Resource Centre
Book Week
MAG Scholastic Book Fair
As the book fair officially winds up, I would like to share with you the wonderful outcome. Once again, thank you to our families for their support of our annual event. Thank you to our amazing models (Primary school members of the Resource Centre Committee).
Ivy, Rosie, Billie, Evie, Darcy, Isa who are displaying the many wonderful books that will be added to our Resource Centre shelves and classroom libraries.
The reorders arrived at school early this week. As this newsletter goes to print 98% of reorders have been delivered to classrooms. We are still following up a couple of missing orders.
New Arrivals
NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge
The final date for entering books online is 18 August. We encourage students to continue to read books from the official list and when completed, to enter them online. Students are required to read a set number of books to complete the Challenge successfully, depending on which year level they are in. Please refer to the table below for more information. If you have any questions, please contact me via email mheight@moamagrammar.nsw.edu.au
| Challenge level | Total number of books to be read | Minimum number of PRC books | Maximum number of Personal Choice books | Booklists included as PRC book choices |
| K-2 | 30 | 20 | 10 | K-2, 3-4, 5-6 |
| 3-4 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 3-4, 5-6, 7-9 |
| 5-6 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 5-6, 7-9 |
| 7-9 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 5-6, 7-9, 9plus |
| 3-9 | 20 | 10 | 10 | All booklists |
Book week
Book Week is coming up on Monday 21 - Friday 25 August. Book Week is an opportunity to celebrate Australian literature.
As part of the week, we will be holding our annual book character parade on Wednesday 23 August where students dress as their favourite book character. This year's theme is “Read, Grow, Inspire.
All Primary students can come to school in their favourite book character costume. The Parade will commence at 9:00am on the Primary tennis courts. Parents and Carers of primary children are invited to attend the parade.
Secondary students have the option of wearing their favourite book character costume. Any Secondary students not in costume are expected to wear full school uniform. The Secondary Book character Parade will be held at lunchtime in the Resource Centre.
Families are encouraged to donate a gold coin to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, a community-led group which responds to requests from remote communities for culturally relevant books. Donations will be collected by Class teachers (Primary) and Tutor Group teachers (Secondary).
Book character costumes are to be in line with our school policy regarding appropriate dress at school.
We look forward to seeing our MAG community of students as their favorite book character on August 23.
For ideas of costumes check out the links below:
Childrens Books Daily Blogs
For kids: https://childrensbooksdaily.com/kids-costumes-for-book-week/
For adults https://childrensbooksdaily.com/book-week-costumes-for-adults/
https://childrensbooksdaily.com/book-week-costumes-for-educators/
https://childrensbooksdaily.com/book-week-2014-parade-costumes/
Your Kids next read podcast
Episode 61: Books About Sport - Children's Books Daily... (childrensbooksdaily.com)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/54RuJBPTSocTUm8mgGZE1K?si=VM-XjpeLTL2jn61gpltDUg
21 Book Week costume ideas from Australian authors - Allison Tait Author
Shein also has a huge variety of unique clothing options that can be perfect for your Book Week costumes. https://au.shein.com/kids?ici=au_tab04
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” Dr Seuss
Below are the the planned activities the Resource Centre Committee will be running during Book Week:
Monday:
Book: No Such Book: Students will be designing their own costumes using different items from around the home like the mum does in the story.
Tuesday:
Book: The Jigsaw puzzle in the post: Students a create a jigsaw puzzle which they put in an envelope and send it to a teacher or a friend
Wednesday:
Secondary Character Parade. Primary students are invited to come and watch and join in.
Thursday:
Book: Frank’s Red Hat.
“Find the red hat scavenger hunt” We will be hiding Red Hats around the library and at lunch join Ms O’Neill for a scavenger hunt to find them! Whoever finds the most wins a prize!
Friday: Taking the Indigenous theme from three of the books this year; “We are Australian”, “Our Dreaming” and “Coming Together”. Renata Kincaid is running the activity of designing indigenous sport t-shirts.
Keep reading everyone!
Ms Height, Mrs Jepson and Ms O’Neill
Resource Centre Team
Important details
Opening Hours:
Monday-Thursday 8:30am to 4:30pm, Friday 8:30am to 4:00pm
Borrowing and Returns
Students may borrow and return books before school, recess, lunchtime and after school. Primary School students also have the chance to borrow books during their fortnightly Library lessons.
Renewals
Students are able to re-borrow books for an additional two weeks by speaking to staff at the Library Circulation Desk. If further borrowing is required, students are to bring their book with them to allow the staff to sight the book. In addition, students can renew their book/s by emailing the Library.
Requests
If your child would like to borrow a specific book and the title is not included in our current catalogue, we will add this to our purchase wishlist.
Overdue notices
If you receive an overdue notice there is a chance that the books may been processed through our system after the email was sent, so we encourage all parents to follow up any issues by emailing the Resource Centre at library@moamagrammar.nsw.edu.au
If you have any other enquiries, do not hesitate to contact us.