Library News

Welcome back!

Welcome back to our library for 2024. Hopefully, you all had a wonderful holiday and got to read lots of books. Once again there are many things planned for the library this year so I'm hoping things will go smoothly and children will enjoy everything about the library and our school. Below I will outline some of the things that will happen in our library this year.

 

Library Classes are all on Fridays

 

Once again we ask that all children return their books each week so that they can borrow a new one. Children can not receive a new book if they haven't returned their old one.

Also each child is required to have a library bag to keep our books safe and clean from food and drinks.

The Library will also be open on a Wednesday and Friday first break and children are free to read books, play games, colour in, and or any other quiet play.

 

Book Fairs

We normally have 2 a year and the first one will happen in March. This one is a Scholastic. Our second is in Book Week in August and The Reader's Companion from Armidale usually host this. Book Fair this year will run from Friday 1st March- Friday 8th March. The Book Fair will be open at various times to cater for parents. Times will be advertised the week before.

 

Author Visits

We like authors to visit us and if they can't we will visit them. Last year we had an Author  visit us and it was a resounding success.

 

Simultaneous Reading Time.

Each year in May we join over 1 million children across our nation to read the same book at the same time.

 

Reading Platforms

Here at St Joseph's we don't just have beautiful books to borrow but the children also have access to several Reading Platforms. These are available to the children at home as well as school. All they need is access to a device. Over the next few weeks I will go through the platforms that we have so as not to overwhelm you.

 

Story Box Library

This is a great site where books are read to you. It is a website that has beautiful Australian books read to the children by authors, illustrators, actors, musicians and just fantastic storytellers.

This website is  suitable for all  our children.

https://storyboxlibrary.com.au/

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