Book club Issue 5 - Book Club Issue 5 2024  orders are now open. To order the books and find out more about Scholastic, please follow the link below. 

..The theme for Book Week 2024 is "Reading is Magic".. 

Throughout the month of August, community organisations, schools and libraries around the country will take part in Children’s Book Week, celebrating the joys of reading for pleasure with classroom activities, competitions, storytelling sessions and, of course, the popular school book parade.

Reading for pleasure has a range of benefits for children and young people. Reading can enhance literacy skills, and has a positive direct effect on academic reading motivation and achievement in later childhood and adolescence. 74% of children agree that reading helps them understand the world better, and 86% of children (age 6-17) said they loved being read books aloud at home or liked it a lot – the main reason being because it is a special time with parents.

At SJV, we will celebrate our book week Monday 26th - Friday 30th August and our Book Week parade is Thursday 29th August before we go into school.  

More details to follow next week.