Library News

BOOK FAIR 2024🎉📔

What an incredible week this has been for our 2024 Scholastic Book Fair! We exceeded the book sales by $1000 and will now be able to use sales points to purchase an array of new books for our school library, how exciting! The book guessing competition "who picked that book???" winner will be announced on Monday - we hope the students had fun participating in this new addition to the 2024 book fair! A massive thank you goes out for all the support from families in a time where purse strings are being stretched to capacity. Karen would also like to make a special mention to the regular cohort of Stage 3 students that showed up every day to offer a helping hand, she says she couldn't have done it without you.

We would like to say a massive thank you to Karen herself for all of her hard work in organising this year's 2024 book fair & guessing competition, you've done such a great job again and I'm sure all of the students loved it!!!

Don't Forget:

Overdue books need to be returned to the library asap!
Please ensure your child has a library bag so they can enjoy these reads at their leisure at home! Library Bags 🤝New Books
Tuesday and Thursday are our new school library borrowing days.
The Premier's Reading Challenge is still going and doesn't end until Friday, 23rd August 2024.

Thank you to all our wonderful students who borrow books every week.

2024 Students as Authors Writing Competition

The 2024 'Students As Authors' Writing Competition is now open and the theme is Future Worlds.

The competition is designed to give students an authentic purpose and audience for their writing and provide an opportunity to showcase the writing talents of our students through publication to SORA, the digital library. Please support students to enter their work via the QR code embedded in the promo poster. The competition will close June 14th.

Premier’s Reading Challenge 2024

The Premiers Reading Challenge began on the 26th of February and runs through to the 23rd of August 2024.

This voluntary challenge involves the children reading a specified number of books from a particular list and keeping a log of the books read. The challenge aims to encourage a love of reading for pleasure in students and to enable them to experience quality literature. It is not a competition but a challenge for children to read, to read more, and to read more widely. If you would like more information about the challenge, visit the PRC website here.

Further information will be sent home in the coming weeks and there will be further updates provided in forthcoming newsletters. Don't forget that any books that you are currently reading or that you have read since the completion of last year's challenge may be included in this year's list.

It is also expected that parents and students will be responsible for keeping track of books read. This can be easily done by logging on to the PRC site and adding them to their child's reading record. This also avoids the list getting lost.

Please contact the office if you are need your login details or password.

Reading at Home

Don't forget that your child has 24/7 access to reading material through SORA Online.

SORA, by Overdrive.

Simply access the app store and search for Sora. Alternatively use this link - SORA App

Once in the app you will need to add our Library by selecting

I have a setup code (at the bottom of the screen)

YOUR SETUP CODE IS: CENETAU

You will be prompted to

Select I have a setup code
Enter setup code cenetau
Select ACEN (Australian Catholic Education Network) from the drop down menu.
Log in using your own personal username and password
Choose diocese Armidale
Username: is your school username (the first part of your email address)
Password: the same password that you use to log into your chromebooks every day at school!
Any problems after logging in try looking in the HELP section in settings which can be found by clicking the 3 lines at the TOP RIGHT HAND corner OR email guyadmin@arm.catholic.edu.au

BOOK WEEK 2024