LIBRARY NEWS 

We have already had some enthusiastic readers return their Premier’s Reading Challenge forms. The students were very excited to return them completed to me and I was as excited to receive them.  

This is a really easy challenge for the students to compete in as they only have to read 20 books for Prep to Year 4 and 15 books for Year 5-6 and they have until Friday 27^th August to return their completed forms to either their classroom teacher or to the library. 

The requirement for Year 5 and 6 to read 15 books acknowledges that older students are likely to select longer, more complex books that may take them longer to read.

The following activities can be counted towards the challenge:

• reading independently
• shared reading
• being read to (Prep – Year 2 only).
• printed books
• e-books, virtual books and digital publications
• graphic novels and comic books
• audio and braille books
• newspapers, magazines and recipe books.

Each student has now been issued with a SCHOOL READER RECORD FORM and of course 100% participation would be fantastic! As an added incentive, the class with the highest participation rate will receive a small prize.

So good luck everyone – set yourselves a reading target and read, read, read!

Next term we will celebrate BOOK WEEK in late August with the announcement of the CBCA winners of BOOK OF THE YEAR and a book week dress-up parade. More details to come early next term.

We still have a fair few overdue books from the first half of the term. If your child has overdue books could you please help them look for them and return to the library as soon as possible.

Hope you have all had a wonderful first semester and look forward to seeing everyone back refreshed after an enjoyable holiday.

Happy Reading
Shannon Green