Book Fair

Our book fair must end next Monday September 5th, that day will be the last opportunity for families to have a browse with their child and purchase books in person. We will be open from 3.30 pm to 4.15 pm.

All profits will be reinvested in new books for our soon-to-be refurbished library.

Thank you to Mélanie and Léa for attending the book fair every afternoon, you two are a dream team!

Free access to our E-Libraries

Don't forget to make use of our E-book Library. Everyone should have their login code and passwords.

24/7 Access to the digital Library is at your children’s fingertips.

Login Protocols.

Your child’s first name (full stop) last name
Password is your child’s student ID, which is located on the dashboard of Compass.

Example

John.SMITH
SMI0004

These details should be recorded in the front of the student diary.

E-Book Library is found under the Learning at CJC tab on the school website. Go to ‘’Learning at CJC” and scroll down to

‘LEARNING RESOURCES - FREE E-LIBRARIES / OUTILS D'APPRENTISSAGE - BIBLIOTHÈQUES GRATUITES EN LIGNE’

then click the ‘E-Book Library’ picture. CJC Website - https://www.caulfieldjc.org.au/
Or, go direct to the E-Book Library by following this link. https://caulfieldjc.eplatform.co/.
Click on ‘sign in’ (top right corner).
Enter your child’s individual username and password.
Start browsing and start reading. (Your child can borrow up to two books for two weeks).

If you can’t log on – please contact the school at Caulfield.jr.co@education.vic.gov.au

French E-library at Alliance Française.

Parents who are members of the Alliance Francaise, you have access to the Culturetheque library with over 220,000 books available for students to borrow. https://www.culturetheque.com/AUS/accueil-portal.aspx

The link is also on our website and is found under the Learning at CJC tab on the school website. Go to ‘’Learning at CJC” and scroll down to

‘LEARNING RESOURCES - FREE E-LIBRARIES / OUTILS D'APPRENTISSAGE - BIBLIOTHÈQUES GRATUITES EN LIGNE’

Click the ‘CULTURETHEQUE’ picture.

Special thanks!

Special thanks to Melanie, Lea, Diana, Trudy and Danielle for ensuring that our physical and digital library spaces are being maintained and a love of reading is being promoted!

I hope everyone has had the chance to see the ‘BOOKFLIX’ display that Mel and Lea have put together for our students – it has a 5-star review 😉

3 quick library facts:

One of the most overdue library books in the world was returned after 122 years.
The research shows clear links from school libraries and library staff to improvements in student’s reading and academic success (https://www.softlinkint.com/resources/ - The research)
The more popular genres in prison libraries are paranormal romance, young adult titles, and the Left Behind series.

Babel Books

Babel Books promotes a circular economy as the books we sell have been generously donated by individuals and organisations. If you would like to part with some of your book collections, we would love to hear from you: get in touch with us now!

The books we receive are carefully reviewed - and quarantined for 14 days currently - so that you can select the condition you like, if we have it in stock. Our book condition guide details the various condition categories.

BabelBooks provides collections in French and in English - and a budding Spanish range.

We believe that reading a book should not cost the earth. Try buying pre-loved books and watch your budget stretch a little further! And when you choose us, you also:

reduce your carbon footprint as books are sourced and shipped from our beautiful continent,
support a significant literacy organisation in Australia: we donate 10% of our sales to Magabala Books, Australia's leading Indigenous publisher. This is our contribution to help preserve our unique and invaluable heritage, via the publication of bilingual books or books in First Nations' languages.
support 123Read2Me, a charity to whom we give children’s books we cannot sell via BabelBooks. 123Read2Me provides free books to disadvantaged kids, primarily in Victoria but also in NSW and Queensland.

We look closely at our own carbon footprint and have chosen to partner with Sendle, Australia's first 100% carbon neutral shipping service. We use compostable and recyclable packaging, so make sure you discard our packaging in the appropriate bin (Sendle's satchels are 100% compostable - our worms love them!).

www.babelbooks.com.au

The Australian online bookstore for pre-loved books

Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge ends today!

The Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge is open, and Caulfield Junior College is excited to be participating. The PRC application offers a range of exciting features including:

access to a library catalogue (including book images and blurbs)
a modern user-friendly interface
rewarding students with badges as challenge milestones are achieved
the option for students to mark books as a favourite, give them a star rating or complete a book review

The Challenge is open to all Victorian children from birth to Year 10 in recognition of the importance of reading for literacy development. It is not a competition; but a personal challenge for children to read a set number of books by 2 September 2022.

Children from Prep to Year 2 are encouraged to read or ‘experience’ 30 books with their parents and teachers. Children from Year 3 to Year 10 are challenged to read 15 books.

All children who meet the Challenge will receive a certificate of achievement signed by the Victorian Premier and former Premiers.

To read the Premier’s letter to parents, view the booklists and for more information about the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge, visit: https://www.vic.gov.au/premiers-reading-challenge

Further information about how to use the Challenge application is available at:

School students and parents

Your Child’s Login and Password have been sent home in their diary

To log in go to:

Register and log in

Kind regards,

-Mrs Wade

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