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...
Does your child love to write stories? Do they dream of being an author? Over the upcoming school holidays, a camp for young writers will be held on the Coast. Write like an Author is an internationally acclaimed course that teaches young people the...
OSMO is an iPad game system where you can play games to learn Coding, Mathematics, English and Art. Come and join us at the library to experience OSMO during Wednesday lunchtimes. Osmo Tangram: Challenge yourself to solve the puzzles pieces into...
A LibGuide has been added to support the Year 9 Business Economics assignment on international trade: http://libguides.pacluth.qld.edu.au/home/trade . Ms Nell Keen, Head of Library and Mrs Lily Smith, Library Technician