Wasn’t it wonderful to have an extra day added to our weekend? Thank you King Charles! I hope you were all able to take advantage of the extra day by relaxing with a good book or perhaps listening to an audiobook whilst tending to other household chores.

Important Dates for Term 3

PRC Concludes - Aug 18, 2023 (Term 3)

Book Week 2023 - August 21 - 25 (Term 3)

Book Fair 2023 - August 21 - 25 (Term 3 - to coincide with Book Week)

2023 Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Awards

Each year, across Australia, the CBCA brings children and books together celebrating Children’s Book Week. Throughout the year, the CBCA works in partnership with authors, illustrators, publishers, booksellers and other organisations in the children’s book world to bring words, images and stories into the hearts and minds of children and adults.

Every year since 1987, the CBCA has chosen a Book Week theme to inspire teachers, librarians and children in their participation in this wonderful event. Read, Grow, Inspire is the theme for 2023, and the featured artist is, previous Picture Book of the Year illustrator, Australian illustrator Matt Ottley.

To view the Children’s Book Week 2023 theme announcement, featuring this year’s artist, Matt Ottley click on the link here

NSW Premier's Reading Challenge 2023

A reminder that the Premier’s Reading Challenge continues, and does not conclude until August 18th 2023; so there is still plenty of time to join in the fun of the Premier’s Reading Challenge and read, read, read. PRC books can be found in the library or on SORA. If you would like to peruse the PRC website, you may do so by following the link https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/home.html

Some Quick Reminders

Library Borrowing/Library Bags - borrowing for all students continues to occur on Thursdays and Fridays. Don’t forget that Library bags are a must to ensure the safe transportation of books to and from school.

Overdue Books – there has been a steady stream of overdue library books being returned to school, thank you to those families who have located them and sent them in to school, however, there are still many overdue books outstanding. Please continue to keep looking for any overdue library books you know you have at home

Lunch Time in the Library - the library will be open for students to enjoy on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays during the second break. So if you would like to find a quiet corner to read a book, solve a jigsaw, draw a picture or colour one, play a board game or fold some origami come on in! Hope to see you there!

Reading at Home

The students at St Joseph’s are able to access ebooks and audiobooks 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.

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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

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