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SPONSORING
A LOVE OF READING
Helping hand : Sports personality Jude Ellis, centre
left, and Queen Margaret College pupil Victoria Taylor, centre right,
with St Michael's School year two and three pupils showing off their new
books.
A group of year nine pupils from Queen Margaret College
is helping to inspire a love of reading in some Lower Hutt Children. The
girls are sponsors for the Books in Homes programme at St Michael's School
in Taita. Last week the girls presented $1500 worth of books to the school.
Each of the school's 110 pupils got to take home two books to keep. The
Queen Margaret pupils will spend the rest of the year raising the $1500
to pay for the books through school fairs, selling lollies, staging musicals
and sausage sizzles. The school's year 9 pupils have been supporting the
programme for several years. Other year groups raise money for other causes,
including Wellington Hospital's children's ward and Women's Refuge. Teacher
Mary Wood said it helped the girls become more aware of others in the
community. Year nine pupil Chloe Deruyter said it gave her a buzz to see
the children so excited to receive their books. "It makes you want
to do more to help in society" she said. Victoria Taylor, 13, said
seeing the children so happy made her enthusiastic about the fundraising
that lay ahead. "I'm really glad to help them ... to do something
for the community. The students also said the fundraising was a valuable
lesson in marketing and business skills. St Michael's principal Linda
Birch said other schools had corporate sponsors to fund Books in Homes.
She was impressed by the Queen Margaret girls' effort, as they had to
work hard for the money. New Zealand representative rower and rugby player
Jude Ellis presented the books as a Books in Homes 'hero'. She spoke to
the children about her favourite childhood books and taking part in the
Trans-Atlantic rowing race.
The Dominion Post Tuesday April 8 2003
St Michael's Catholic Primary School
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