Library News
The Challenge is on!
The annual Australia-wide Premiers’ Reading Challenge (PRC) is on! This is not a competition; it's a challenge to encourage young people to read for fun and to read as many books as they can up until 6 September 2019.
Students in Yrs 7 - 10 have already been registered to participate in the Challenge, thanks to our PRC Coordinator, Mrs Celine Bush, from the College Learning Enhancement Team.
All Year 7 – 9 students can request their individual username and password from their Reading Room teacher. Year 10 students can request their login details from their Learning Mentor.
Then all students have to do is:
1. Keep an online record of their reading on the PRC website. For more information go to: https://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/events/prc/Pages/default.aspx?Redirect=1
2. Between now and 6 Sept 2019 students in Years 7 – 9 read 10 or more books, and students in Year 10 read five or more books, from the relevant PRC Booklist for their year level. For more details go to: https://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/events/prc/Pages/default.aspx?Redirect=1
To see the PRC Booklists go to:
Book list years 7 and 8 by author (xlsx - 466.11kb)
Book list years 9 and 10 by author (xlsx - 382.81kb)
Book list year 10 super challenge by author (xlsx - 327.45kb) .
Copies of the PRC Booklists are available in the College Library. Books on the Booklists from the Library Collection are on display.
Author/ Scriptwriter Phillip Gwynne visit 11 September 2019
Renowned author and scriptwriter, Phillip Gwynne, will be visiting our College Wednesday 11 September 2019 for presentations and workshops. His first novel Deadly Unna? was a literary hit and was made into the feature film Australian Rules, for which Phillip won an Australian Film Institute award.
Mr Gwynne is one of eight children who grew up in a rural house that had no books but who went on to become a multi award-winning novelist and scriptwriter. Phillip has been giving school talks and running writing workshops for 20 years and his presentations and workshops are funny, moving and inspirational. As a father himself, he is passionate about working with young people to nurture and develop their reading and writing. Penguin Random House will publish two new books by this author in 2019: The Lords of Melody (middle reader), and The Break (YA novel).
NAIDOC Week Essay Writing Competition
NAIDOC Week Celebrations are held across Australia each July 7 - 14 to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
The NAIDOC Week Essay Writing Competition is open to Years 7 – 12. Students are invited to write up to 1500 words on the topic:
"Explain the importance of Reconciliation and detail the progress that has been made, and how to best achieve Reconciliation.”
Prizes include Samsung Galaxy Mobile Phones, Apple Macbook Pro laptops, digital cameras or Safe Driving Lessons.
Entry forms are available from Mr Warren or the College Library. The Competition closes Tuesday 25 June.
2019 Insight Creative Writing Competition
Students are invited to express their creativity and be in the running for over $3,000 in cash prizes in the Insight Creative Writing Competition. The annual competition is open to all students Year 7 – 12. The aims of the Competition are to ignite a passion for creative writing in secondary school students and to inspire voices for the future.
The 2019 topic is: “The price you pay.” Entries close Thursday 16 August.
For entry details and to see prize-winning entries from previous years go to: http://www.insightpublications.com.au/writing competition