Library News

Book Borrowing and Library Awards

Library is well and truly up and running this year! Students and teachers are thoroughly enjoying being back at school and reading, sharing and borrowing books.

In order to borrow and take books home we ask that all students bring along a library bag. Please help your child to remember their library bag on their relevant library day – if any student does not have a library bag, any protective bag with their name on it will do. We have a small supply of ‘spare’ bags should your child need one, so please let us know if this is the case.

After a twelve-month hiatus we are pleased to announce our Library Awards system will be in operation once again! For those who are new to the school, or who are unaware, the library awards process involves students bringing a library bag each week to their weekly class library session and borrowing and/or renewing their books for three weeks in a row. Borrowing is recorded and once the three weeks have been reached, they will place their name into our Library Awards entries box. Entries in the box are held for the entire year, so if names have been placed earlier in the year, they have just as much chance of being selected as more recent ones throughout the year.

Our Year 6 students will regularly draw out names from this box and make an announcement on Monday mornings just before recess. The students who are selected will be invited to go to the library to collect a library awards certificate and select a book of their own to keep from a collection we have set aside for this purpose.

We hope to see library bags coming along each week and lots of borrowing happening from our fabulous library collection!

Parent Helpers

Would you like to help us in our library?

Thursday afternoons, 2.30pm – 3:30pm, has been set aside as a time for parents/grandparents/friends, etc., to assist with many tasks in our library which include book processing, covering, shelving and shelf tidying!

If you’d like any further information regarding this, please do not hesitate to contact the school at any stage.

We will be starting next week (20th February) and ask that you sign in at the office to register your attendance and ensure you have had your WWCC registered with the school.

I’m looking forward to seeing new faces, as well as our old ones, for those parents and friends who continue to be so generous with their time.

Scholastic Book Club

Once again, our school is participating in the Scholastic Book Club! There are 8 editions throughout the year when this opportunity will happen, i.e. twice a term. Students will be sent home with the current catalogue where you’ll find award-winning books and bestsellers, as well as old and new favourites. We recommend them because the books span a wide range of children’s reading levels and interests and because they are inexpensive (some books cost as little as $3!)

Orders can be either lodged directly online via the Scholastic LOOP system or physically sent to school, where our Book Club Organiser parent, Sarah Huxley, will process the order. Books generally arrive around two weeks of the cut-off date and are distributed to directly to students at school (unless another delivery request has been made – i.e. gifts, etc.) Our school receives a generous commission from all sales which helps us to fund popular book purchasing from these catalogues throughout the school.

Edition 1 brochure was sent home last week and cut-off date for orders is: 14th February (today!!)

Information regarding how to complete an online order can be found at www.scholastic.com.au/LOOP