Library

Mrs Holley

NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge 2023

The 2023 NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge begins today! The Premier’s Reading Challenge (PRC) involves students reading books from predetermined lists, logging them online or onto their paper reading log and, at the end of the Challenge, receiving a certificate of completion. Any books on the Premier’s Reading Challenge booklist that your child has read or you have read to your child during the summer holidays can be counted towards this year’s challenge, just note the title and the author. The PRC Booklist can be found here PRC Booklist

The Challenge aims to encourage a love of reading for pleasure and to enable students to experience quality literature. It is not a competition but a challenge for each student to read, to read more and to read more widely.

This year, all Early Stage 1 and Stage 1 students are able to complete this challenge at school during their Library and English lessons.

Usernames and passwords will be sent home next week. For students in Years 1 - 6 your login details are the same as last year.

If you have any queries regarding the Premier’s Reading Challenge visit the PRC website NSW Premier's Reading Challenge or send me through an email with your concerns and I will endeavour to answer your questions mholley@arm.catholic.edu.au

The dates for 2023 are -

Monday 27 February 2023- challenge opens

Friday 18 August 2023 - challenge closes

Overdue Books

Sadly, there are still quite a few library books that have not been returned from last year! I encourage ALL students (with some help from their families) to check their homes and cars for any overdue library books. They are easy to recognise, they have a St Joseph’s barcode on the back cover and are stamped inside with the school stamp. All overdue books are warmly welcomed back!

New Books

We are very fortunate here at St Joseph’s to have so many wonderful new books to add to our library collection. Thanks to the generosity of the Armidale Catholic Schools Office, together with the support shown by our school community for Book Club we have been able to add new graphic novels, fiction, junior fiction and non-fiction books to our library collection.

Library Borrowing

Please don’t forget that THURSDAY and FRIDAY are Library Days at St Joseph’s. Students will require a library bag on that day for the safe transportation of library books between home and school.

Reading at Home

The students at St Joseph’s are able to access ebooks and audiobooks 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.

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