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Angus and Robertson bookstore are asking for children to vote for their all time favourite bookand to go into the running to win some fantastic prizes.

Everyday, two lucky winners will have their choice of either a 1GB iPod shuffle, a DVD and book pack or an Angus and Robertson $50 gift card. 

Each week, there is the chance to win a Digital Camera, Guitar Hero or Nintendo DS Lite and Brain Train Game.

Go to www.kidstop50.com.au and register. There are games to play and links to popular book series and movie trailers.

Once again the Premier’s Reading Challenge is under way. Several children have already started reading.

Kindergarten Samuel Luo

Year 1 Wendy Dai and Bipandeep Banga

Year 2 Stephanie Hunt, Ema Martin, Anthony Bao, Jadon Yip

Year 3 Kobi Campbell, Tina Dai, Daniel Luo and Lillian Nguyen, Gurkanwall Singh, Vanessa Luong, Angela Tran

Year 5 Roy Li, Sahill Narayan, Yassin Aazouze

Good luck to these children and it’s never too late to join in the challenge.

During 2008, in partnership with Scholastic, Padstow Park Primary School earned $1,315 in Book Club rewards for classrooms and $601 from Book Fair. This is a total of $1,916 in rewards and resources to our school. These rewards have been made possible through the purchases of books, from Book Club and the annual Book Fair during Book Week, by the children and families of Padstow Park Primary School. This has been a great effort. Congratulations. It is really good to see that so much support to reading is happening at our school.

Congratulations to the following children who successfully completed the Summer Reading Program held through Bankstown City Library over the holidays:

Raymond Du read 91 books

Sophia Huang read 60 books

Faika Kanafani read 160 books

Daniel Luo read 32 books

Samuel Luo read 20 books

David Lu read 40 books

What a great effort from all of these children.

Congratulations to KF for being the first class to return all their books before the end of term.

KF were rewarded with chocolate ice creams. Look on the KF class blog for a photo of them enjoying their ice creams.

Great work KF. Let’s see which class can be the winner in Term 4.

Book Fair

Thank you to the students and families at Padstow Park for a very successful Book Fair. A large variety of books were for sale during Book Week. The sales from this fair earnt the libray $601.80 to be placed towards buying new books and resources for the children and staff to use. Well done.

On Wednesday 20th August two people from a company called ‘Perform’ came to bring to life some books nominated for the ‘Book Week’ shortlist competition.

The theme this year for Book Week was ‘Fuel Your Mind’ so the performance was called ‘Rev It Up’.

The children sang and clapped along to the songs and some children were chosen to participate.

Everyone had a great time.