Lamont Book Fair 

This morning our Lamont Book Fair opened with students purchasing some great reads for the holidays. This is a Melbourne-based company that will provide us with a different selection of books from previous book fairs. All sales at the book fair support the purchase of new books for the library collection. We have extended opening hours from 8am - 9am and 3.15pm - 5pm each day. The fair runs from today through until Wednesday 28 June. Lamont also has an online portal where you can pay and we will be notified and deliver the books to your child. We look forward to seeing you in the library getting some great holiday reads. 

CBCA Shadow Judging 

St Monica’s is participating in the Children's Book Council of Australia Shadow Judging Project. This is a CBCA initiative to engage children in the judging process. 

A group of 9 Year 4 students will join groups across Australia, to dive deeply into the Shortlisted books and express their opinions and share their responses as judges “shadowing” the CBCA Judges. The group will use the same criteria to reflect on literary values and to champion their choices. Within the group they will collaborate and develop their own creative response to books and share this with the community. The group will be looking at the Early Childhood Book category. 

Last Thursday the St Monica's CBCA Shadow Judging Group had a wonderful afternoon with other Shadow Judging groups listening to local author Amelia McInerney talk about writing books and her creative responses to the books.