title it may be necessary for us to place the order with Scholastic and have it posted ASAP. Thanks for your understanding, we really benefit from holding the fair as we replenish the library with new books from the commission we earn. If any parent wishes to order book/s as presents, keep an eye out for the school blog, as I will be putting up photos of the books for your perusal.
whoneysett@htws.catholic.edu.au
Use this link to make a payment: ParentPayments
J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter books, has a new book available online called The Ickabog. Chapters are being added regularly – Chapters 1-5 are available now if you go to:
https://www.theickabog.com/home/
The website has a link to a competition for children aged from 7 to 12 years old to design illustrations for the hard copy of the book which is due to be published in November 2020.
Students from Australia can send their illustrations to the UK publisher.
https://www.theickabog.com/competition/
When you come back to school you may notice a few changes in the library…
We have expanded and moved the favourite series shelves to include some book boxes by popular authors. Wimpy Kids books have moved to these shelves as have other books by your favourite authors…take the time to have a look next time you visit.
We have been very busy purchasing new books and getting them ready to borrow.
Have a look at the photos – you will see just some of the books we have added to the library in the last few weeks.
This week there has been a lot of excitement around HT with the Book Fair taking place in the library.
There was multiple choices of books for different ages. Everyone was very generous with their purchasing and we made over $5000 which is an amazing result. A big thank you must go out to a generous father who donated almost $250 worth of books for our school library. As a result of all the great sales Mrs. Taylor will be able to purchase a lot of new books for our school library for 2020 and beyond.
Thank you to all the parents and staff who helped out and of course to Mrs. Taylor for all of her fabulous work to make the book fair available to our school community.
By Amelia and Jarvis
Our library has turned into a book store for our annual Scholastic Book Fair!
Students are able to visit before and after school on Monday 12/11, Tuesday 13/11 and Wednesday 14/11.
Parents are welcome anytime! Books start at $5 and suit a wide range of ages and interests.
We look forward to seeing you soon.
We have been adding to our fiction book collection so make sure you check out the new book display stands when you visit the library.
Included in our new books are several copies of The 104-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths. We were lucky enough to have an autographed copy of this book donated to the library by Zach Davy from 5/6D. A big thank you goes to Zach! Will you be lucky enough to borrow this copy?
For Adrian Beck fans (there are many at HT and St Mary’s since his visit in July) look out for Speccy-Tacular AFL stories – short stories about footy by Adrian and other fabulous authors. We also have several new copies of Alien Zoo … Good as New! – the second Alien Zoo book. Don’t forget you can reserve a copy if they are all out on loan?
We are very excited to have Adrian Beck visit our school in July to talk to students in years 1-6.
Adrian Beck writes funny, action-packed adventure stories for kids. Adrian is the author of the Alien Zoo series and the co-author of the best-selling kids’ series Kick it to Nick, with AFL Hall of Fame inductee Shane Crawford. He has also written Stuff Happens – Dale. All of Adrian’s stories are fun to read – even for kids who struggle to get interested in books.
His latest series of books – Champion Charlies ‘The Mix-Up’ and ‘Boot It’ have been developed in partnership with the Football Federation Australia to coincide with the 2018 Soccer World Cup.
Adrian can be found interviewing fellow authors on YouTube in his Adrian Becks Author Hangout series – follow the links on his website http://adrianbeck.com.au to see him interview Felice Arena, Sally Rippin, Tristan Bancks, Tim Harris and others.
Besides being an author Adrian is also a part-time TV producer having worked on The Footy Show, The Logie Awards, Prank Patrol and Kids’ WB. He uses the skills from both parts of his busy life to deliver entertaining school visits with lively, humorous and interactive sessions on writing, working in television and sport.
Our book supplier, Lamont Books, is offering our students the chance to pre-purchase Champion Charlies and Alien Zoo books so that Adrian can autograph them when he visits. Order forms are being sent home today and need to be returned by 9am Tuesday 26 June at the latest to ensure delivery to school in time for Adrian’s visit.
Book Week is almost upon us and this year’s theme is ‘Escape to Everywhere’. The 3/4’s have been sharing their thoughts on how they could use this theme to escape through their reading. Scroll down on the below doc to see some of the student’s reflections.
Some statistics for you:
It is not too late to join the Reading Challenge. If you took part last year you can start reading straight away – your card details are the same.
There are enrolment forms on the circulation desk if you would like to take part for the first time. Anyone who wants their name in the online honour roll at the end of the challenge needs to have one of these forms signed by a parent and returned to school.
Anyone who completes the challenge gets a special certificate and book mark at assembly. These fabulous readers also have the chance at winning one of 4 Book Club $25 book vouchers to use in Book Club or at our annual Book Fair in November.
On the 23rd of November, 5/6 W, 1/2MC and 1/2C gathered together in the library to share books that show Diversity. The 5’s and 6’s each got assigned to a couple of the 1/ 2’s each and shared our thoughts on diversity in our library books. The 1’s and 2’s listened to what the 5/ 6’s had to say and they answered questions they asked. The next activity was to find a book on the shelves that showed diversity. The 1/ 2’s task was to show the older students where the diversity was and to prove it using the text or illustrations. The 1/ 2’s did very well answering the questions and proved their thoughts about diversity in picture books quite well. They showed deep thinking and were well behaved. The 5/6s enjoyed sharing their learning and spending their afternoon with the 1/2s.
By Chloe and Rosh (5/6W)
