Library

Mrs Holley

Children's Book Week 2023

Book Fair Thank You

I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank all the families who so generously supported our annual Book Fair. Your generous support allows our school to receive credit points with Scholastic, which we are then able to convert into resources for our school.

It was truly wonderful to see so many excited children buying their favourite book! What a way to celebrate Book Week and reading!

Book Character Parade Thank You!

A huge “thank you” also to all the students, staff and their families and friends who contributed in any way to the fabulous costumes worn at our Book Character Parade - your support of this Book Week activity was absolutely amazing! A special “thank you” to the many parents, grandparents and family friends who came along to lend their support and then join the children for morning tea. The weather was wonderful, the costumes were fabulous and we were able to share morning tea with family and friends - a very fitting way to conclude Book Week. If you haven’t already done so, check out the photos on our school Facebook page or in the photo gallery.

Premier’s Reading Challenge (PRC) 2023

The Premier’s Reading Challenge for 2023 has now closed and student reading logs have been validated. Huge congratulations to all those students who have completed the challenge this year, what an amazing effort!

Don’t forget that the books you are reading now can count towards next year’s Premier’s Reading Challenge.

Library Borrowing

Don’t forget that Thursday and Friday are library borrowing days at St. Joseph’s School! So, grab your library bag and come to the library and borrow a book, or two or three!

Overdue Books

As the end of term approaches, I encourage you to ensure that your child/children have no overdue books hiding around the house – they are needed back in the library, please. Thank you in advance for your support with this!

Reading at Home

The students at St Joseph’s are able to access ebooks, audiobooks and magazine through SORA, the Armidale Diocese digital library. SORA has an extensive collection of ebooks, audiobooks and magazines for students of all ages.

Instructions for logging onto SORA are as follows:

SORA

Getting started with Sora

Sora - get free ebooks and audiobooks from your school.

Step 1: Install the SORA app from Apple App Store or Google Play Store, or soraapp.com.

Step 2: When in SORA, click on I have a setup code, then sign in.

The “setup” code is cenetau

Sign into your School – Select ACEN from the dropdown box.

Step 3: Browse the explore tab and borrow a book. Your book will open so you can start reading right away.

Step 4: Close the book and go to the shelf to see all your books. From there, you can:

Select Open book or Open audiobook to read or listen to the book.
Select Options to renew or return the book and more.

You will need to use your school username and password to access this.

WORLD BOOK ONLINE

St Joseph’s also has a subscription to World Book Online! This means that our students have access to this wonderful resource free of charge should they wish to access it from home. World Book Online may be accessed via the Oliver home page or by visiting the World Book website www.worldbookonline.com

World Book Online is a safe, trusted, 21st-century learning environment for students.

The World Book products our school has access to include:

Kids: simple navigation, easy to read articles, translations and text to speech (with 10 voices). It includes educational games, activities, science experiments, a dictionary, an atlas, interactive maps, map outlines and a tool for comparing places or animals.

Student: expansive reference database and multimedia library. It includes games, behind the headlines, citation builder and research tools.

Timelines: over 650 timelines including Gold Rushes in Australia, Australian Prime Ministers, Cricket World Cup, Star Wars and Harry Potter. Edit or create your own timelines.

Our User ID: joseph2340

Password: joseph2340