Library News
Scholastic Book Club Issue 4 has been handed out. Please ensure that all orders are completed by Monday 5th June.
This week, Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2 once again participated in the National Simultaneous Storytime. This year's book was The Speedy Sloth written by Rebecca Young and illustrated by Heath McKenzie.
National Simultaneous Storytime is held annually by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA). Every year a picture book, written and illustrated by an Australian author and illustrator, is read simultaneously in libraries, schools, pre-schools, childcare centres, family homes, bookshops and many other places around the country. Students then participate in classroom activities related to the book. It aims to promote the value of reading and literacy, using an Australian children's book.
The Premier's Reading Challenge aims to encourage a love of reading for leisure and pleasure in students, and to enable them to experience quality literature. It is not a competition but a challenge to each student to read, to read more and to read more widely.
The Premier's Reading Challenge (PRC) is available for all NSW students in Kindergarten to Year 9.
The 2023 Challenge kicked off Monday 27 February and closes Friday 18 August (midnight) for students.
For further information please go to https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/home.html where you should be able to find the answers to any questions you may have.
The Challenge involves over 300,000 students from Kindergarten to Year 9 and more than 2100 government, non-government and home schools. The NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge book lists open doors to a rich collection of children’s literature representing a range of books including fiction, non-fiction, picture books, poetry and drama, and include a wide variety of Australian authors.
K-2 students only need to read 30 books while Years 3-9 only need to read 20 between the 27th February and 18th August. It is a wonderful initiative that I encourage all students to be a part of. Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2 students will complete the challenge with their classroom teacher through the books that are read to them on a daily basis. All other students who would like to participate will need to see Miss Bremner for their login in details.
