LIBRARY NEWS

Welcome to the first Library News for 2025. I hope you’ve all had a relaxing holiday and are looking forward to the year ahead. A special welcome to new families at Holy Trinity School; I look forward to meeting you and your child over the coming years.

The library is a special place at Holy Trinity as each week, we share great stories with our students and encourage what will hopefully be a lifelong love of reading. Primary classes come for one 50-minute library lesson each week, where we focus on literature appreciation (reading great books), information literacy (how to find and use information), and children can borrow books to read for pleasure at home.

While secondary students no longer have a library lesson each week, they can borrow during break times and often come over during English lessons. Last week, all secondary students borrowed an English text and a chapter book for quiet reading. The secondary department also has a DEAR (drop everything and read) lesson on Thursday, where students are encouraged to borrow a book for this.

General Information

Teacher Librarian: Mrs Toni Fraser

Email: invlibrary@arm.catholic.edu.au

Library Assistant: Mrs Sharon Hollis

Class Library Days:

Monday - 5F, KM, 1W

Tuesday - KD, 1M, 6D

Wednesday - 2M, 4L, 6G

Thursday - 3M, 3S, 4WL, 5B

Friday - 2D, 5M

Library Bags

Each child needs a library bag for their library lesson with their name marked on their bag. It’s important that all students (K-6) have a library bag as they protect books in their school bag from being damaged and any accidental spills. The uniform shop sells a Holy Trinity Library bag, or you can bring one from home. We love to see homemade bags, pillowcases, or even plastic bags; anything that protects books is great!

Here are Maddie and Taj with their fantastic new library bags.

Borrowing Limits

K - two books per week, return after one week (this will increase to three books in Term 2)

Year 1 & 2 - three books, return after one week

Year 3-10 - up to five books, return after two weeks

If you have any specific requests regarding your child’s reading, please leave a message with their classroom teacher or email me at invlibrary@arm.catholic.edu.au

Scholastic Book Club

Once a term, the school participates in the Scholastic Book Club, where families can purchase books at great prices, and the library receives credit with Scholastic to purchase new books. THERE IS NO OBLIGATION TO BUY, so please don’t feel that we expect families to place an order. If you wish to order, we encourage families to use Scholastic’s cashless ordering system (called LOOP). Further information about this will be included before the first catalogue goes home later in the term.

Help! We’ve lost or damaged a book.

Firstly, if this happens, don’t worry! As a mum of four children, I understand that accidents and damage can happen, but we appreciate you letting us know so we can take the book out of your child’s name. Please send me a message via the front office, a note with your child, or an email to invlibrary@arm.catholic.edu.au

Library Break Times

Do you know how I can tell if it’s hot or cold outside? The first clue is to look at the number of students who visit the library at break time; it’s been wonderful to see how many new students have come in to enjoy the space, too. Students from Years 3-6 and 7-10 visit to relax, play games and read during their break. I love seeing so many happy faces.

These are just some students who have come into the library over the last week. Welcome to the new Year 3 students, too. It’s great to see you!