Library News 

2022 Premier's Reading Challenge

Each year, here at St. Joseph’s School, we offer our students the opportunity to participate in the Premier’s Reading Challenge.

What is the Premier’s Reading Challenge (PRC)?

The Premier’s Reading Challenge is a voluntary challenge that involves the children reading a specified number of books, chosen from a predetermined list and logging the titles of the books they read once they have completed them. It 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 open to all NSW students in Kindergarten to Year 9. This year, the Challenge officially opens on Monday 28th February, 2022 and closes on Friday 19th August, 2022.

Information about the Premier’s Reading Challenge, student logins and reading logs will be sent home with your child next Friday after their library lesson. Further information may also be found by visiting the Premier’s Reading Challenge website:

https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/home.html. 

Your child’s involvement in the Premier’s Reading Challenge is the perfect opportunity to assist in the improvement of their reading skills, as well as realising that feeling of self-satisfaction once the Challenge has been completed. Upon completion of the Challenge, your child will receive a PRC certificate in recognition of their success.

HERE ARE SOME INTERESTING STATISTICS FOLLOWING THE 2021 CHALLENGE.

Lunch Time in the Library

It has been absolutely amazing to see the number of students taking the opportunity to visit the library during second break on Thursdays and Fridays! If you would like to find a quiet spot to read a book, draw a picture, colour a picture or solve a jigsaw – I’ll see you in the library! 

Lunch Time Chess

The shared space in the primary area is open everyday for the students to enjoy chess and robotics. It has been great to see our students using this opportunity to engage in these activities.

WORLDBOOK Online

World Book Online is an amazing, free resource that is available to every student of St. Joseph’s for school and/or personal use. I strongly encourage you and your child to login and take the opportunity to experience the many features World Book Online offers! It is an offer too good to refuse!

Library Borrowing

Please don’t forget that FRIDAY is Library Day at St Joseph’s and students will require a library bag on that day for the safe transportation of library books between home and school