LIBRARY NEWS - 

PREMIER’S READING CHALLENGE 2020

The Premier’s Reading Challenge officially starts on Monday, 2nd March and we will be encouraging our students to participate.  All it takes is 20 minutes of reading every night, silent reading at school and any other time they might like to pick up a book to read.  

We have three ways that students participate:

• Kinder to Year 2 students read books from the K-2 official booklist in their classrooms with their teachers and all students will be awarded a participation certificate for their efforts.
• Year 3 will be given a Reading Log and will be required to fill this in throughout the challenge and bring their completed list of books back to school by August 19th.  The link to the official booklist for Years 3-4 is here: Books by Title / Books by author
• Years 4-6 will be filling in their reading log online and will be given their login details over the next two weeks during their library time.  They will be shown how to fill in their reading log and it will be their responsibility to keep it updated. Year 4 can read from the official Year 3-4 Booklist or the Year 5&6 booklist.  Year 5 & 6 can only read from the Year 5 & 6 booklist.

If you would like to have a look at the site and read through the rules and booklists it is here.Certificates are awarded for every student who is successful in completing the challenge.  If a student has completed the challenge for four years then they will be awarded a Gold certificate and if students complete the challenge for 7 years they will receive a Platinum Certificate.

If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP YEARS 4 -6

As part of our Digital Citizenship lessons, we will be using an app called Flipgrid. 

We have the opportunity to form a 21st Century pen pal relationship using this app and connecting to a school in Chicago. We will be applying our learning about Digital Citizenship and we will also be learning to create and communicate to meet our Speaking & Listening English outcomes. We will be creating book reviews, persuasive texts, reading from books available in the library and of course getting to know our gridpals and what their culture is like.

 I am encouraging you to sit and view the various efforts by students from both schools with your child when the activity is up and running.  Here is a quick overview that students will be shown in their library lessons to prepare them for this learning. Alternate activities will be made for students who do not have permission to have their photos taken.

If you have any questions about this learning, please feel free to contact me.

Thank you to the mums who read last week’s newsletter and have already popped in to take a box of books home for covering.  There will be other books throughout the year and all help is greatly accepted and appreciated.

We would also like to acknowledge and thank two of our students who have never been asked to help and took it upon themselves to volunteer to empty our library bins for us.  These students are now in their second / third year of helping us out and we think this is so marvellous to have students who are so capable of showing initiative and thinking about others.  Thank you Emmerson and Calli we are so proud of you and know your parents must be too.