LRC News

Extended borrowing for all students

We have extended all current book loans, so if you have borrowed a library book this year, it is not due back until Term 3.

Your Online Library

Although our doors are currently closed to students, you can still use many of our resources.

Ebooks: Our ebook library is always open and we are adding new items all the time. Visit https://dandenong.wheelers.co/browse?format=epub to start browsing for an ebook, or check out one of the recommended ebooks below.

Audiobooks: Would you like to sit back and let someone else read a book to you? Try an audiobook! We have a large selection available here: https://dandenong.wheelers.co/browse?format=mp3

ClickView: Teachers and students have access to a huge range of educational videos through ClickView.

Online Catalogue: Visit our online catalogue for ebooks recommendations, activities, links and fun things to do at home. Click here to check it out: https://www.accessitsoftware.com.au/DND00/#!dashboard

Recommended ebooks

We have recently added all available ebooks on the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year shortlist. These are highly recommended books chosen by judges across the country who have read through hundreds of books to select the best.

Shortlisted books for older readers

Four dead queens // Ghost bird // How it feels to float // This is how we change the ending // When the ground is hard

Shortlisted books for younger readers

The dog runner // The little wave // The thing about Oliver

Premiers' Reading Challenge

The Premiers’ Reading Challenge is open once again! Every year, we challenge Dandenong High School students in Year 7 to 9 to read fifteen books by the 4th of September. Our students have just started logging in and adding their books and we already have some impressive statistics.

Students who have finished the Challenge: 4 (already!)

Books read: 1,260

Book reviews published: 19

Students will receive their login details from their English teacher and they can add all the books they have read since Summer, as well as the ones they're reading now.

Every year, we award a special trophy to the house with the most students who complete the Premiers’ Reading Challenge. Fern house has won for the last few years – is it another house’s turn in 2020?

Camp NaNoWriMo

Camp NaNoWriMo is an event where writers all around the world challenge themselves to write a whole book in one month. This April, six of us took up the Camp NaNoWriMo challenge, writing by ourselves in our own houses instead of gathering in the LRC every lunchtime to cheer each other on. It was tough, but most of us did it!

Between us, we wrote 26,415 words in April.

Well done to Deeksha A, Victoria C, Jasmine G, Shradha V (and Ms Gatward) for completing your challenges.

Every winning writer received a parcel of goodies in the mail, including their certificate, badges, stickers, and other writing essentials. We couldn’t take a big group photo of our winning writers, so they are sending their individual photos to us instead.

Well done, everyone!

Short Story Competition

Entries are now open for the LRC’s Short Story competition. You can write a story in any genre and any style and go in the running to win many great prizes. The major prize for each category is an online masterclass with Australian author, Lili Wilkinson.

Categories

Years 7-9 – write a story up to 1,500 words

Years 10-12 – write a story up to 2,500 words

Closing Date

Friday 5th June

Teen Library Advisors go online

Term 2 is usually a busy month, with students doing their best to help out in the LRC in order to be selected as a Teen Library Advisor. With the library closed, you might think it’s impossible for our students to help out, but that’s not the case. We’re even holding our meetings, although they’re via a video in your inbox instead of in the LRC.

Instead of shelving or helping at the loans desk, our TLAs are helping the library by:

• Entering competitions run by the LRC
• Completing the Premiers’ Reading Challenge
• Writing reviews of books for the Premiers’ Reading Challenge
• Submitting articles to the school newsletter (you may have read some already)
• Creating video reviews of ebooks

We miss having our TLAs around the library and we are looking forward to the time when they can be back with us again, helping make the library a friendly and vibrant place.