Library News
Children’s Book Council of Australia Book Week
As part of the CBCA Book Week, students from K-10 will dress up as their favourite BOOK character followed by our usual Story Sharing rotations on Friday 25th August. Parents are very welcome to attend the Book Week Parade from 9.15-10am. With the holidays coming up it is a great opportunity for students to start finding and creating the costumes!
During Book Week we will also be holding our annual Scholastic Book Fair. During the week there will be a range of books suitable for K-10 students, available for purchase from the Learning Centre. Further information to follow.
The Premier’s Reading Challenge finishes on Friday 23th August (Week 6, Term 3). These holidays are a great time for students to catch up on their reading and fill out their Reading Log. If your child has forgotten their password and username please don’t hesitate to send me an email or have your child come and see me.
St Philomena’s subscribes to Worldbook Online which is the online version of the well known Worldbook Encyclopaedia series. The subscription is open to all students.
Our World Book subscription allows us to give you and your family access to this valuable reference source at your home computers 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. We hope that your whole family will use the World Book sites often to help with homework, special projects, at-home learning and information seeking.
To access the World Book Web, follow these simple steps:
Go to www.worldbookonline.com
Enter Username stpcs2400
Enter Password stpcs2400
Save your user name and password for faster login – simply tick the box labelled “Remember my ID and password”. The next time you visit World Book the login prompt will already contain your username and password.
Once you arrive at the World Book home page, you should bookmark the page or add to favourites for easy access to World Book in the future.
We have access to 3 levels of articles:
World Book Kids—is based on World Book’s award winning Discovery Encyclopedia and is designed to give younger students, ESL students and reluctant readers a rewarding online learning experience. The site illustrations, diagrams and maps enrich more than 2,000 articles selected for appeal and relevance.
World Book Student—forms the foundation of an expansive reference database that includes over 40,000 encyclopedia and reference articles, thousands of links to outside web sites selected by World Book editors and contributors. It also includes an extensive Dictionary and Atlas plus audios, visuals and animations.
World Book Advanced—tailored for the needs of older students, it includes encyclopedic content, integrates primary and secondary source databases plus more than 5,500 e-books in a single search, over 700 e-books can be downloaded to e-readers and iPads, and a wealth of research tools that allow students to customise and save their work.
**Please remember that login and password information is for students and their families only, and extending this information to people who are not part of our school community could result in loss of at-home access for our students.**