Library

Victorian Premiers' Reading Challenge:

At last! After a significant amount of help desk time I am finally able to advise that our students are now in and activated so that they can start logging books. The website address is the same – accessible through SIMON and PAM but the username and password is now generated by the challenge itself. I will be emailing all Junior School students, starting with Year 6, to advise their details as quickly as I can. If your child is not using their school email (and my understanding is that they all are since we started remote teaching and learning) or they don’t hear from me by the end of the week please contact me – I may have missed them accidentally!!

Senior School students will be sent an email next week if they are in Year 7 and 8. If a student in Year 9 or 10 wishes to participate please ask them to email me.

Boobook Lending Program:

A Boobook Owl is an Australian owl that is very small (27 – 36 centimetres tall) and it has a lovely call that sounds like its name. Given we have Wisdom the owl on our badge and a carved statue of Wisdom in our Senior School Library we thought we would name our remote learning lending program after the cutest owl who\se name happens to include “BOOK”!

How will this work?

  1. All students now have a log in capacity to request or reserve books from within the catalogue, Oliver. Junior Students will go in through Orbit but the collection is exactly the same. A “how to” guide is attached to this newsletter.
  2. Students will need to allow time between reserving and collecting because we need to ensure that are books are safe from potential virus germs before they are collected by families. To collect a book late in the next week it will need to be requested by the middle of this week.
  3. All books should be returned and collected from the Senior Library where our set up will allow for safe distancing and cleansing before re-use.
  4. Collection will commence late next week for those people who have already asked for access to titles (3 families in total across both campuses).
  5. Initially we will offer collection on Thursdays and Friday from 2 – 3.15 starting next Thursday, and Miss Welst and myself will be on site at that time to ensure it all works.

If you would prefer you can email me with a request for a range of topics that your child or children may like.

The number of books will be limited to how many you can fit in a bag. To ensure safe transfer you will put them into the bag you bring with you.

I have my fingers crossed that all this works – it might be wise to email me before coming in to collect books next week just in case the system doesn’t work as expected.

Some Technical Assistance!

For families using iPads or iPhones to participate in remote learning these tips from Microsoft might help:

Improve the performance of OneNote for iPad or iPhone --For iPad, turn off Auto Sync Attachments by navigating to the Sync page in your OneNote settings. All text and ink content will still sync automatically, but OneNote pages with rich content like images and PDFs will wait to sync until you visit the page. After that, the page you visit will begin syncing automatically. Find more info on additional ways to improve performance of OneNote for iPad and iPhone. 

 

Best wishes and stay safe,

Margaret Simkin