Library News

From the Librarian

Over the last week, we have celebrated life in two very different ways. The Monarch butterflies emerged in our Library Wildlife container and some children had the pleasure of helping to release them on Monday morning when the day was sunny (and trying to be warm). Thank you to the helpers for giving the beautiful butterflies their start in life.

Meanwhile, last Wednesday, Mr Croser and I attended the funeral of our friend and author Christobel Mattingley. Mrs Fergusson has honoured this lady’s contribution to children’s literature by making two lovely displays of the two dozen Mattingley books that we have here. They reflect Christobel’s love for children, animals, and wider issues of conservation and justice for people experiencing tough challenges. She was a writer who always wrote with commitment, research and compassion as her works sharing Indigenous issues show.

On Tuesday, our Year 1 class read Christobel’s book, “Tucker’s Mob”, together. We hope children and teachers will enjoy selecting books to read from the displays. They range from Picture books, to Junior and Secondary fiction and non-fiction to Reference volumes.

Jo Croser

Librarian

Premier's Reading Challenge

Thank you to all the students that have handed in their completed PRC forms. Both in Primary and Secondary, students have been busy taking up the challenge and reading 12 books to complete the Premier’s Reading Challenge for 2019. There are still 11 WEEKS TO GO so to those who haven’t finished yet …. KEEP READING.  Remember to give feedback on the Challenge website go to Kidspace or Teenspace:

HAVE YOUR SAY!!! 

You can:

Rate-a-Read for a book prize,

Share your thoughts and ideas about your favourite books in the Blog,

Look for your name and friends' names in the Hall of Fame Honour Roll,

Recommend-A-Read for the PRC Booklists!

Pictured you can see the COMPLETION RECORDS up in the Library. Student’s names go onto their class star when they finish the Challenge.

We still have a way to go so HAVE FUN AND KEEP READING!

*Parents, I appreciate your time spent with your child on the Challenge. Please remember when students are selecting books to read, make sure that your child is reading from the correct level for their year and see that each book entered is signed off.

Marie Fergusson   

PRC Co-ordinator