Library News 

Library Overdue Books

Can all overdue school library books please be returned to school as soon as possible. There are currently approximately 200 books overdue from 2021. There are also another 100 overdue books from prior years.

Please have a look at home.

Thank you

 

 

Victorian Premiers' Reading Challenge 2021

The certificates have arrived from last year's Victorian Premiers' Reading Challenge.

They will be given out at the next assembly on Friday 25th February.

 

The 2022 Victorian Premiers' Reading Challenge will commence in a few weeks time.

Start keeping a record of all books read from the 1st February, 2022.

 

If you wish for your child to enter the Challenge, please email me with their details:

Name, Class, Year level and Contact email address. Log in details will then be forwarded.

mdecata@srprestonwest.catholic.edu.au

 

 

Important dates 2022

 

Victorian Premiers' Reading Challenge           February - September 2022

ALIA National Simultaneous Story time          25th May 2022

Every year a picture book, written and illustrated by Australians is read simultaneously all over Australia and the world.

 

 

CBCA Book Week         20 - 26 August 2022

 

There are six categories in the CBCA Book of the Year Awards. 

  • CBCA Book of the Year: Older Readers
  • CBCA Book of the Year: Younger Readers
  • CBCA Book of the Year: Early Childhood
  • CBCA Picture Book of the Year
  • Eve Pownall Award (Non-Fiction)
  • CBCA Award for New Illustrator 

 

 

Contact details

 

Maria De Cata

Resource Officer/Education Support

mdecata@srprestonwest.catholic.edu . au