Library
The library has moved to the Staff Common Room until the end of the year. Students may come here to borrow from our limited supply of dayuse laptops and charge their own devices. We don’t have any books to loan-out, but students are of course welcome to come and return their books, or renew them for holiday reading.
Students were given the opportunity to borrow books for the upcoming holidays last week, and are reminded that our eBooks and eAudiobooks are available on the ePlatform. If they are unfamiliar with using this, please refer to the instructions below.
Entry to the Library in the Staff Room will be via the external doors (similar to when Breakfast Club is running).
Students can access our eBooks and e-Audiobook collection from home by using this link: https://libguides.bhs.vic.edu.au/home. Or go to the LibGuides homepage. Look for the icon below, and on the right:
There is also an app available to download to your phone or tablet/iPad so that you can read or listen to books wherever you are.
You can borrow eBooks and eAudiobooks for up to 2 weeks. Click on “Save for later” if you’re not ready to borrow the item yet – this will save them to your “Saved Titles List”. eBooks also contain features that make them dyslexic-friendly – you can change the text font, text spacing, and background colour.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask a library staff member!
(The ePlatform dashboard)
Congratulations to the team from 8A (Gold House) who took out 1st place in the Year 8 Readers’ Cup competition, which was held on Tuesday 18th November. The team from 8 Silver took out 2nd place, and the team from 8 Ebony came 3rd. Thank you to all who participated on the day, we will be organising a date for your pizza lunch shortly!
8A Team: Elliott Savage, Ben Fuller, and Mahith Gogari
8 Ebony Team: Noah Michielin, Rafferty Ganly, and Harrison McDougall, with Ayden Ruston joining from 8 Mango
8 Silver Team: Declan Fletcher, Dhyan Patel, Alyssa Noble, and Archie Thompson
Book of the Week
Handle with care
By Louisa Reid
16-year-old Ashley and Ruby are best mates – Ashley comes from a poor, but loving family and enjoys running in competitions, while Ruby is academically gifted and comes from a wealthy household, but has an emotionally-distant mother. The girls’ friendship is tested when Ruby gives birth to a child in history class one day. Ruby didn’t know she was pregnant and now faces the prospect of social isolation at school and potentially losing Ashley’s friendship, besides dealing with the fact that she now has a child – one she wants nothing to do with.
When the identity of the baby’s father comes out, Ruby and Ashley’s friendship begins to crack, and Ruby’s mental health takes a turn for the worse as tensions between her, Ashley, and their families come to a dramatic head.
Partly told as a verse novel, Handle with care is a gut-wrenching story about friendship and mental health, and touches on themes such as peer pressure, unrequited love, parental neglect, and motherhood. I thoroughly recommend this book to both boys and girls – it is a very moving and well-told story, definitely worth a read!
Ms Winfield