LIBRARY NEWS

Opening hours 

Senior Library:

Monday to Friday: (for students in Years 5-12 only) 8.30pm to 4pm

Junior Library: 

Students may borrow books after school if they bring a book bag and return the books they have finished reading. Please see staff in the Senior Library for access and loans.

    Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge Update 

Year 7 and 8 students have been working towards meeting their challenge of 15 books in the Premiers’ reading challenge. Many have been logging the titles read on the website. Some students have made an excellent effort. So far, the highest number of books recorded in Year 7 is 47 and in Year 8 is 108. Well done!

Students: If you have not yet started to record the books you have read, please start to do so.

• You will need to go to https://vprc.eduweb.vic.gov.au/home and sign in on the VPRC login tab (If you have forgotten your log in details, please contact the library staff or your English teacher)
• Search for the titles you have read and click add book to add it to your list.
• Your English teacher will verify the titles.

If you cannot find the title of a book you have read, please email the library on library@standrews.vic.edu.au giving details of the title and author and the library staff will add your book to your dashboard for you. We will let you know once this is done.

Looking for Challenge titles?

The VPRC books in the library have a green stripe on the spine label. When you look up a title on the library catalogue, any VPRC titles will indicated with “78VPRC”. Check the Library homepage on the HUB for any new books that are also on the VPRC Challenge list.

You may also like to watch an introduction by this year’s VPRC illustrator:

Keep reading!!

Reminder!

There is still time to enter the Insight Publications Creative writing competition, which closes on the 6th August, 2021. 

This competition is for students in Years 7-12.

Dates to Note

This year marks:

• 60 years since the death of the 1954 Nobel Prize winning author Ernest Hemingway. He is considered to be one of America’s finest writers. To find out more about him, Click Here  (2nd July, 1961)
• 150 years since the birth of the influential French writer Marcel Proust. Marcel Proust | Biography, Books, & Facts | Britannica (10th July, 1871)
• 50 years since the Australian Aboriginal flag was first flown. Indigenous Australian Flags | NAIDOC  (12th July, 1971)
• 155 years since the birth of Beatrix Potter, best known for her book-Peter Rabbit. Beatrix Potter | British author | Britannica  (28th July, 1866)

History Happenings - Cabinet Display for Term 2

This month’s theme was money and there were two Chinese coins featured in the cabinet. Students were invited to correctly answer the quiz question - Name the two Chinese emperors on the coins and their dates.

 Also on display has been an American $50 Confederacy note. The Confederate States dollar was first issued just before the outbreak of the American Civil War by the newly formed Confederacy. It was not backed by hard assets, but simply by a promise to pay the bearer after the war, on the prospect of Southern victory and independence. As the Civil War progressed and victory for the South seemed less and less likely, its value declined. After the Confederacy's defeat, its money had no value, and both individuals and banks lost large sums. In the image above, there are two “Invasion” notes, so called as this was the money used in Japan after World War 2 ended.

Amongst the collection in the cabinet has been a “Widow’s Mite”. This small bronze coin was mentioned in the story of the poor widow in Mark 12

41 Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. 42 But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents.

43 Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. 44 They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.”

Lynne Marks, Anita Little, Wai Peng Heath

Library Staff