Library News
Dear HT Community,
What an absolute fabulous few weeks we have had in the build up to Book Week 2025… Congratulations to the fabulous authors and illustrators who took out the “Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner” prizes for 2025 – such an achievement.
Week 3 :
Friday 8th August - Katrina Nannestad
We were blessed to have Katrina Nannestad, an incredibly popular and well-loved author at Holy Trinity. Katrina has written 44 books, and Holy Trinity has 25 of these in our library.
The first session was with Years 3 and 4. Katrina chatted with the students about her first book ‘Bungaloo Creek’ and then how it took 8 years of rejections before her publisher accepted another book. She told the children that writing is a skill that need to be practised and perfected. Katrina likes to put three ideas/ things together to inspire a story.
Katrina got Alex to dress up as a character from her series ‘The Travelling Bookshop’ and Mila to dress up as the principal out of the series ‘Olive of Groves’. It was a great session.
The second session was with the Year 5 and 6 classes and was based on her historical fiction novels from ‘We are Wolves’ to ‘All things beautiful’. Katrina takes three months to research these books and then is ready to write, Katrina likes to become the main character in the book as she writes. She read snippets from her books and provided a great power point presentation.
Thanks to Voilet B, Juliet F, Eva M, Dan T and Steve L for welcoming and farewelling Katrina from our school – you were all perfect.
Week 5:
Monday 18th August - Perform Education Production
Georgia and Adam from Perform Education put on two incredible 60-minute shows. ELC to Year 2 and then Year 3 to Year 6. The children were fantastic and really enjoyed the singing, dancing and acting. The production ‘Treasure Hunt’ was based around the forest and sea losing their voices and both trying to outdo the other. Book Week books were threaded through the story using songs and acting. Messages of walking together, caring for the environment and the fact that we all come from somewhere else were covered. We all had a great afternoon and student involvement was excellent.
Wednesday 20th August – The Holy Trinity Book Week Parade, Awards Ceremony and Staff Production….
By 8.30am the car park was full, parents were ready to go, and the blacktop was filled with every outfit imaginable- from Mary Poppins, to an elephant carer, quite a few princess characters, soccer players and star wars characters. We had Ruby Red Shoes, The Crayons, a green sheep, Minecraft friends, the book Greaf, a lone soldier with a bunch of flowers, Wednesday Adams, the Whimpy Kid, the Soul Surfer, Itty Bitty Kitten, a very camouflaged soldier, Mr Men x 4, The Bin Chicken, a Red Balloon, a huge cake and a box of popcorn, a silver lining cloud, Paddington, a human book to read … the list goes on but it was the best ever. Thank you, beautiful families, for the huge amount of work you did to make the day so fabulous for your children and HT – we see you xxx. Also, a big shout out to DJ McCann for keeping us all dancing.
After much singing, dancing and laughing we said farewell to our parents and guests and headed into the hall for the serious side of the day – announcing the ‘Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner’ books and honour books for 2025 - it wasn’t that serious and there were lots of laughs. After the formalities we got some children up on the stage to tell us all about their outfits. Photos taken and a bit of dancing done.
To conclude the celebrations the staff then put on their annual Book Week Play ‘Goldilocks and the Three Little Bears’ (with quite a few twists and even turns). It was hysterical and often off script, but the children laughed and laughed. The director cringed but it all worked out - Mr Roweth was Goldilocks, and the Three Bears were from another school :), the Rappers were brilliant and the hall chase was crazy. Thanks to Mrs. White for the accompanying slide show and soundtrack.
Next week I will include photos of the Book Week Parade ‘Best Dressed’ and the fabulous Fairy House entries and winners (which will be judged tomorrow, at lunch)
God Bless Good Readers, Great Parents and Gorgeous Children xx
Kate Mertz x