Library News
Welcome back for Term 3!
At Belmont High School Library we have a wide variety of books to read – fiction, non-fiction, graphic novels and comics. We also have a variety of magazines which can be borrowed, and games to play at recess & lunch such as chess, UNO, and Lego.
There are a range of eBooks and Audiobooks available on the Wheelers ePlatform, which can be accessed on student devices via the library catalogue or the LibGuides homepage. There is an app available to download to your phone or tablet/iPad so that you can read or listen to books wherever you are. Look for this symbol on the library catalogue or LibGuides homepage:
LibGuides is a website designed for Belmont High School – classroom and homework resources can be found for most subjects, as well as referencing help, scholarly articles, and many helpful links. A link can be found to LibGuides on SharePoint – look for this icon:
The library catalogue can be accessed via SharePoint – look for this link:
Students can search for, reserve, renew, review, and rate books.
Library hours are 8:15am – 4:30pm Monday to Thursday and 8:15am – 4pm on Friday.
In the final week of last term we held the Regular Readers’ Raffle draw. The raffle is held at the end of each term and students who are seen reading in the library outside class-time at least three times are given a ticket to go into the raffle. The first three winners drawn receive cafeteria vouchers and there are chocolates or lollies to be won.
There are many keen readers this year, so we had at least twenty-four students entered in the raffle. The prize winners were Rebecca Pitt (10E) who won $12-worth of caf vouchers, Parneet Kaur (7R) who won $6-worth of vouchers, and Violet Croucher (7M) who won a $3 voucher. There will be another raffle at the end of this term, so keep reading!
Book of the Week
As Long As The Lemon Trees Grow
by Zoulfa Katouh
Salama is hallucinating.
Surrounded by death and destruction every day it’s understandable that she’s not coping. There isn’t enough to eat, she’s in danger every time she steps outside, and no matter how hard she works at the hospital, people die. Salama once dreamed of romance and a brilliant career, but the civil war has taken away any hope of this.
A chance meeting changes everything, and she suddenly finds herself hatching a daring plan to escape Syria so that she can build the future she once dreamed of.
Set during the Syrian Civil War, As long as the lemon trees grow is a profound story of love, hope, and overcoming fear.
Susan Winfield