Congratulations again to those students who have retuned their books – 6 Gold and 3 Gold are the best of the classes so far with only 3 outstanding loans in each, well done, keep it up!!! We just need to remember to bring our Library bags in and return our overdue books – there are still 161 books not returned!

A reminder of Library days, next Term we will be borrowing again:

Tuesday – Year 3, Kindergarten, 5 Gold

Wednesday – Year 4, Year 1, 5 Green

Thursday – Year 6, Year 2

Damaged Books: If a book is damaged or torn while at home, please do not attempt to repair it. While we appreciate your efforts, we have the correct materials at school and it is easier for us, and better for the book, if we repair it here. Using sticky tape to attach torn or loose pages is not ideal. Please just ask your child to let us know, and we can fix it. The students do not get into trouble if a book is accidentally damaged, we would rather know about it so we can do something about it! If a book is damaged beyond repair, then we do ask that it either be paid for or replaced by something similar. Please try to keep the books away from younger siblings – we have had a number of books lately which have had to be thrown out because they have been scribbled in and torn, or water-damaged. Thank you for your support in this matter.

Premier's Reading Challenge: Keep up the good work, we have a few students who have already completed the challenge, and many more well under way who have logged in and registered their books read so far. Remember if you are having difficulties logging in to register the books we will fix it all next term. The website has the list of books as well as the login for each student:

https://products.schools.nsw.edu.au/prc/booklist/home.html

You can also go to our Oliver home page at oliver.dow.catholic.edu.au/miev and click on the link to take you to the website. Remember Kinder – Year 2 must read 30 books, and Years 3 - 6 must read 20, with only 5 Personal Choice books allowed.

"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him."

                                                   Maya Angelou, Poet

Mrs Sue Bryant

Teacher-Librarian