Library News
Library days
This term, the library will be open before school and at lunchtime on Mondays and Wednesdays. Students are very welcome to return and borrow books during these times.
Please see below for K-6 library borrowing days:
Kindergarten - Friday
Year 1 - Thursday
Year 2 - Thursday
Year 3 - Wednesday
Year 4 - Friday
Year 5 - Friday
Year 6 - Friday
On Wednesday 19th May Kinder, Year 1 and Year 2 will be again participating in the National Simultaneous Storytime. National Simultaneous Storytime is held annually by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA). Every year a picture book, written and illustrated by an Australian author and illustrator, is read simultaneously in libraries, schools, pre-schools, childcare centres, family homes, bookshops and many other places around the country. Students then participate in classroom activities related to the book. It aims to promote the value of reading and literacy, using an Australian children's book. This year's book is Give Me Some Space by Philip Bunting. This year the book will be read by an astronaut in space!
If you would like to participate at home with young children, please go to https://www.alia.org.au/nss and register. You will then be given access to the book reading as well as activities.
Stay tuned for photos of the event!
If you are looking for quality literature for your children the CBCA Notables and Shortlisted books are a great place to start!
Each year, across Australia, the CBCA brings children and books together celebrating CBCA Book Week. Their mission is to promote and advocate for the sharing of quality literature for young people across Australia and to showcase Australian creators and collaborate widely to foster a love of reading.
The CBCA presents annual awards to books of literary merit, for outstanding contribution to Australian children's literature. The top 6 books in each category are added to a Shortlist and from this list the Winners and Honourable mentions are announced on 20th August . Attached you will find blurbs for the Shortlisted books.
If your child/ren have forgotten their login details please don't hesitate to email me (bbremner@arm.catholic.edu.au) and I can send them through to you, likewise, if your child needs help entering the books I am more than happy to assist them before school or at lunchtime every day.
The Premier's Reading Challenge 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 is open for all students from K - Year 9 and closes on Friday 20 August. Years 3-9 only need to read 20 books. Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2 students will complete the challenge with their classroom teacher through the books that are read to them on a daily basis.
For further information please go to https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/home.html where you should be able to find the answers to any questions you may have.
The NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge book lists open doors to a rich collection of children’s literature representing a range of books including fiction, non-fiction, picture books, poetry and drama, and include a wide variety of Australian authors.
