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Email Errors
We are currently having trouble with our automated overdue email system. Some families may have been getting multiple emails for the same book. Rest assured we are in the process of fixing this error. We have currently turned the reminder system off until the issue is resolved.
Scholastic Book Club and Book Fair
We are very appreciative of the support our community has given us over the week whilst we held our Scholastics Book Fair for 2022.
Thank you to members of our community from our senior Secondary & Primary students, family members and staff members for helping take the stress off during some of our busiest times.
A big thank you to families as your support by making purchases both large and small contributed towards our total sales of $5,806.30. Working with Scholastic we are provided with the opportunity to earn commission. The commission scale works as follows: 35% if we take directly from the Book Fair, 30% if we use it as reward or 25% if we request cash. Once we closed the Book Fair we took over $1,300 worth of products from the Book Fair tables at 35%. The remainder of our commission has been added to our rewards points to use at a later date.
Due to the popularity of many items on the tables at the Book Fair, a number of products needed to be ordered. We hope to have them available early next week.
Book Week
As part of our Book Week celebrations we invite all students and families to come to
school dressed up as their favourite book character on Thursday 25 August.
At 9:10am we will run the Primary Character Parade on the primary basketball courts.
The Secondary Character Parade will be presented at lunchtime in the Resource Centre.
The Character Parade involves students dressing as their favourite book character or as
something that relates to the theme of the year - 'Dreaming with Eyes Open'.
For costume ideas, check out the links below:
Children's Books Daily Blogs
2022: For kids: https://childrensbooksdaily.com/kids-costumes-for-book-week/
For adults https://childrensbooksdaily.com/book-week-costumes-for-adults/
2021:https://childrensbooksdaily.com/book-week-costumes-for-educators/
2014: https://childrensbooksdaily.com/book-week-2014-parade-costumes/
Your Kids Next Read podcast
2022: Episode 61: Books About Sport - Children's Books Daily... (childrensbooksdaily.com)
2021: https://open.spotify.com/episode/54RuJBPTSocTUm8mgGZE1K?si=VM-XjpeLTL2jn
We can't wait to see everyone’s creative costumes!
Premier's Reading Challenge
The Premiers Reading Challenge will close on August 19. I hope everyone is reading and entering their books onto the site. Once you have entered the number of books as listed below let me know at library@moamagrammar.nsw.edu.au so that I am able to verify your child’s list on the site.
| Year Level | Number of books | Minimum # Books from PRC list | # of Books of choice (not from PRC list) | Lists students can read from |
| K-2 | 30 | 25 | 5 | K-2, 3-4, 5-6 |
| 3-4 | 20 | 15 | 5 | 3-4, 5-6, 7-9 |
| 5-6 | 20 | 15 | 5 | 5-6, 7-9 |
| 7-9 | 20 | 15 | 5 | 5-6, 7-9, 9plus |
| 3-9 (refer to rule 7b) | 20 | 15 | 5 | All booklists |
If you are still looking for books to read, check out the appropriate year levels on the PRC book lists to assist in your choice: https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/booklist/home.html
Please see the website for more details: https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/home.html
Keep reading everyone!
Ms Height, Mrs Price and Mrs Jepson
Resource Centre Team
Important details
Opening Hours:
Monday-Thursday 8.30am to 4.30pm
Friday 8.30am to 4.00pm
Borrowing and Returns
Students may borrow and return books before school, recess, lunch time and after school. Primary School students also have the chance to borrow books during their fortnightly Library lessons.
Renewals
Students are able to re-borrow books for an additional two weeks by speaking to staff at the Library Circulation Desk. If further borrowing is requested after this, students are required to bring their book with them to allow the staff to sight the book. In addition, students can renew their book/s by emailing the Library.
Requests
If your child would like to borrow a specific book and the title is not included in our current catalogue, we will add this to our purchase wish-list.
Overdue notices
If you receive an overdue notice, then the book/s are either overdue, or there is a chance that the books may been processed through our system after the email was sent, so we encourage all parents to follow up any issues by emailing the Resource Centre at library@moamagrammar.nsw.edu.au
If you have any other enquiries, issues or concerns please do not hesitate to contact us via phone by ringing the main office or via email address library@moamagrammar.nsw.edu.au