Our Library at St Luke’s Early Learning Community
At St Luke’s Early Learning Community in Deakin, our library is a place where children are bathed in literacy. Every visit invites children into a world rich with language and imagination. We encourage families to borrow books regularly. Bring your library bag and take a story home.
Across early childhood education, there is powerful evidence that reading frequently, even in short bursts, has an enormous impact on children’s development. According to 1000 Books Before Kindergarten initiative, reading just one book a day means families will enjoy over 1,000 books in less than three years, and every repeated reading still counts towards that total. The program highlights that children regularly read to in their early years develop stronger vocabularies, better language skills, and greater school readiness.
This is where St Luke’s plays an important role. By offering an accessible, welcoming library space, we help make this goal feel both achievable and enjoyable for families. Each borrowed book contributes to a child’s growing language bank, expanding the words they hear, the ideas they imagine, and the stories they carry with them. When families borrow regularly, they are building steady, meaningful literacy habits that last far beyond the early years.
Our library gives families a simple way to nurture early literacy, supports the evidence behind the 1000 Books Before Kindergarten initiative, and invites children to see themselves as readers long before they can read independently.
At St Luke’s, we believe literacy is something to be lived, shared, and loved. And with every story borrowed, our children take one more step on a lifelong reading journey.
