Library News

Sora, by OverDrive, is a free reading app that helps students discover and enjoy leisure and classroom reading.  With Sora, students can access digital materials and can filter e-books and audiobooks for any interest and reading level. 

Important Note: Content is filtered for age appropriateness. Reading levels and age appropriateness factors are determined by publishing companies.  

SORA is available anywhere on smartphones, tablets and desktops.  All students have been taught how to access SORA.  

Occasionally we are sent SORA chosen books of the week or books of the month.  Below you will see some recommended reading.  

I have also attached a set of updated instructions for how to access SORA from different devices while at home.

National Simultaneous Storytime

Students from Kinder, Year 1 and Year 2 thoroughly enjoyed listening to Family Tree by Josh Pike.  After they had listened to the story each grade participated in an activity related to the book.

Students as Authors Writing Competition

This fabulous opportunity has been orchestrated by the Catholic Schools Office to showcase student creative writing! Entries must be in before 10th of June.  Students can submit their entries using the link on the promotional poster.  

Winning entries for each of the four competition categories will have the opportunity to work with local Armidale-based author/illustrator Trish Donald to develop their written story into an eBook. eBooks will then be published on the SORA digital library app where an audience of over 260,000 students from across 15 Dioceses can borrow them. It’s a fabulous opportunity for students to experience the publishing process and to work to develop their story for a broad audience.