Library News

 

Welcome to Library Links –February 2012

 

 

Year 8

Year 8 students have visited the library for an orientation to the resource centre, thanks to English staff who allowed us to use some of their time. Year 8’s also had a fiction promotion to familiarise them with our fiction collection and encourage them to read. All students are welcome to visit the library before school and lunch time so they can use the resources, read for leisure or play games - either computer or board games.

 

Technology

A new feature in the library is a large television to display slide shows of school activities. Currently images of Year 7 orientation day last year are proving quite an interesting display. This complements the digital photo frame which is now showing the Year 11 Presentation Assembly 2011, a celebration of the achievements of the current Year 12’s last year.

 

Laptops

The laptops will be more easily accessible soon as they will now be housed in the middle of the library, and students will be able to access them personally and use them at point of need. 

 

Study & Homework

Upper school students have begun the year really well…many have been coming to the library in their own time to work either individually or in groups. Hopefully these numbers will increase over time as the library is a great place for study purposes.

 

From week 5, Mrs Reece will be managing a homework club in the library on Mondays after school from 3.15 - 4.15. This will be a wonderful opportunity for students to have increased access to resources and teacher assistance. Teacher librarians are also always available to assist students in all Learning Areas. 

 

Reading

2012 is the National Year of Reading and although we always encourage reading for leisure and life long learning, this year our library will be supporting this terrific initiative.

 

Not only is literacy improved through reading, it also encourages more sophisticated language and thinking skills and provides an insight into other peoples’ points of view. All students are expected to have a novel to read during English classes and we have a great collection for them to choose from. Many students borrowed lots of books over the holidays and this was wonderful to see, as the holidays mean there is more time to read. Staff also read a lot over the holidays and we currently have a display showing their reading habits.

 

Displays

 

Surfboards

Art students from Ms Beardman’s 2011 Year 10 class collaborated and produced 5 brightly coloured sea themed foam surfboards. The library was lucky enough to display them, which provided a wonderful entry to the resource centre for the start of the year. We are hoping to be able to display them on a more permanent basis, as they fit in beautifully with the other art work around the library. 

 

Valentine’s Day

We had a display of romantic fiction for Valentine’s Day.  Beautiful sparkly hearts drew attention to a range of titles, such as The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks, and classics such as Gone with the Wind and Wuthering Heights.

 

Year of the Dragon

 Chinese New Year saw the Year of the Dragon begin so we have a fabulous display on this theme.

 

Teacher librarians Ms Piruk (library manager), Ms Kirkland and Ms Kagi and library officers Ms Nuttman, Mr Martin and Ms Heggs wish you all a successful year and we hope to see you in the library very soon

 

WAYRBA 2012

 

 The library is once again encouraging all students to read from the 2012 list of books nominated for the West Australian Young Readers Book Awards. A display will be  organized and a voting slips will be  placed in each book so that it will be easy to participate.

These awards are created from a list of books nominated the previous year by students at West Australian Schools.  This means that their popularity is guaranteed. No nomination by adults is accepted.  The same rules apply to the voting, the most popular wins through student votes.

Check out some of the picture books- this year has a great range - beautiful examples of how art and literature can complement each other.

The book titles / authors are listed below.

Younger Readers' List 2012
ABDEL-FATTAH, Randa	The Friendship Maker
BURCHETT, Jan & VOGLER, Sara	Wild Rescue: Polar Meltdown
D'ATH, Justin	Grizzlt Trap
GRIFFITHS, Andy	The 13-Story tree House
HARVEY, Jacqueline	Alice-Miranda at School
KHAN, Rukhsana	Jameela
LORD, Gabrielle	Conspiracey 365-January
MASS, Wendy	11 Birthdays
NANNESTAD, Katrina	Red Dirt Diary
PARK, Linda Sue	A Long Walk to Water
PICHON, Liz	The Brilliant World of Tom Gates
RODDA, Emily	The Golden Door
SEIZNICK, Brian	Wonderstruck
STEAD, Rebecca	When you reach me
STEPHENS, John	The Emerald Atlas
WALLIAMS, David	Billionaire Boy
WANG, Gabrielle	Meet Popy
WILSON, Jacqueline	The Long Lost whale

 

Picture Book List 2012
DO, Ahn	The Little Refugee
GILLESPE, Michelle & MARTINEZ, Sonia	Sam, Grace and the Shipwreck
JORGENSEN, Norman & Foley, James	The Last Viking
LESTER, Alison & TULLOCH, Coral	One Small Island
TAN, Shaun	Tales from Outer Suburbia
VAN ALLSBURG, Chris	Queen of the Falls
WILSON, Mark	Angel of Kokoda
YUMOTO, Kazumi	The Bear and the Wildcat

 

Older Readers' List 2012
CARTER, Ally	Only the Good Spy Young
D'ATH, Justin	Pheobe Nash-Girl Warrior
DESSEN, Sarah	Lock and Key
HOROWITZ, Anthony	Scorpia Rising
JAFFE, Michele	Rosebush
JINKS, Catherine	The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group
KATE, Lauren	The Innocents
LORE, Pittacus	I am Number Four
MUCHAMORE, Robert	Cherub: Shadow Wave
PLUSS, Nicola	Scout
Rennison, Louise	Withering Tights
RIORDAN, Rick	The Red Pyramid
SCHREIBER, Ellen	Once in a Full Moon
STIEFVATER, Maggie	Shiver
WATSON, Jessica	True Spirit
WILKINSON, Lili	A Pocketful of Eyes