From the Primary Library
Ginette Cameron-Gardner – Primary Teacher Librarian
The NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge 2018 closed for students on Friday 31 August 2018
All reading by students is to be entered by midnight on Friday 31 August.
Many students need to enter only one to three books to complete the Challenge.
Last week Willow Gelin (Year 6) was the 53rd student to complete the Challenge. On 18 August, Sofia Berkovic (Year 3) also completed.
Next in line were Year 5 students, Shai Berkovic, Lily Besser and Eliora Glass, swiftly followed by Leo Masnick (Year 4), Ashleigh Gold and Ariel Solomon (Year 5).
Congratulations to our many completers.
The Scholastic Book Fair was a great success last week in the Primary Library. Thank you to all parents and students who supported the Fair. It is a lot of work organising and running this fair but it is an opportunity for students to browse many books that they might not otherwise get to see. Scholastic supplies the books and stationery for us to sell on a commission basis. The Primary Library uses the commission on the sales to extend the collection and purchase more books, both fiction and non-fiction, for the Primary Library.
The students are active in making recommendations for books to be purchased and we are keen to have them as active participants in the selection process. We also purchase books to support the curriculum. The library collection is heavily used and has extremely healthy loan statistics. The Primary School has a strong reading culture.
Excitement has been building through the last weeks as the students eagerly anticipated the Scholastic Book Fair followed by the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book Week. The theme for this Book Week is that there is more treasure in books than all the gold in a pirate’s treasure chest. The culminating activity was the Book Parade this morning with so many wonderful costumes.
