Sadly no classes have yet earned Gold Stars – a Gold Star is awarded to the class when everyone remembers to bring their Library Bag.We have had quite a few students in each class who have forgotten to bring their bags! Tomorrow is Library for Kinder and below is a reminder of Library days for next week when each student needs to bring a Library Bag, and return the books borrowed the previous lesson: 

Tuesday – Year 6

Wednesday – Year 5

Thursday – Year 3

Friday – Year 2

Library day is the same day as Sport so that might help as a reminder! 

The Library bag is important for transporting the books to and from school because it helps protect them while in the school bag. We regularly have books which have to be disposed because they get wet. 

Premiers' Reading Challenge

All students in Years 3 - 6 will be registered, Year 2 will be participating as a grade, and we ask parents of students in Kinder and Year 1 to please notify us in writing if your children would like to take part. It is an easy challenge – students in Years 3 - 6 only need to read 20 books from the PRC list, and students in K, 1 and 2 are required to read 30. The booklists are found at:

https://products.schools.nsw.edu.au/prc/booklist/home.html

You can search our Library catalogue to see all the available books on the list – go to:  oliver.dow.catholic.edu.au/miev, and type ‘premier’ in the search box. You can then select the required level, either K - 2, 3 - 4 or 5 - 6. 

All those students who participated in the PRC in previous years are able to use the same User name and password to login this year, but you cannot login until registration is completed in early March. If you have lost your login details you need to let us know in the Library – we will not send out letters to last year’s participants with login details unless we are notified that they need a reminder. Registration can only be done through the school. Thank you. 

Scholastic Book Club

Just a reminder that no orders or money are able to be accepted at school. If you have any problems, please don’t hesitate to contact us in the Library before or after school. Orders  have now closed for this issue, as soon as the books arrive they will be distributed to the students. Thank you for your support. 

Technology

As mentioned in last week’s newsletter it is an expectation from the Catholic Education Office that every student in our school is to read with their parents the CEDoW Student Acceptable Use of Technology Agreement at the beginning of each year. This agreement outlines the expectations regarding appropriate and safe use of technology in the education of our students. All students except for Kinder should by now have received a copy of this agreement. Parents and students are asked to read and sign the agreement and return it to their teacher as soon as possible before they will be able to use the laptops or iPads at school.

Daily Reading

Our lives are very busy but it is important to try to read with your children for at least ten minutes a day.

 "Children are made readers on the laps of their parents."         

 Emilie Buchwald, Children's Author

Mrs Sue Bryant

Teacher-Librarian