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The Lamont Book Fair is back next week!

May 19th - May 23rd

Need some new books to read during the Kalinda Readathon? Pop into the Book Fair before or after school any day next week, and choose from hundreds of amazing books! Each purchase you make earns commission for our school, allowing us to buy fantastic books and resources for our library and the whole school.

Opening hours:

8.45am - 9am Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri

3.30 pm-3.45 pm Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri

OPEN NIGHT - special times of 5.30 pm-7 pm Tuesday 20th May

Please join us in reading and raising money for the Kids Helpline!

This May, Kalinda will be participating in Scholastic’s ‘National Family Reading Month’, by hosting our very own Kalinda Readathon! We’ll be raising much-needed funds for the Kids Helpline, while reading at school - and with our families at home!

How to sign up:

1. Go to the following link:

https://hostyourown.fundraise.kidshelpline.com.au/page/KalindaPSReadsfortheKidsHelpline

1. Scroll down until you find “Join team”.

1. Fill in your personal details as requested:

1. Then put in the information as follows:

Once done, you will receive two emails. One of these (Welcome aboard!) will have your login information at the bottom, including password. (If it doesn’t, then please click on ‘reset password’ to set a password for yourself).

Once you’ve got a password you can login.

You’re in! To change your page details so they have the names you’d like displayed (eg family surname or your child’s name):

• Click on ‘My Account’ (top right)

• Click on ‘My Fundraising’, then ‘Edit Page’

• Complete or cancel their ‘steps’

• Click on Manage Page

• Change your page link/URL (if you’d like to) by clicking the ‘edit’ button next to it
• Set your family’s fundraising target

• Change your ‘creator name’ (this will be the main display name on your fundraising page)
• And change your fundraising description - you can even include your family’s reading target for the month!

1. Hit save, and you’re ready to go! Once you’ve signed up, you’ll get an emailed link to our Kalinda Reading Log google form, and a physical Reading Log sent home. Please let us know when someone in your family has finished a book, so we can add it to our Kalinda PS tally!

1. Share your fundraising page with friends and family, and then…

1. Start reading!

Scholastic Book Club dates 2025

(subject to change)

8th June

10th August

7th September

26th October

23rd November

Happy reading!

Martina Medica,

Kalinda Library