Literacy News

Book Week News & Competitions

We need Pre-loved Books

We are looking for pre-loved books that you no longer need for our Great Book Swap. If you have books that need a new home, please consider donating to this great cause. Books can be delivered to the office or place them in the box in the BER building. 

The Great Book Swap - Monday 19th August

This year Donvale Primary School is participating in the 2024 Great Book Swap, a fundraising activity that supports the Indigenous Literacy Foundation and their works with remote Communities across Australia. The Indigenous Literacy Foundation is a charity that works with 424 remote Communities to supply books and literacy resources, and publish books in First Languages by and for First Nations Peoples. 

We have been assigned to the Bigibigi house! Bigibigi means pig in Kriol, a ‘new’ Indigenous language spoken across the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland.

Children are encouraged to donate pre-loved books to the school. Please bring these books to the office or send them in with your child to give to their classroom teacher. On Monday 19th August as part of book week, the children can look through the donated books and for a gold coin donation, select a book that they can keep and enjoy. All money raised will be donated to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.

If you’d like more information about the Indigenous Literacy Foundation please click here. To donate to this great cause, please visit our school donation page.

Thank you for your support and we look forward to celebrating the national Great Book Swap with you, your child and the school community. Happy swapping!

Lions Junior Public Speaking Competition

We had the Shepparton branch of the Lions club come and chair our Junior Public Speaking competition that was open to students from years 3-6 a couple of weeks ago. We had over 30 students present a speech to their peers and the judging panel. 

The year 5-6 students spoke for 4 mins about a person who is inspirational to them, and the year 3-4 students spoke for 3mins about a favourite fairytale or book character.  

Our students did an outstanding job, and the judges were super impressed with the standard. Congratulations to all of our students who participated. Big shout out to J.Z who won the year 5-6 comp,  and to Lily and Marley who won the year 3-4 section.  

We are hoping to make this an annual event at Donvale to continue to give our students the chance to further develop their public speaking skills. 

Writers' Festival

This term we will be holding our bi-annual Writers' Festival. This event will be held on Wednesday 18th & Thursday 19th September. The students will all be writing about 'My Treasured Possession'. 

Every child should now have selected a treasured possession that they can write about.