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-

  1. Students complete a STAR Reading Placement test in February (and again mid-year). This is an online, adaptive, multiple choice test.
  2. Staff check that results are consistent with any other comprehension assessments.
  3. Students gain a Reading Range so that they have a ‘bank’ of 300 to approx. 900 titles to choose from.
  4. The student selects a book to read carefully from beginning to end.
  5. 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