What an incredible Book Week it has been! From thrilling stories by visiting authors, to imaginative adventures, we’ve celebrated the magic of reading together. Thank you to everyone who joined in the fun – whether you dressed up as your favourite character, shared a story, or simply delved into a good book.

Our Book Fair was a huge success, each sale earned rewards for our school to order literacy resources for the benefit of all our students and teachers. We greatly appreciated our visitors and hope that you are enjoying new books, or perhaps jotting down ideas for writing a story using new journals and pens.

Next big thing on the Library agenda is the wrap up of The Premier’s Reading Challenge. The challenge for 2025 closes to students on Friday 19^th September. All our students in Kindergarten, Year 1 and 2 have completed their challenge, such a wonderful achievement through reading books. Please email cecilia.jago@syd.cathoilic.edu.au if your child would like assistance with logging books they have read this year, or alternatively they can pop into the Library and see us.

We have some displays in the Library at the moment, including a book that was printed and bound in 1753!  It has beautiful illustrations and sketches of maps, plants, and buildings. Students can observe the typed text in the book and how the use of the English language is a little different to what we write and use today. There is also a book from the year 1943, which is possibly one of the first books on the shelves for Marist Sacred Heart Primary’s Library when the school moved to this site.

These books are treasures that we are still able read today. It shows that if we do look after books, just how long they can last for everyone to read and enjoy for many to come.

Let’s carry this love of reading with us all year long and keep turning pages to new worlds, ideas and dreams.

HAPPY READING!

Cecilia Jago & Josie Spano