Library News

Year 9 Personal Best project

We are excited to be working with Year 9 students Kate Parker and Tess Harvey, from Mr Cantwell’s Religious Education class, to support their creative Personal Best Project in the College Library.  Kate and Tess have created a design and are in the process of creating wall artwork in the Library’s Reading Space.  The beautiful artwork is beginning to take shape.  Stay tuned as the project develops.

Student Buy-in this week

Student Buy-in* is one of the many innovative programs at St. Joseph’s. Student names and book selections will now be included in each College Newsletter. This week Year 9 Delany students from Ms Wood’s Reading Room class selected:

Zero Repeat Forever (fiction) selected by Charlize Baines: “Perfect for the fans of The 5th Wave and I am Number Four.”

The Lord of The Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (fiction) selected by Brodie Watson: “The Fellowship of the Ring is the first part of J.R.R Tolkien’s epic adventure The Lord of The Rings a beautifully written masterpiece which is among the greatest works of imaginative fiction of the twentieth century.”

Contender: The Chosen selected by Elijah Turner: “Convicted of a crime he didn’t commit, Cade is facing a year in reform school when he finds himself suddenly transported to another realm.”

Gone selected by Callum Walker: “In the blink of an eye. Everyone disappears.  Gone.”

*Student Buy-in is where each week four Reading Room students (Yrs 7-9) are selected by their Reading Room teacher to go on an excursion with a College Library staff member to Collins Booksellers, Echuca, to buy a book the student would like to read.   Each student has a $20 voucher to make their purchase. On their return to school, students show their books to their class, saying what each book is about and why they picked it.  The books are then catalogued as part of the Library collection and made available for loan, with a sticker on the front saying who the book was selected by.  All the books selected by students are featured in a display in the College Library.  Through this program students have increased choice and therefore commitment to what they read; ownership of book selection; reading is acknowledged as a prioritised, important use of time and resources; reading and books selection is seen as a peer activity; and our students are introduced to the experience of being in a bookshop and buying a book of their choice, sometimes for the first time.