Makerspace

Robotics club has started for 2022 for interested students in year 5 and year 6.   Participating students will meet on Monday afternoons over the next semester to complete a range of robotic building and coding challenges.  It is wonderful to see so many enthusiastic students joining in with this activity.    

Library News

 

We have had some very creative students come along to the Library during lunch breaks to help us create our displays for Book Week.  Over the last week students have been working on colourful parrots and Dream Jars (inspired by the BFG) that will form part of our “Dreaming With Eyes Open” displays.

We have had many requests from students of all ages for new books with a dragon or unicorn theme.  We have been able to find a selection of books suitable for younger and older readers.  We were even able to find a series of graphic novels suitable for our younger readers and we have added these titles to the graphic novels section of the Library collection.

Book Week

 

 

During Book Week each year the Children’s Book Council of Australia award prizes to Australian authors in 6 different categories.  This year’s shortlisted books for the Young Readers Book of the Year and New Illustrator categories are shown below. 

Our picks from these two categories are “Dragon Skin” a story about a girl who finds a sick dragon hatchling and takes responsibility for nursing it back to health; and “Great White Shark” where the illustrator, Cindy Lane, has used a variety of artistic methods to create life like images of sharks and their ocean environment.

As part of our Book Week celebrations Meerkat Productions are returning to perform a live-action retelling of two of the books that have been nominated to win prizes during Book Week.  This year’s books are “Stellarphant” for lower school students and “The Detective’s Guide to Ocean Travel” for upper school students. 

Premier’s Reading Challenge

The Premier’s Reading Challenge for 2022 is still running.    To complete the challenge students in Prep – Year 4 need to read 20 books, and students in Year 5 and Year 6 need to read 15 books.  Reading record sheets are available from class teachers and from the Library.

Have a great week!

Mrs Wilkinson and Mrs H.