The Bookshelf Bulletin

Hello families and friends 

We can’t believe how quickly this term has gone! The new Library Management System is up and running and students are able to browse the catalogue, reserve books and check on their loans. The new ‘landing page’ has student recommendations, quizzes, blogs, reviews and news items for them to read and catch up. Open it up and take a look. If you have previously downloaded the QR code for Functional Solutions you will need to download the new one for AccessIt. To gain access students simply use their student code, for example (ABC0001) using the password ‘student’ or use the QR code above. 

To join or access our Google Classroom use the QR code or the classroom code to join 5d7qree. We look forward to continuing to work with the students, finding ways to engage them with the library and their reading journey. 

Dymocks Children’s Charities grant

Over the last two months we have received a large shipment of the books awarded by Dymocks Children’s Charities last year. We have processed them and they are now part of the collection ready for students to borrow. These photos show a selection of the titles we have received. We would like to thank Dymocks Children’s Charities for choosing us to receive the grant of $15,000 worth of books. This has gone a long way to updating our collection and we look forward to further shipments in the near future. Look for the green Dymocks sticker in the front of each of the titles.  

Book of the Month

The books we are sharing as our Book of the Month this month are also taken from the new collection items donated by Dymocks Children’s Charities. 

This month we have a series of interactive novels for the highly adventurous. Read if you dare! Mistakes will cost you dearly!

YOU CHOOSE is a series of interactive books where the reader gets to make key decisions about how the story progresses. Numerous intertwining story paths and a plethora of different endings (many of them resulting in certain death), combined with a variety of genres and an odd assortment of really weird characters should provide a roller-coaster ride of a reading adventure. Each book is a stand-alone story. They do not need to be read in any particular order.

The covers and internal illustrations are by the wonderfully talented James Hart.

We look forward to sharing more fun and interesting titles in the next newsletter. 

Melinda, Will and Andrea.