This year we started our first ever Holy Trinity Book Club. It began in Term 1 but had a significant pause due to COVID and then resumed again in Term 3.

Fifteen children signed up for Book Club. We started off by discussing what makes a good book, why we love reading, shared books that were being read at home and we also designed an essential agreement. We then played a few games, ate food, had some hot chocolate and then selected a book that we could all read at home and discuss in our weekly Book Club gatherings. Lots of fun!

This term we were invited by Radford College to attend the first ever ‘Readers Cup’. It was to be a night time event at Radford but COVID restrictions interrupted the fun and it became an online event.  Preparations involved each Book Club member reading five books over a five week time frame – an impressive effort. We then had to form teams of four with a reserve.

The actual event took place Thursday, 15^th October (Week 1, Term 4) from 9.30am until 1.00pm. There were 20 schools involved from all around Canberra. The teams then had to answer 4 lots of 10 questions on the range of books read. Marking was done by the CBCA (Children’s Book Council of Australia) ACT branch. Holy Trinity came 13^th and 17^th overall. The teams learned a lot about reading at a deeper level and not rushing written answers. All participants were thoughtful of peers, had fun and were well mannered.