Library News

Welcome back to school for 2025! Apart from studying, the library is a place where students can relax, play games, or read. This term the library will host our annual school chess tournament. It will take the form of a knockout competition, with individual trophies for the best junior and senior chess player. Please enquire with library staff if you are interested. 

The library will also host a range of programs at recess and lunch during the first term. Each day the library proposes to offer a different activity. For instance, on a Friday students can put their technical skills to the test by building robots or replica plastic engines. In Term Four last year Isam I, Niall M, and Noah S. worked tirelessly on building one of the replica engines. During the construction phase the students displayed superior critical thinking skills to build the engine in record time. 

Another program designed to improve literacy skills is the Premier’s Reading Challenge (PRC). It is open to our Years 7 – 10 students from Monday 24 February, enabling participants to experience quality literature from a range of authors and genres. Students will need to read twenty books, including up to ten books of their own choice which are not available on the prescribed reading lists. Please email Mr Boyce on andrew.boyce@mn.catholic.edu.au if you wish to register.  

Mrs Medhurst will run the NRL Footy Tipping competition again this year. The season will kick off on Sunday 2 March and continue for twenty-seven rounds. Tips for Round One need to be submitted to library staff by Friday 28 February. From Round Two onwards, the deadline for submitting tips will be 3.15pm on Thursday afternoons. At the end of the twenty-seven rounds the top three place getters will receive prizes. It is free for staff and students to join. A leaderboard will be available for viewing in the junior fiction area of the library once the competition starts.

Finally, the library has a range of items available for loan including fiction and non-fiction titles. We look forward to providing a range of new programmes, services and displays to students during Term One. 

Andrew Boyce

Teacher/Librarian