National Simultaneous Story-time (NSS)

On Wednesday May 21, Windsor SS participated in National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS). This year’s story was The Truck Cat by Deborah Frenkel. It had a lovely message of belonging, home, migration and starting over. It was lovely to see so many students enjoy the beautiful weather to listen to the story being read by Ms Arneil, Mrs O’Donoghue and Mrs Mattsson at various locations throughout the school. It has been a popular title amongst students, with three copies borrowed out already!

Thank you to the parents and students who sent in photos of their cats for our display. Come and check out the display and enjoy reading aloud with your child. The Library is open each morning from 8:30am.

Premier’s Reading Challenge

The Premier’s Reading Challenge for 2025 helps to encourage students to develop a love of reading.

Children and students can participate in the challenge by recording each book they read from May until August 22.

The form can be downloaded and then printed from the following link:

https://readingchallenge.education.qld.gov.au/register/Documents/school-reader-record-form.pdf

Students who complete the challenge have their efforts recognised with a Certificate of Achievement which will be distributed in October. We are bringing some house spirit to the challenge this year, more details will follow in the next newsletter

Reader’s Cup

The countdown is on for our Year 6 teams to head off to Reader’s Cup in a couple of weeks. They have been busy reading the stories allocated for Reader’s Cup 2025. Their team names are being decided this week and they are waiting in anticipation for their big day in June.

Overdue Books

Please have a look around your house for any overdue library books. We LOVE it when they come back home to the Library! Currently, there are over one hundred overdue books. Let’s see if we can reduce that number in the next few weeks.