Library

Over halfway through the term and it’s all very exciting!

Scholastic Book Club: 

Issue #4 is due back no later than the end of the day on Thursday the 4th of June since we have the student-free day that Friday. This will include online orders. 

To order from Book Club, you can either lodge the order online via LOOP (instructions are on the back of the catalogue) or you can hand your filled out form and pay for it at the front office. 

I only have a certain number of times that I can get deliveries with free shipping, so at the very latest your child’s order should arrive 2 weeks after the closing date. 

If you need a spare, you can ask for one at the front office but please be aware that there is a limited supply of them. 

National Simultaneous Storytime: 

I hope you all enjoyed reading “Luna Roo the Kangaroo Baller” last Wednesday with the rest of Australia. The messages in this book about resilience and confidence in the face of doubts are life lessons that are beneficial to everyone. 

The additional layer to this story about encouraging girls to be involved in sports is also important when there are places in the world where girls and women cannot play sports or it is strictly controlled. 

But the lasting message of being just like Luna-Roo is my favourite - Everyone can do anything they set their mind to even if people may not believe in you at first. 

What’s new in the library:

Two books that I want to highlight that are now in our collection are “My Dreamtime Match” by Jacinta Daniher and Taylor Hampton and illustrated by Janelle Burger, and “Narm-Jaap: A Flinders Street Station History” by Melissa-Jane Fogarty and Dylan Finney. 

“My Dreamtime Match” is a bright and colourful book about an energetic Yorta Yorta kid called Jahleel playing at his local football club during the famous Indigenous Round, also known as the Sir Doug Nicholls Round. As the Sir Doug Nicholls Round was not too long ago and National Reconciliation Week started yesterday, I made sure to get this book onto the shelves as soon as possible and students can borrow them! Taylor Hampton is a proud Ngiyampaa/Wiradjuri man who established Birrang Cultural Connections in 2019 with Jacinta Daniher. Janelle Burger has Noongar and Italian heritage and is influenced heavily by the brighter things in life. The acknowledgements in this book are dedicated to Aunty Neva Takele for her guernsey design and her grandsons Jahleel and Joel, the Leitchville Gunbower Football Netball Club and Beechworth Football and Netball Club for the representation of their game and their guernsey’s, and famous AFL players Adam Goodes and Michael O’Loughlin for the permission to use their likeness as the authors and illustrator are all inspired by their legacies. There’s a real connection to community and pride in identity shown through this book. 

A little bit closer to home is “Narm-Jaap: A Flinders Street Station History”. This book covers the long history of the site where Flinders Street Station now is from well and truly before colonisation to current day and the connection the site had and still has to Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung people. This book is beautifully illustrated with warmth and contains so many facts about why this site in particular and Narm-Jaap were and still are so important to both the local Indigenous cultures, colonisers and their descendents. Melissa-Jane Fogarty is of Mununjali descent and lives on Darkinjung land in New South Wales. She has written and illustrated other books about Indigenous history, culture, and reclamation in Australia such as “Tubowgule: A Sydney Opera House History” and “One Word”. Dylan Finney is a descendant of the Yanula and Mara clans and also has English and Irish heritage. All of the books he has worked on show a love for colour, light and an inspiration in people and culture. The dedications in this book include Charley, Aunty Julieanne and Aunty Gail from the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation for their insight for and feedback on the book, and the Traditional Owners of the land that our school is on and the recognised impact that those people have on this beautiful Country.  

Class Dojo Calendars:

As you all know I have set calendar notifications for class library days but I haven’t noticed any changes to student returns. If you get a notification about your child’s library day, please help your child find their book/s and put it in their bag so it comes to school.

The book/s you will be looking for will have 2 or more of the same stickers or labels in the picture. Every book has an ISBN barcode but only ones from our school library have one that says “Melton West P.S.”. 

If it has a cross over the barcode, this is no longer a library book. 

Next week (Week 8) will be the last borrowing week for all students so the class library sessions will be for returns only as of Week 9.

Please reach out to me via Class Dojo (Miss Reed) if you have any questions or concerns. 

Bye for now, 

Miss Tye