Resource Centre
New Books for August-September
Reading Materials
For families looking for new reading material for their children, particularly those in Year 5 and up (even the adults) - think outside the square and explore the range of audio books and ebooks we have available to borrow on our Wheelers platform. You can find these materials at https://mags.wheelers.co/ You may be surprised at what you find!
All you will need to access Wheelers, is your school usernames and password.
I have been utilizing our platform over the the last month I have listened to an audio book;
The Diary of a Young girl: The definitive edition by Anne Frank. I chose to listen to this book as I thought I had read it before, but this definitive edition had details I didn’t remember from the book I read when I was a teenager.
I found the audio book was a great way to access the story whilst I was doing other things.
I have also begun to read one of the ebooks on my laptop: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. I have to say reading it on my screen was not as bad as I thought. I did learn that I can not read the ebook version on my laptop when going to bed as it hurts slightly more that when you fall asleep with a book in hand. But it is definitely a convenient way of accessing books. One of my future queries to Wheelers will be whether users can access the platform on e-Readers. I will let you know what my research shows.
Premier’s Reading Challenge (PRC) 2021
Mrs Price has spent many hours over the last 8+ months working with families to locate passwords, assisting with entering books and finally, last Friday, verifying books that had been entered by families.
Mrs Price has informed me that 20 out of the 34 students registered and completed the Challenge.
to all the students who participated. I believe those whom fell short will be able to continue adding books to this year's list to be recognised in 2022. Check the updated rules on the website.
Keep reading everyone!
Ms Height, Mrs Price and Mrs Jepson
Resource Centre Team
Important details
Opening Hours:
Monday-Thursday 8.30am to 4.30pm
Friday 8.30am to 4.00pm
Borrowing and Returns
Students may borrow and return books before school, recess, lunch time and after school. Primary School students also have the chance to borrow books during their fortnightly Library lessons.
Renewals
Students are able to re-borrow books for an additional two weeks by speaking to staff at the Library Circulation Desk. If further borrowing is requested after this, students are required to bring their book with them to allow the staff to sight the book. In addition, students can renew their book/s by emailing the Library.
Request
If your child would like to borrow a specific book and the title is not included in our current catalogue, we will add this to our purchase wishlist.
Overdue notices
If you receive an overdue notice there is a chance that the books may been processed through our system after the email was sent, so we encourage all parents to follow up any issues by emailing the Resource Centre at library@moamagrammar.nsw.edu.au
If you have any other enquiries, issues or concerns please do not hesitate to contact us via phone by ringing the main office or via email address library@moamagrammar.nsw.edu.au.