Library News
Beautiful student artwork in the College Library: Year 9 Personal Best project
Year 9 students Kate Parker and Tess Harvey, from Mr Cantwell’s Religious Education class, have finished some beautiful artwork in the College Library. Kate and Tess created the design and finished the artwork in the Library’s Reading Space in the Library as their Year 9 Personal Best project. We love it!
Time to loan or return
It’s nearly the end of term and time to borrow reading for the summer holidays, and return those books to the College Library that are finished. Books loaned now will not be due until 3 February 2020.
Summer Reading Challenge
Watch out for details of our Summer Reading Challenge in the last newsletter for the year. A great way to have fun through the summer holidays!
Student Buy-in* is one of the many innovative programs at St. Joseph’s. This week Ms Saillard’s Year 7 Brigid and Ms Wright’s Yr 7 Delany Reading Room classes selected the following from the Lamont bookseller collection:
Jack Treverna Otherlife Simon, Kat, Busara, and Elvis are on the run with the tech super-villains at the Company hot on their heels. The new VR gaming experience the Company created, OtherEarth, is set to change how the world experiences video games.
Philippa Bush Weapon After escaping Lengard and finding sanctuary with the Remnants, Alyssa Scott is desperate to save those she left behind - and the rest of the world - from the power-hungry scientist, Kendall Vanik.
Connor Armstrong Wrecking Ball An unexpected inheritance gives the Heffley family a chance to make major improvements to their home. But they soon find that construction isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Kajini Karunanayake The Deathless Girls On the day she'll discover her fate, seventeen-year-old Lil and her twin sister Kizzy are captured by the cruel Boyar Valcar, taken far away from their beloved traveller community.
Sienna Phillips Me Time Self-care is tuning-in to your mind, body and spirit, and respecting what you find there. Filled with wisdom and activities to establish or extend your self-care.
Macy Irvine Girl, Boy, Sea A British boy narrowly survives the sinking of his yacht in a huge storm off the coast of Morocco. After days alone at sea Bill rescues a girl clinging for her life to a barrel…
Mia Fusti Saving Everest From the outside, Everest has it all, but there's only one girl who can see him for who he truly is...
Bronte Tabone The Caged Queen Once there were two sisters born with a bond so strong that it forged them together forever. One day a terrible accident took Essie's life and trapped her soul in this world. Dax - the heir to Firgaard's throne - was responsible for the accident.
*Student Buy-in is where each week four Reading Room students (Yrs 7-9) are selected by their Reading Room teacher to go on an excursion with a College Library staff member to Collins Booksellers, Echuca, to buy a book the student would like to read. Each student has a $20 voucher to make their purchase. On their return to school, students show their books to their class, saying what each book is about and why they picked it. The books are then catalogued as part of the Library collection and made available for loan, with a sticker on the front saying who the book was selected by. All the books selected by students are featured in a display in the College Library. Through this program students have increased choice and therefore commitment to what they read; ownership of book selection; reading is acknowledged as a prioritised, important use of time and resources; reading and books selection is seen as a peer activity; and our students are introduced to the experience of being in a bookshop and buying a book of their choice, sometimes for the first time.