Library News

“Draw It Competition” Winner Kate Moloney

Blacktown City Libraries held a “Draw It” competition over the summer holidays, where young people had the opportunity to submit a piece of artwork that was based on a theme, cover or character from a book that they love. 11 students from Blacktown high schools participated in this competition. Blacktown City Libraries posted the artworks on their Facebook account and asked the community to “like” the artwork that they think should win.

Kate Molony (Year 9) won the 1st prize in the social media votes with her drawing inspired by “Coraline”, a novella by Neil Gaiman. Kate won a Gourmet High Tea Voucher to the Cucina Locale Revolving Restaurant Blacktown valued at $118. Congratulations Kate on an amazing job. We are all proud of your at Evans High School!

EHS Chess Club 2020

Students at our school are very involved in chess. Many look forward to coming to the library at recess and lunch every day to catch up with their friends and play a chess game.

Do you enjoy playing Chess? Would you like to learn how to play Chess?

Would you like to play other high school students with a similar interest?

Please come to the Library to sign up for the Chess Club - Beginner and advanced players welcome!

Mr Sabir, our Chess Coach, has already started running the Chess Club at our Library every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at Lunchtime. Students were enjoying learning new chess skills and playing against one another.

NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge (PRC) 2020

Students have been learning about how to sign up, add books and keep their Student Reading Records updated on the PRC website.

Information about the PRC 2020:

CHALLENGE OPENS: Monday 2nd March, 2020
CHALLENGE CLOSES: Friday 28th August, 2020
Open to all students in Years 7, 8 and 9
Students must read a minimum of 20 books (15 must be from the PRC list and maximum 5 books of personal choice)
EHS Library has a wide variety of PRC books
Books can be identified by the PRC stickers placed on the right hand corner of the book cover.
Students are encouraged to check out the Author and Illustrator Showcases on the Arts Unit website to catch up with the some of the best children's and YA authors in Australia from overseas too!
Please follow this Link: https://www.artsunit.nsw.edu.au/reading-challenge

For more information, please visit the PRC website (students can access it through Student Portal) OR email Ms Chalhoub in the library for assistance to sign up. Thank you and well done to all the students who signed up and Happy Reading always!!

Audible Audiobooks

Audible (one of the world’s largest producer of audiobooks) have released stories to listen to for free. There are 40 audiobooks available to listen to in the Tween Collection, 67 in the Teens collection and 27 in the literary classics. In addition, you can also listen to titles across six different languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Japanese).

Please follow the following simple steps to access streaming a great collection of stories.

You don't need a login.
Go to https://stories.audible.com/start-listen
Click on 'Start Listening' in the orange box
Choose a book to read from a category you like.
Click on the book cover OR the title of the book.
Click on the arrow to view books in the whole collection.
You can adjust the speed of the book being read to you and forward or rewind the chapters.

make sure you are using the latest version of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge browsers.

All stories are free to stream on any desktop, laptop, phone or tablet.

Enjoy listening to Audible amazing stories!

Library Staff

Pauline Chalhoub (Teacher Librarian)

Sene Scalan Sufia (Library Assistant)

Annette Tomlinson (Library Assistant)