Book Fair and Grandparents Morning Tea
The Scholastic Book Fair and Grandparents and Older Friends Morning Tea was held last Friday in the Lacey Library. It was a wonderful day for our school community with many families taking the opportunity to buy books, enjoy a fantastic morning tea, and spend some nice time together.

There were many helpers who enabled the Book Fair to be so successful. Thank you to Tanya McPherson, Claire Pholi, Belinda Reynolds, Melissa Harvey and Melissa Carroll for coordinating the sale of books.

The morning tea parent helpers were also very busy and a big thank you goes to Alejandra Tapia, Anne Mattappallil and Sally Aksenov for setting up and restocking the morning tea tables.

Thank you to all the families who donated food for the morning tea. There was an amazing selection of food and your generosity is greatly appreciated.

Thank you Emma McEvoy for your assistance in the lead up to the Book Fair, and supplying refreshments for our parent helpers.

The Year 5 Library Monitors were excellent helpers before, during and after the fair. Many visitors to our school were impressed by their confidence, maturity and friendliness. Thank you also to the Year 6 students who helped pack away tables and chairs after the morning tea.

A special thank you to Lynne Patmore, for her time, guidance and support before, during and after the Book Fair.

Thank you to the staff of Mt Carmel, for your support before the fair, and for allowing interruptions in your school day.

A very big thank you to everyone who bought books at the Book Fair. We had excellent sales of around $10,000 which will allow for many wonderful books to be purchased for the Lacey Library collection.

It was lovely to be part of the 2025 Book Fair and I hope you all had an enjoyable time.

Morning Tea containers and plates
All of the containers with names have been returned to families, however, we have a small number of plates and containers in the front office to collect after the Grandparents Morning Tea. Please call into the office to collect your items.

NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge 2025
The NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge has commenced for 2025. All students K-6 are invited to complete the 2025 Challenge. 

The Challenge aims to encourage a love of reading for leisure and pleasure in students. While completing the challenge students are able to experience quality literature from a variety of authors and literature styles.

Students can include books read from the end of the 2024 challenge, August 23 2024 on their 2025 reading record. The 2025 challenge will conclude on Friday 22 August 2025.

The booklist has been updated for the 2025 challenge. Click on the booklist on the website for further information. Many of the PRC books are available in our school library.

The Premier’s Reading Challenge website has reset all previously participating students' usernames and passwords. If your child has completed the challenge previously they will not be able to use their previous usernames and passwords.

I will distribute the new passwords to students who completed the challenge in 2024. Once you have your new login details you will be able to start completing your 2025 Reading Log online.

www.premiersreadingchallenge.nsw.edu.au

If your child is completing the challenge for the first time in 2025 or you are returning to the challenge after not completing it in 2025, please email me at natalie.broers@cg.catholic.edu.au and I will provide you with login details.

Kind regards,
Natalie Broers
Teacher Librarian