Nor'West News: July 19, 2016

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Tuesday July 19 2016
SCHOOLS
NOR’WEST NEWS
2100 books destined
for children in need
HEADING TO RIO: Former St Albans Catholic School pupil
Caitlin Dore has been selected to represent New Zealand
at the Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro in September. Ms Dore
is going to visit the school again to showcase her specialist
javelin skills. Principal Annette Sjoberg (right) said she and the
rest of the school will be following her Olympic dream with
interest.
RANGI RURU Girls’ School
student Livvy Pride has been the
driving force behind a project
to collect more than 2000 books
which will be gifted to children
in need.
With a goal of inspiring
greater widespread generosity of
spirit, Livvy together with the
book club and library committee
set a goal of collecting 500
books.
She said it would be an effective
way to support schools in
her own community who aren’t
as fortunate.
“I figured that at a school like
ours there would be lots of girls
lucky enough to have books that
they don’t need any more,” she
said.
She said originally the book
club and librarians were going
to have a bookarama in which
people would bring in books
and sell them on to give the
money to a charity, however, the
library committee and staff decided
it would be more effective
to give the books directly.
All up they gathered more
than 2100 books including children’s
chapter books and picture
books, which surprised them.
“Originally we didn’t have an
GIVING BACK: The year 13 book committee (left to right)
Karen Zhang, Megan Liddell, Kirstin Liddell, Livvy Pride
and Bea Pallett have collected over 2000 books to give to
children in need. ​
end date to the collection, but
when we did put a deadline on it
the collection quadrupled,” she
said.
They advertised through the
school and made it a competition
between classes, they
even had a ‘book-o-meter’ and
regular emails to keep them
informed of who was leading.
The books will be donated to
Christchurch East School.
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