Library

It has been a fantastic term here in the library! Thank you to everyone for encouraging your children to read at home and for making sure books come back to school. If you see any books at home with the “Melton West P.S” barcode on the back and a white label with either a single letter (Picture book), 3 letters (Chapter book or graphic novel) or numbers on the back (Non-fiction book), these need to come back to school before we go on holidays. 

Here are the Term 2 Library Statistics for 2026. 

• 135 books were added to the library’s collection. 

• 2’345 loans in Term 2 over 8 weeks - with student specific loans being 1’492 - Up from last term by 169 books. 

• Total loans per year level for Term 2: 

  • Preps: 187

  • Year 1:184

  • Year 2: 299→ making them the most borrowing year level!

  • Year 3: 252

  • Year 4: 222

  • Year 5: 224

  • Year 6: 124

• Top borrowing classes for each year level (as split across classrooms):

  • Prep D = 58

  • 1C = 79

  • 2B = 122

  • 3/4D = 311→ making them the most borrowing class in the entire school!

  • 5/6B =  131

• Our top borrowing staff member this term is Mrs Nowak with 133 loans for her literacy groups. 

  • #2 Ms Warren (104)

  • #3 Ms Osborn (82)

  • #4 Ms Cobbledick (79)

  • #5 Miss Adamou (63)

The top 10 student borrowers for Term 4 were

• Achatak P. 3/4D - 27

• Max O. 3/4D - 23

• Chayse R. 3/4D - 23

• Chloe M. 3/4D - 19

• Jack F. 5/6B - 16

• Izabelle D. 5/6B - 15

• Peati Blessing N. 3/4D - 15

• Inaaya A. 2B - 14

• Raymond G. 3/4D - 14

• Luna S. 2B - 14

These classes and students will receive their certificates tomorrow at assembly! 

Our top 3 student borrowers Achatak, Max and Chayse will all receive a $10 voucher to use on a Scholastic Book Club order to further celebrate their wonderful efforts. Thanks to Sam from Scholastic, we can do this for our top 3 borrowers each term! 

New feedback form:

I have created a feedback form for the parents and carers to give me feedback on how effective the ClassDojo calendar notifications have been for bringing books back from home on time. Even though we have seen an uptick in the books being borrowed, I want to make sure that it’s helpful to families and the only way that I can be sure of that is by getting this feedback. You can access that form here via this link (https://forms.gle/UsDT79zXxwCzdgLb9) and it is completely anonymous. It may ask you to log into a Google account in order to access the form but it has been set so that emails and names are not collected. Because it's anonymous, please refrain from mentioning your child's name or their class and use phrases such as "my child", "my children", and "my child's class" instead. For more details please see the introductory page of the form. I hope to inform the community of the results and future plans by the end of next week. 

Book Hospital:

In the library I have a special spot just for books that need to be checked in to Book Hospital. I created these coloured coded book marks to let me know what “diagnosis” the books are facing. 

I can fix detached spines, torn pages (as long as I have both pieces), torn covers, pages falling out, and some graffiti as long as it’s in pencil. Life happens and sometimes books get a little hurt but as long as it can be brought back to school, I can do my best to make it as good as new. 

There is currently no fee charged for books that are damaged or lost so if that may be something that holds families back from returning books there is nothing to worry about. 

Please reach out to me via Class Dojo (Miss Reed) if you have any questions or concerns. 

Bye for now, 

Miss Tye