Library News 

Premier’s Reading Challenge 2023

This year 36 St Xavier’s students participated in the Premier’s Reading Challenge. The Challenge aims to encourage a love of reading for leisure and pleasure in students, and to enable them to experience quality literature. It is not a competition but a challenge to each student to read, to read more and to read more widely. 

In infants, students read 30 books with assistance and primary read 20 books independently. Students, with the help of their parents, completed an online reading log throughout the challenge to keep a track of their progress. Last week the Jr Librarians and Mrs Fletcher presented the 2023 Premier's Reading Challenge certificates at assembly. 

School Holiday Reading

Did you know that St Xavier’s students have access to thousands of eBooks and audiobooks via the Armidale Catholic Schools Office Digital Library?

The digital library is accessible via the app called SORA, by Overdrive. Simply access the app store and search for Sora. Alternatively go to https://soraapp.com 

The next step will be for your child to log in using their own personal username and password. Students should know their username as it is the first part of their school email address, however if they need reminding please ask them to come and see me in the library. Their password is simply the same password that they use to log in to their chromebooks every day at school. 

The fabulous thing about SORA and the digital library is that it can be accessed from home and is available throughout the year, including during school holidays. This means access to thousands of eBooks and audiobooks at any time!