Holiday Reading

School holidays are almost upon us (5 days to go), and I believe there is no better way to spend some of your holiday down time than by reading a great book!

Don’t forget that e-books and audiobooks are still able to be borrowed from the Diocese’s digital library, SORA. SORA has an amazing collection of e-books, audiobooks and magazines for students of all ages to access. They are great to download and listen to when travelling, too. For more information on how to access and browse the digital library, see the notice at the bottom of this page.

Also, I would like to recommend the Tamworth Town Library as a means of accessing suitable reading material and providing some wonderful holiday activities for the children these school holidays. Check out their website for more information:

https://cnl.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/MSGTRN/WPAC/HOME

Who knows, the book/books you read in the holidays might provide you with the inspiration for your book character dress up for our book character parade on Friday, August 25th!

Overdue Books

It’s that time of term again when we need to follow up on overdue library books! The school holidays provide the perfect opportunity to locate any overdue books and have them ready to return to school Week 1 of Term 3. Your support in this matter will be greatly appreciated!

Important Dates for Term 3

18th August Premier’s Reading Challenge closes
21st - 25th August Book Week 2023
21st - 25th August St Joseph’s Book Fair
25th August Book Week Character Parade

Premier's Reading Challenge (PRC) 2023

A gentle reminder that this year’s Premier’s Reading Challenge concludes mid-August. May I suggest that you make use of the school holidays to get your books completed and ensure your reading logs are up to date. So many of our students are well on their way to completing the Challenge and I strongly encourage them to persevere until they reach their target number of books!

If you decide to complete Mrs Holland's Holiday Reading Challenge, you will be add the books that you read to your PRC Reading Log as well.

Don’t forget that many of the Premier’s Reading Challenge books are on SORA. If you look in collections you will see collections devoted to each section of the challenge.

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.

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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

Student Support

Mrs Emily Sullivan