Resource Centre
MAG Scholastic Book Fair
WOW! What a busy week; from set-up at 9am Monday to pack-down at 7pm on Thursday. A huge thank you to so many people for your support for MAG’s annual Book Fair, from our maintenance team, families who purchased products, to community volunteers (including members of our Resource Centre Committee), and staff members who provided support.
Students were excited to see what titles were available for purchase. There was a wide range of books, activity books, diaries, posters and stationery. Our total book sales were $5013 granting us a total of $1745 raised for the Resource Centre, based on 35% commission. The books we will be able to purchase with these funds will head to shelves in the Resource Centre and also to build Year level classroom libraries. We hope these acquisitions will bring the joy of reading to current and future students. I hope the purchases your children have made will bring many hours of pleasure.
New Arrivals
NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge
With the start of Term 3, the Challenge starts to wind up. The final date for entering books online is 18 August. We encourage students to continue to read books from the official list and when completed, to enter them online. Students are required to read a set number of books to complete the Challenge successfully, depending on which year level they are in. Please refer to the table below for more information. If you have any questions, please contact me via email mheight@moamagrammar.nsw.edu.au
| Challenge level | Total number of books to be read | Minimum number of PRC books | Maximum number of Personal Choice books | Booklists included as PRC book choices |
| K-2 | 30 | 20 | 10 | K-2, 3-4, 5-6 |
| 3-4 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 3-4, 5-6, 7-9 |
| 5-6 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 5-6, 7-9 |
| 7-9 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 5-6, 7-9, 9plus |
| 3-9 | 20 | 10 | 10 | All booklists |
Book week
Since 1945, the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has celebrated books created by Australian children’s authors and illustrators. The CBCA Books of the year awards aim to; promote quality literature for young Australians by Australians, support and encourage a wide range of Australian writers and illustrators of books for young people aged 0 through 18 and celebrate contributions to Australian children’s literature.
Character Parade
As part of our Book Week celebrations, we invite all students and families to come to
school dressed up as their favourite book character on Wednesday 23 August, 2023.
We hope to see all students dress up and enjoy a great day. We will run our fabulously fun Primary Character Parade from 9:10am.
This year's theme for the Character Parade is “Read Grow Inspire”.
For costume inspiration, check out the links below:
Childrens Books Daily Blogs
2022: For kids: https://childrensbooksdaily.com/kids-costumes-for-book-week/
For adults https://childrensbooksdaily.com/book-week-costumes-for-adults/
2021:https://childrensbooksdaily.com/book-week-costumes-for-educators/
2014: https://childrensbooksdaily.com/book-week-2014-parade-costumes/
Your Kids next read podcast
2022: Episode 61: Books About Sport - Children's Books Daily... (childrensbooksdaily.com)
2021: https://open.spotify.com/episode/54RuJBPTSocTUm8mgGZE1K?si=VM-XjpeLTL2jn61gpltDUg
Keep reading everyone!
Ms Height, Mrs Jepson and Ms O’Neill
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, lunchtime 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 required, students are 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.
Requests
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, do not hesitate to contact us.