The 2021 Premiers' Reading Challenge is well underway and well done to the 40+ students who signed up for the 2021 Challenge. Good luck everyone. Email Miss Marshall if you need help to give ratings or add books - remember to do Challenge and Choice books :) I will be verifying books every Monday to be added to your Challenge list of books completed. 17th September 2021: Premiers' Reading Challenge ends and the Challenge application closes...

PRC Website for logging in and info:

https://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/events/prc/Pages/default.aspx?Redirect=1

THIS HAS NOW CLOSED - WELL DONE TO OUR SUPER READERS WHO PARTICIPATED -YOUR CERTIFICATES WILL BE PRESENTED IN TERM 4

Children's Book Council of Australia Book Week 2021 POSTPONED UNTIL WE ARE ONSITE

MFG Lineup

1 Daily Literature Quiz - Lucky dip prizes - drawn at 1pm every day - see in the library foyer for entry box and questions

2 Book Week Dress ups Date TBC theme Old Worlds, New Worlds, Other Worlds - See Compass and our Student Leadership Team is coming to classrooms to promote - Donate a book instead of bringing a gold coin on the day if you can :)

3 Lunchtime Book Week performance - Celtic storytelling with Ms Niki Na Meadhra - 25 students only in Bell Tower Drama Room - ticketed event - sign up in the library and collect golden ticket - please eat before you attend - strictly starting 1pm. Obviously date will be confirmed when we are on site :)

4 Lunchtime Literature Kahoot with House Points awarded - Senior Students Leadership Team

5 Writing Competition drawn at 3.30 p.m. September 30th - see competition outline below.

Theme: Old Worlds, New Worlds, Other Worlds -We have Library Displays showcasing our Historical Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy collections and hope to get some great photos of students and staff dressed as their favourite characters from these genres. Many students have already shared their costume ideas. I've found great ideas on Pinterest. Don't forget the Wizarding World, the Wizard of Oz, The Hunger Games, Game of thrones, Starwars or your favourite historical fiction character!!! Dress as a fictional character from an old world, new world or other world. Lots of time to get your costume planned or to team up with mates - we will take lots of photos for the year book so you will be immortalized.

Book Week Donations for Rotary

In lieu of the gold coin donation usually collected during casual dress and themed dress ups at MFG we always collect donated books for Rotary - so it's a good chance during home based learning to clean out the book cases at home. Our boxes for donations are in the library foyer - you are welcome to drop the books in on the day. Thanks for your help. Hope to see your creative costumes!!! The date for Book Week Dress Up Day will be confirmed when we are back on site - likely to be in OCTOBER !!!!

Book Week Writing Competition

Our annual writing competition is open RIGHT NOW though- see below!!! Good Luck. Now closing Thursday Sept 30th extended !!!

IMPORTANT : Accessing Resources from home and school

Compass > Favourites > Clickview (Digital videos)

Access

Clickview Inventions Competition 2021- click here to enter!!!

Entries open: 22 August 2021 Entries close: 17 September 2021 Finalist announced: November 2021 Winners announced: December 2021

Compass > Favourites >Echo online (online newspaper searching) no login or password needed for duration of lockdown

Compass > Favourites >MFG Library Website

Library Guide: Home

Home
Reading Inspirations
Research Databases and Websites
Libguides by Subject Area - Libguides in blue are active links
ABC Splash digital videos
Digital newspapers - access via State Library of Victoria(Newspaper articles on particular topics can also be accessed via Compass > Favourites > ECHO - free access for all schools online during home learning 2021)
VCAA resources - all subjects VCE
ATAR Notes free online Head Start Lectures for Year 10-12 students in Victoria. 2021
Open Educational Resources
Referencing - How to make a bibliography
CBCA Book Week 2021 POSTPONED
Premier's Reading Challenge 2021
Folktales, Fairytales, Legends and Mythology & Politically Correct Fairytales
Reconciliation Week: Find out about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, history, culture, and rights.
Audio books - free
MFG CLUBS 2021
Students' Bill of Rights
Our prayer for the 21st Century - a real gem
MFG School Archives

Compass > Favourites >SLASA (online referencing generator - making a bibliography).

For years 7-9 I suggest you select Middle School, for Years 10 - 12 I suggest you use Senior Bibliography - the difference between them is the range of resources. You locate info about the book/website/video you are using and put the info into the empty fields eg. Author, Title etc and press 'Create citation'.

Copy and paste the citation created into your bibliography. The bibliography goes at the end of your report - here is a sample.

Bibliography

Foot, G 2019, ‘Health drinks: turmeric', The best thing since sliced bread?, podcast, 20 February, accessed 25 February 2019, <https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p071h3tx>.

Fujishin, R 2016, Natural bridges: a guide to interpersonal communication, Routledge, Abbingdon, England.

Fujishin, R 2018, The natural speaker, 9th edn, Routledge, New York.

Hasler, E 2018, The built environment, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool.

Compass > Favourites >Wheelers ebooks (access using Compass username and password). Currently there are 2433 books - fiction, non fiction and special wellness collection ebooks and audio books. Email I.T. if you need help to login.

Compass > Favourites >World Book Encyclopaedia online

Find accurate information on your research topic. Select Kids, Students or Advanced depending upon the depth of information you require and your reading level. There are lots of great tools to explore.

I enclose a link to walk you through some features:

https://www.worldbookonline.com/training/video_tutorials/video_tutorials.htm

REMINDER - Please please return your MFG Library books when we get back - we have 150 books outstanding and I will award House Points for every house without overdues.

Note - Mid November bills will be issued for all outstanding items and these cannot be refunded if the books are found as we have ordered replacements... the bills will be outstanding on student MFG accounts...thanks for helping us by returning all of our books to share with other students.

ROTARY - while you are home feel free to clear out any unwanted books for Rotary and bring them into school to the big box in the library foyer. Rotary picks these up every year for their big charity fundraising booksale! We love helping them.

Miss Marshall

Manager of Library Services and School Archives

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