NEW BADGES FOR OUR LIBRARY WARRIORS

Anyone who follows this space knows how important our Library Warriors are to keeping our Library functioning. Like our Mini Vinnies and WEN students, having a badge symbolises that they belong to a group of students who perform an important role within our school, and these are worn with great pride.

So when I came across ‘Book Dragon’ badges, I got excited! And on introducing them to our Warriors at the start of this term, they got VERY excited too!

As Library Warrior tasks only occur on a Friday, we have decided that the badges are put on in the morning and worn until the end of Lunch 2 when they are returned. As there are six different designs, our students liked the idea that they can choose a different design each week.

So far, our Warriors have been brilliant at returning them with every badge being returned for the last two weeks!

PREMIER’S READING CHALLENGE (PRC) UPDATE

This fortnight, Year 6 has now completed the challenge – well done to all our Year 6 students!

Champions for this fortnight are:

Year 3 – Isla, Aidan, Fox, Arie, Jack, Ruby

Year 4 – Travis A., Ryan, Emily, Sophia, Matilda

Year 6 – Kai, Owen

Congratulations to the above students!

***Stay tuned to see who completes the Challenge next!***

CBCA Shortlist Books

This newsletter, we are highlighting the Picture Books and Eve Pownall Award books (Information texts) that made the shortlist that we have purchased for our Library. They will be available for student borrowing after Book Week in Week 6.

Shortlisted Picture Books:

• Afloat by Freya Blackwood, text by Kirli Saunders (Little Hare)
• The Garden of Broken Things by Freya Blackwood (HarperCollins AU)
• A Leaf Called Greaf by Kelly Canby (Fremantle Press)
• These Long-Loved Things by Ronojoy Ghosh, text by Josh Pyke (Scholastic Australia)
• The Truck Cat by Danny Snell, text by Deborah Frenkel (Bright Light)
• We Live in a Bus by Dave Petzold (Thames & Hudson Australia)

Shortlisted Eve Pownall (Information) Books:

• Always Was, Always Will Be by Aunty Fay Muir & Sue Lawson (Magabala Books)
• Design & Building on Country by Alison Page & Paul Memmott, illustrated by Blak Douglas (Thames & Hudson Australia)
• Flora: Australia’s Most Curious Plants by Tania McCartney (NLA Publishing)
• I am a Magpie, I am a Currawong by Bridget Farmer (Black Cockatoo Books)
• Making the Shrine: Stories From Victoria’s War Memorial by Laura J Carroll (The Crossley Press)
• South With the Seabirds by Jess McGeachin (A&U Books for Children and Young Adults)

SCHOLASTIC BOOK CLUB ISSUE 5 & 6

Book Club Issue 5 has now closed and families with orders will be notified when the orders arrive.

Book Club Issue 6 catalogues will be sent home in the next week.

How to order:

* jump online to order: https://bookclubs.scholastic.com.au/

* if your order is a gift, you can nominate it online as ‘gift’.

* once the orders arrive, all parents are given a courtesy call.

PLEASE NOTE: all orders are done online, the school does not collect cash or cheques.

Happy reading everyone!

Sue Murray
Library Coordinator