Library Week has started! Yahoooooooo!!!!!!

May the force of wonderful reading be with you! 

                                        

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Time to celebrate!

Thanks to our 2 teams of  library monitors ‘The Bookworms’  and ’The Speedy Readers’!  We have seen an increase in library visitors during lunchtimes and our fantastic boys team seems to bring more boys into the library!  It is great to see so many children enjoying the wonderful books, board games and puzzles our library has to offer. 

A big thumbs up to all the library monitors for achieving their Librarian Certificate after ticking all the boxes and completing their first year training!  Well done Patrick, Chance, Joel, Brooke and Linda for being that friendly person behind the desk, for knowing how and where to shelve library books correctly and for learning how to use our library computer program to issue, return, reserve and renew books.  

Also a big thank you to our library leader Ojaswai who has strengthened her leadership skills this year.  All the library monitors agreed during their last meeting that like a real leader Ojaswai can keep her head cool at all times and that she is the person we can always count on and talk to when we have ideas or are worried about something!  She even has taken over the role of school librarian on days when Mrs. Van Nijlen was away. 

Well done to all these sensational ACHIEVERs, you make our school and our library proud!

Also a quick note to parents to say that it was a lot of fun to see some of you visit the library during lunchtime when we had our Cross Country Day.  So mums and dads please feel free to drop in whenever you are early to drop off or pick up your children and remember to bring those little brothers and sisters too for a look around in our fantastic library! 

Term 3’s Library week will run from 16-20 August so get ready for a special week of celebrating libraries and reading!  More info to come at the start of next term.

Our Library team meeting!

Every term we have a library team meeting where we can discuss our ideas, things we have enjoyed, things we have not enjoyed so much.  We really love talking about our jobs and wanted to share this with the world so these are our last term's meeting minutes:

• How do you feel things are going in your group?

Good things: Everyone loves interacting with all the children, we are having fun and getting along really well. We help each other and meet other people. We all think we are a great team!

Not so good things: Nobody in our group could think of any not so good things so that’s great!

• We have done a great job this term and have spent lots of time learning about our jobs. Time for some action next term! Some ideas:

 Running a second hand book stall

 Story times in the library

 Regular assembly items to share with the whole school

 Quizzes/competitions (any ideas?)

 Arts/crafts (origami, paper weaving or any other ideas?)

NOTES:

We all loved the second hand books stall idea and think that with the proceeds the monitors could buy new lunchtime activities for the library!

Joel is very keen to organize a crafts table in the library during lunchtimes.

Patrick thought that as prizes in competitions and quizzes we could give out extra book issues

to winners which is a great idea.

All of us think we would love to share items at assemblies regularly, we have to think about what are the things we want to share with everyone.

• Is there anything you haven’t learnt about your job yet and would like to learn urgently?

Linda and Patrick would like to learn more about issuing books and shelving which is something we will work on with them next term.

• Would you still like to be a library monitor next term? Tick the answer that is right for you.

 Yes please! I love it, I am born to be a librarian!

 No thank you, unfortunately I didn’t enjoy it very much

Thank goodness everyone ticked the ‘YES!’ box  so we are looking forward to an exciting new term!

At the end of our meeting everyone was given a free book as a reward for your great work.

Mrs. Van Nijlen.

Introducing the library monitors for 2010!

At the start of Term 1 all the year 5 and 6 students had the opportunity to become a library monitor. We had lots of applications so there were some hard choices to make! It was really exciting to see so many boys applying! We had have put together a team of girls and a team of boys so it's not all girl power! 
Congratulations to Ojaswai, Brooke and Linda who are calling themselves 'The Speedy Readers'!
Congratulations to Patrick, Chance and Joel!  They have chosen a name for their team:  'The Bookworms'!

The first 2 terms we spend lots of time learning about our job, what we do and how we do it. For the rest of the year we will get better and better at what we do so we could become a Library Leader next year...

We can't wait!