LIBRARY
BOOKWEEK - Monday 23rd August - Friday 27th August
Mason Cooley said, “Reading gives us some place to go when we have to stay where we are" and this couldn't be anymore timelier with our current situation.
We have missed a lot of the book week celebrations being in lockdown, however, some we were able to move online, which was fantastic! One challenge we put out to our students was to share a pic of their current read and to make it as creative or as simple as they like.
Carly, our school librarian would like to announce the winners of this Challenge:
1st Place Winner - Creative entry - Evelyn C !
First place winner for her creative entry goes to Evelyn C for her submission of
‘How to Make a Movie in 12 days’
And next we have Kyla M for her "What I’m reading now" submission, ‘A Girl Called Justice’
Book of the Year 2021
On Friday 21st August, the CDCA (Children’s Book Council of Australia) announced their book of the year to start off the book week celebrations. The winner for older readers is ‘The End of The World is Bigger Than Love’ written by Davina Bell. Davina Bell is an award winning writer from Western Australia.
~ Identical twin sister Summer and Winter live alone on a remote island, sheltered from the fallout of a mysterious event that has laid waste to the rest of the world.
They survive on rations stockpiled by their father and spend their days reading and rereading their mother’s collection of classic literature - until the arrival of a mysterious stranger upends their carefully constructed reality.
At first Edward is a welcome distraction. But who is he really, and why has he come? As love blooms and the world stops spinning, the secrets of the girls’ past begin to unravel and escape is the only option. ~
We have this book in our catalogue in the library and is my current read, so when we get back onsite come and have a chat about the book and give it a go. - Carly, SCSC Librarian
Wednesday Chess Club
Once back onsite, Chess Club is held every Wednesday in the Library at lunch time. Be sure to come along!
Thursday Trivia
Trivia is on Thursdays once we are onsite, so get your teams together and join the fun!
Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge is closing 17th September 2021
The Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge is still open and Surf Coast Secondary College is excited to be participating. The PRC application offers a range of exciting features including:
- access to a library catalogue (including book images and blurbs).
- a modern user-friendly interface.
- rewarding students with badges as challenge milestones are achieved.
- the option for students to mark books as a favourite, give them a star rating or complete a book review.
The challenge is open to all Victorian children from birth to Year 10 in recognition of the importance of reading for literacy development. It is not a competition; but a personal challenge for children to read a set number of books by 17 September 2021. Students from Year 3 to Year 10 are challenged to read 15 books. All children who meet the challenge will receive a certificate of achievement signed by the Victorian Premier and former Premiers. To read the Premier’s letter to parents, view the booklist and for more information about the Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge CLICK HERE.