Library News

BOOK WEEK

CBCA Book Week is coming up in Week 5 of term 3 (18-22 August).

This year celebrates the 80th anniversary of the CBCA Book Week. The theme for this year's book week is "Book an Adventure".

We will hold our annual Book Week Parade at each campus in week 5 of term 3:

Lowe St:Tues 19August at 9.10am (straight after morning assembly)
Macquoid St:Wed 20August at 9.30am

So, time to start thinking about a character to dress up as... look in your dress up box, wardrobe or the local Op-Shops for inspiration.

Costumes don’t need to be elaborate or expensive and the most imaginative ones are often ‘put together’ or constructed at home.

No prizes are awarded for costumes we just encourage everyone to dress up and join in the fun.

We look forward to seeing all of the costumes.

We will also be running some competitions in conjunction with Book Week. These will be explained to the students during their library lessons:

Short Story:

Students can write a short story with the theme 'Book an Adventure' in mind.
They will be provided with 1 double sided piece of paper with lines.
Due Tue 19 August

Design Competition:

Students can design the (inside) front page of a picture book.
They will choose one of the short-listed books that will be read to them during their library lesson.
Students will start the brainstorming in their library lesson but will need to complete the design at home.
Due Tue 19 August

The categories for the competitions will be Years 2-3 and Years 4-6, unless one year group has an overwhelming amount of entries they will be split up further. There will be prizes for each winner and it would be great for each short story winner to read it to their grade or class.

PREMIER'S READING CHALLENGE

Thank you to all of the parents that have been busy updating their child's reading records on the NSW PRC website.

We now have 168 students registered for the challenge and 93 have already finished.

Please remember that it is NOT a competition and there is still plenty of time to register and complete it.

NB: The end date has now been extended and now does not close until 19 September.

ALL students that complete the challenge will receive a certificate towards the end of term 4.

We would like to acknowledge the students from each year who completed the challenge during the past month:

K - Banskii S, Rosa C

1 - Levi S

3 - Andre A, Charlotte C, Sophie D

4 - Lilijana S

My apologies for mis-spelling some students name in previous newsletters especially Louie Y (KW) and Emmanuel B (2B).

If you have any questions, you can contact me at: natalina.ireland@cg.catholic.edu.au

LIBRARY TIMETABLE FOR TERM 3

Macquoid St:

Mon: 6G, 5R, 5G, 5B

Tues: 3W, 3G, 3B, 6B, 6R

Wed: 2g, 2R, 2B, 2W

Thu: 2r, 4W, 4R, 4B, 4G

Lowe St:

Mon: 1R, KW, 1B

Tues: 1S, KR, KS

Wed: KB, 1G, 1W, KG

Reminder: All students in Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2 MUST have a library bag if they would like to borrow books.

LAMONT BOOK FAIR

Thank you to everyone that attended or purchased books from our recent Book Fair.

It was a great success and we have been able to acquire some new and different titles.

If you have any feedback that you would like to share, please email me at: natalina.ireland@cg.catholic.edu.au

FOUNDATION NOVELS via THE BOOK COW

The Book Cow is pleased to offer all St Gregory families a 15% discount for any of the books included on the Foundation novels list for K-Y6:

Families who like to get ahead with reading or have their own copy of a text at home, will receive 15% discount off the CECG texts (excl Poetry titles) by using the discount code - CECGF2025at checkout.
This offer is exclusive to CECG families, including St Gregory's.
All orders will be delivered direct to the school and distributed to the students once received.

I’ve attached a flyer (including a QR code) for any parents that wish to take advantage of this offer.

Landing page for all CECG texts - https://shop.bookcow.com.au/c/cecg-foundation-to-yr-6-english-curriculum-catholic-education