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Scholastic Book Fair August 2025
The Scholastic Book Fair is visiting our Library from Tuesday 26 August to Friday 5 September.
Learners, parents and carers can visit the Fair daily before (8:30 to 9:00) and after (3:00 to 3:30) school.
If your learner brings home a completed Wishlist and you would like to proceed with payment:
- visit this link,
- select Evelyn Scott School,
- make payment, and,
- record the eight-digit receipt number.
When the learner brings the receipt number to Anna in the library, they will be able to take their purchase from the stock on the shelves.
Thank you for your generosity as the library receives a generous credit for every dollar spent that feeds back into our collection.
In 2025, The Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) celebrates its 80th year of bringing young people and books together through Book Week (16 to 23 August). The theme for Book Week 2025 is Book an Adventure and the featured illustrator is Jess McGeachin.
Please find linked an overview of the events being held at Evelyn Scott School to celebrate Australian authors, illustrators and publishers.
Scholastic Book Club Issue 4 has been issued to learners.
Orders can be placed using the LOOP system.
Orders close on Tuesday 26 June 2026.
Every order placed benefits our school library.
Please contact Anna Bodle in the library for more information.
Recreational reading is key to achieving and sustaining academic outcomes as well as a whole range of social and emotional benefits. The slowed pace of the school holidays affords our learners some extra time to read for pleasure and we encourage them to do so. The attached infographic summarises advice from librarians and literacy academics about how to support children to read for fun.
Sora is an excellent resource where learners can borrow free electronic books and audiobooks from the central ACT Education Directorate collection. Listening to audiobooks is shown to stimulate the same parts of a learner’s brain as reading a book does and it’s a lovely thing to do while playing lego, crafting or relaxing.
Libraries ACT offer more ideas to reignite reading for pleasure behaviours in children with a range of free activities as well as a massive collection for children and young adults. With branches all over Canberra, these represent fun and cheap book-based outings.
Finally, where families can, take the time to engage with environmental print as you move through your holidays. Pour over maps, share menus, write cards and shopping lists, read road signs, ponder food labels, figure out recipes. These actions will benefit oral language development, letter and phonemic awareness, vocabulary knowledge as well as a swathe of other literacy outcomes.
The Library wishes all the Evelyn Scott School community a happy and safe holiday.
Chief Minister's Reading Challenge 2026
The annual CMRC encourages learners to read with the theme "Spaces and Places Where We Read". The promotional materials in 2026 showcase a partnership between the ACT Education Directorate and graphic design students from the Canberra Institute of Technology. They celebrate the beautiful natural landscape of the ACT and our wonderful Australian flora and fauna.
The library has registered all our Evelyn Scott School learners, and you can find all the resources needed to help complete the Challenge at 2026 CMRC. Learners can complete the standard challenge (P-6 or 7-10) or challenge themselves to read something different (P-6 or 7-10). Please return recording sheets to learning group teachers or Library once completed.