Welcome back everyone! I hope you’ve had an enjoyable holiday break. Hopefully, you had the opportunity to cosy up somewhere and lose yourself in the pages of a wonderful book.

Not only is Term 3 the busiest time of the year in the library, it is also the most exciting! Term 3 is all about the Children’s Book Council of Australia’s (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards, culminating with Book Week celebrations during Week 6 (August 19th to 25th). During Book Week we will once again be hosting our annual Scholastic Book Fair, as well as our Book Character Parade (Friday August 25th).

Children’s Book Week - August 19th to 25th

“Each year since 1945 the CBCA has brought children and books together across Australia through Children’s Book Week. During this time schools and public libraries spend one glorious week celebrating books and Australian children's authors and illustrators.”

This year the Children’s Book Week Celebrations will be held during August 19-25 (Week 6 of Term 3). The Book Week theme this year is ‘Read, Grow, Inspire’ and “the amazingly talented illustrator” of this year’s poster, Matt Ottley, has brought this theme “to life in the striking flying hero seahorse carrying young readers through an endless, boundary-less sunlight lit space where imagination has unlimited scope for growth and infinite possibility.”

Further information regarding the form Book Week celebrations will take here at St Joseph’s will be advised in Week 4’s newsletter.

Children’s Book Week also recognises the winners of the Children’s Book Council of the Year Awards. As stated previously, the CBCA Book of the Year is broken down into six categories: Older Readers, Younger Readers, Early Childhood, Picture Books, The Eve Pownall Award (for documenting factual content) and the CBCA Award for New Illustrator.

This week I would like to draw your attention to the shortlisted books for Younger Readers, Early Childhood and Picture Books.

Overdue Books

Premier's Reading Challenge (PRC) 2023

Congratulations to all the super readers who have already completed the PRC over the last couple of weeks. A reminder that the PRC will conclude on August 18th, 2023! Keep the reading momentum going; just 4 weeks to go, the end is in sight! Don’t forget to record the books you have read! If your child needs some extra books to get the reading challenge finished, please contact me and I will do my very best to help them.

Book Club

If you would like to purchase something from Issue 5 of Book Club, orders are now being accepted and are due by the 2nd of August, 2023.

Important Dates for Term 3

2nd August Book Club due
18th August Premier’s Reading Challenge closes
21st - 25th August Book Week 2023
21st - 25th August St Joseph’s Book Fair
25th August Book Week Character Parade

Library Borrowing

Library book borrowing continues to occur on Thursdays (Stage 3) and Fridays (Early Stage 1, Stage 1 and Stage 2) for all St Joseph’s School students. Please don’t forget to bring your library bag to ensure the safe transportation of borrowed books between home and school.

Reading at Home

The students at St Joseph’s are able to access ebooks, audiobooks and magazine through SORA, the Armidale Diocese digital library. SORA has an extensive collection of ebooks, audiobooks and magazines for students of all ages.

Instructions for logging onto SORA are as follows:

SORA

Getting started with Sora

Sora - get free ebooks and audiobooks from your school.

Step 1: Install the SORA app from Apple App Store or Google Play Store, or soraapp.com.

Step 2: When in SORA, click on I have a setup code, then sign in.

The “setup” code is cenetau

Sign into your School – Select ACEN from the dropdown box.

Step 3: Browse the explore tab and borrow a book. Your book will open so you can start reading right away.

Step 4: Close the book and go to the shelf to see all your books. From there, you can:

Select Open book or Open audiobook to read or listen to the book.
Select Options to renew or return the book and more.

© 2020 OverDrive, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

You will need to use your school username and password to access this.

WORLD BOOK ONLINE

St Joseph’s also has a subscription to World Book Online! This means that our students have access to this wonderful resource free of charge should they wish to access it from home. World Book Online may be accessed via the Oliver home page or by visiting the World Book website www.worldbookonline.com

World Book Online is a safe, trusted, 21st-century learning environment for students.

The World Book products our school has access to include:

Kids: simple navigation, easy to read articles, translations and text to speech (with 10 voices). It includes educational games, activities, science experiments, a dictionary, an atlas, interactive maps, map outlines and a tool for comparing places or animals.

Student: expansive reference database and multimedia library. It includes games, behind the headlines, citation builder and research tools.

Timelines: over 650 timelines including Gold Rushes in Australia, Australian Prime Ministers, Cricket World Cup, Star Wars and Harry Potter. Edit or create your own timelines.

Our User ID: joseph2340

Password: joseph2340

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Miss Kim Taggart