Library News

Summer Reading Challenge winner

Congratulations to our winner of the Summer Reading Challenge, Year 9’s Isabella Ferguson.  Isabella has won a prize voucher to Collin’s Bookstore, Echuca.  Thank you to everyone who participated and we hoped you enjoyed your summer reading.

Student Buy-in – Students’ books of choice

Selected by Rosy Marsh, Yr 8 Moore.

"A heartfelt and unflinching look at the reality of being a burn survivor and at the scars we all carry. This book is for everyone, burned or not, who has ever searched for a light in the darkness." --Stephanie Nielson, New York Times bestselling author of Heaven Is Here and a burn survivor.

Selected by Abbey Larkin, Yr 8 Moore.

“Harper Holt’s close-knit family is always moving. All she wants is to have a normal, quiet life – in one place. But when she experiences a devastating loss, she realises that her future will never be the way she imagined it. She will have to find a support system and a strength she never knew she had to overcome her grief and redefine herself.”

What is Student Buy-in?

Each week two Reading Room students (Yrs 7-9) go to Collins Booksellers, Echuca, with a College Library staff member to buy a $20 book the student would like to read.   The selected books are then brought back to class and discussed, before being catalogued as part of the College Library collection with a cover label saying who the book was selected by.  Through this program students have: increased choice and therefore commitment to what they read; exercised ownership of book selection; acknowledged reading as a prioritised, important use of time and resources; reading and book selection is seen as a peer activity; and our students are introduced to the experience of being in a bookshop and buying a book of their choice, sometimes for the first time.