Library Bags

It’s no secret that regular reading has stacks of benefits for your child’s growing mind: development of literacy, imagination, focus, social and communication skills, to name a few. Your child will be carrying books home constantly – that’s where a great kids’ library bag comes in.

A dedicated library bag or satchel keeps your child’s borrowed reads safe and separate from their other belongings whilst travelling to and from school – it’s an important item in their school bag! A library bag needs to be hard-wearing, so seek out something well-made with strong materials, as well as one that is waterproof. This helps to keep books protected from drink bottles and food items in school bags.

If your child does not already own a library bag, please purchase one asap. Waterproof library bags can be purchased from shops such as Officeworks (see here), Best & Less (see here), or Kmart (see here). You can also order personalised ones from various online stores.

Thank you for helping to ensure your child has their named library bag ready for each library lesson!

Book Clubs for 2025

This year, we are trialling a new book club through one of Canberra’s local book shops, The Book Cow. This will be the first book club of every term, and we will continue to have Scholastic Book Club as the second book club each term. When you purchase books through either book club, our school gets a commission that we can use to purchase new books for our library. However, there is never any obligation to order. 

The Book Cow’s book club catalogues will be coming home in the next week or so. This book club will be run in a similar way to Scholastic. Parents will be able to order online, following the details on the back of the book club catalogue. The Book Cow staff will be conducting weekly drop-offs to our school. Our school will receive a 15% credit of the total sales to spend on new books for our library. Families will also receive a 5% credit on any purchases they make. Please note that some of the books listed in the catalogue are due for release at a later date, so you will need to wait until their publication date for those books to be delivered to our school.

As this is the first book club that The Book Cow is running, please send any feedback about the process to the Education Team at schools@bookcow.com.au or to me at sally.judd@cg.catholic.edu.au, and I can pass it on.

Thank you,

Miss Judd