2021 Annual Book Drive- donations wanted!
The LAN Book Drive launched in 2018 as an initiative driven by Year 12 graduate Kayla. Her passion for reading and love of books inspired her to collect donations from our students, staff and families to give to children in our local community who may not have access to reading books at home. In the first year, we packaged up seven baskets and delivered them to our closest primary schools, who were incredibly grateful and made use of them as class book boxes, as donations to families or as valued additions to their library collections.
Kayla delivering one of our first book baskets in 2018
In 2019 we were thrilled to collect enough books to fill 22 baskets and 40 baskets in 2020, which made their way to even more of our local primary schools. We were overwhelmed by the generosity of our community and are hopeful that we will be able to collect more books with the help of our 2021 Year 7 cohort too.
Your daughter may have even read one of these books while she was at primary school.
While you are at home, start a collection of books which you think students up to the age of 12 would like. Books will be collected next term and all donations will be gratefully received. Next term we will organise collection points and if you have lots of books that are difficult for your daughter to carry, we can arrange a convenient drop-off or pick up time.
Sarah Hilder - English Teacher
