COMMUNITY NEWS - Lions and bears

Maleny Primary School, under the guidance of its Principal, John Byrne has enthusiastically embraced the Read Bear program offered by the Lions Club of Maleny.  

An exciting morning meeting was recently held at the Maleny Primary School with Prep and Year 1 students and representatives of the Lions Club of Maleny when each child received their own hand knitted Read Bear.

The Read Bears program is a simple, yet effective program aimed at Prep and Year 1 students.  Students were given a hand-knitted donated Read Bear and attached to each bear was a name tag.  The students had fun naming their individual bear and will take the bear home and read to them at night. This provides the children with more encouragement to read books by having a “friend” to read to.  

A dedicated team of Lions volunteers hand knitted over 70 Read Bears which were given to the Prep and Year 1 students at Maleny Primary School. Some of the students had prepared wonderful pictures of Bears with thank you messages. 

Paper flowers were also made by the students and presented to the Lions representatives on the day (pictured).  These drawings, messages and flowers will be cherished by the Lions volunteers.  

It is wonderful for the school to be part of this Lions program and to see how excited the students were to receive their unique Read Bears. Lions Maleny is proud that John Byrne and his team adopted the Read Bear program, so they are able to help our children in a small way and support the amazing work our teachers do every day to grow our beautiful young people into caring and educated members of our community.