Last week, the library celebrated Kodomo no Hi, Japanese Children's Day. On Monday, Momo Taro (Peach Boy) was the featured story in story time, while on Tuesday students had the opportunity to make origami samurai helmets. Finally, students made...
In Geek Girls this week, students used light-emitting diodes, copper tape and coin-cell batteries to construct a circuit within a Mothers' Day card, allowing the card to light up when the circuit was closed. Miss Nell Keen, Teacher Librarian
On Open Day, the library highlighted the many ways we support literacy, research needs and technology in the school. Visitors had the opportunity to play with some of our STEM equipment such as Osmo and Innobits, as well as make a binary code...
Last week the geek girls undertook a group engineering challenge to design and make a working jump rope using only plastic bags, tape and scissors. The girls had fun coming up with new ideas and then trying out their creations. This week, the Geek...
Morris Gleitzman, best-selling and award-winning author of books such as the Once series, has been appointed as Australia’s latest Children’s Laureate. The role of the laureate is to champion and promote literacy, the love of reading, the role of...
Our first Geek Girls activity for the term involved learning how computers operate using binary code. We learnt how the alphabet translates into binary and then created a necklace of black and white beads, which spelled out our names in binary code.
The Children's Book Council of Australia recently released its short list of nominees for Book of the Year. In the lead up to Book Week in Term 3, we will be exploring a number of these titles with students in their library lessons. In Book Week,...
Students in Prep – Year 7 received their Book Club order forms this week. Orders must be placed at the library or completed online by next Friday 27 th April. Ms Nell Keen, Head of Library
All Year 4 and 5 girls received a brochure this week ( click here to view ) outlining the new program for Term 2. Geek Girls runs during Tuesday lunchtimes from 1.00pm – 1.30pm and introduces students to a range of STEM activities including coding,...
This week, parents were emailed if their child has overdue items at the library. Parents are asked to remind their children to return items to the library before the end of term. Items that were due in February or earlier and have not been returned...