Library
Library News
Library Staff: Lynne Marks, Joanne Edwards, Wai-Peng Heath
Junior Library
Lunchtime Monday
Middle/ Senior Library:
Before School:
Monday and Friday 8.45-9.00am
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday: 8.15-9.00 am
Monday to Friday: Recess and Lunch
After school:
Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays until 4pm.
Wednesdays until 3.45pm.
Email: library@standrews.vic.edu.au
Library Lessons
Our Prep to Year 6 students participate in a Library lesson once each week. Students should bring their library bag to each lesson so they always have the opportunity to borrow books. Prep to Year 4 students can have 2 books out at a time, while years 5 and 6 can have up to 3.
The Junior Library books are divided into 4 sections – Picture Books, Fiction, Non-Fiction (Information) and Series. Children are encouraged to borrow from a variety of sections, but of course, most children have their favourites!
When can Prep to Year 4 borrow from the Junior Library?
- In their Library class
- Monday at lunchtime
- or any day except Wednesday from 3.30 to 3.50pm
*Students need to bring their library bag to borrow
Year 5 and 6 students can borrow from either the Junior Library or the Years 5-12 collection in the Middle/Senior Library. A yellow dot identifies Year 5-12 books.
Accelerated Reading Program
Our Year 4-6 students use the A.R. Program to enrich their reading and comprehension abilities and expose them to a wide variety of authors and genres. This Program is run jointly by the classroom teacher and library. In brief, the following steps take place-
- Students complete a STAR Reading Placement test in February (and again mid-year). This is an online, adaptive, multiple choice test.
- Staff check that results are consistent with any other comprehension assessments.
- Students gain a Reading Range so that they have a ‘bank’ of 300 to approx. 900 titles to choose from.
- The student selects a book to read carefully from beginning to end.
- The student completes a quick multiple choice quiz on their iPad/computer to check that they read the book and understood what they had read.
Our students are provided with a minimum of 1 hour per week AR Reading time each week in the classroom and need to complete a minimum of 1 hour each week of AR reading at home.
Over time, students increase their Reading Range levels.
Joanne Edwards
Library Staff