BOOK WEEK @ HOLY CROSS IN 2025

One glorius week of the year!

Week 7: Monday 25th August to Friday 29th August

Reading opens so many different avenues and opportunities. We love Book Week and highlighting the importance of reading at Holy Cross! It’s a time to share our enthusiasm for reading, literature, books, authors and illustrators. At Holy Cross, we believe reading is so important that it is our compulsory home learning activity across all year levels.

THE GREAT BOOK SWAP

The Year 5 Community Crew and the Library Team will be working together to facilitate ‘The Great Book Swap’. This social justice project celebrates reading and raises much-needed funds to buy books for remote Australian communities. This year we will be supporting ROOP (Reading Out Of Poverty). All funds raised will help our local Yarrabah community with 5 pop-up libraries and 2,500 culturally inclusive books to support Indigenous children with stories that reflect their identity and empower families to build strong reading cultures at home.

How does it work?

STEP 1: Collection Phase (Week 7) - bring in a pre-loved book

In Week 7 during Book Week, children bring in a pre-loved book in good condition with a gold coin donation to the library before school. The Community Crew will be there to look after the collection. All money raised will go directly to ROOP. Children get to enjoy the gift of giving, helping others and experience stewardship.

STEP 2: Swap Phase (Week 8) - choose one pre-loved book

All children who have donated a book with a gold coin donation, will get to choose a book from the swap table of pre-loved books for their personal library on Week 8 Friday 5th September. Books bring such joy, anticipation and excitement as you will see in the video below.

STEP 3: Reading Phase - read, read, read!

Click on the link below to view one of our previous Great Book Swaps.

BOOK WEEK DRESS UP DAY - Friday 29th August

Dress up either as your favourite BOOK character and bring the book
OR
Dress in the 2025 theme “Book an Adventure”

Click on the link below to see travel pics of our staff on their adventures because reading takes you places.

We will celebrate the end of the week with our Book Week Assembly and all things books. We strongly encourage all students to participate. It is a truly fun day. We would love families to be creative and sustainable with their dress up ideas. I know for some families Book Week costume design is an exciting family activity.

Please note for safety reasons, students are required to wear closed in shoes and sun safe clothing. They will need to wear their school hat at play time.

Families are encouraged to come and watch the Assembly. Alternatively, join our webinar to see all of the fabulous dress ups. There will be many photos taken and shared with families.

Remember, Reading is Awesome!!

Jo Neil
Teacher Librarian