SENIOR SCHOOL LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES DEPARTMENT NEWS
Posted CGGS Newsletter 34 - 14 November 2008
Library And Textbook Return
Students will receive a notice of their current loans this week.
Following are the dates set for students to return them.
Week 6 (17 – 21 November) :
Years 11 and 12: Students may return books when they are in the school for tests
Week 7 (24 – 28 November) :
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Monday 24 November |
Wednesday 26 November |
Thursday 27 November |
Friday 28 November |
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Period 1 - 10B |
Period 1 - 9B |
Period 1 – 8B |
Period 1 – 7B |
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Period 2 – 10D |
Period 2 – 9D |
Period 2 – 8D |
Period 2 – 7D |
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Period 3 – 10G |
Period 3 – 9G |
Period 3 – 8G |
Period 3 – 7G |
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Period 4 – 10K |
Period 4 – 9K
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Period 4 – 8K
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Period 4 – 7K |
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Period 5 – 10R |
Period 5 – 9R |
Period 5 – 8R |
Period 5 – 7R |
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Period 6 – 10W |
Period 6 – 9W |
Period 6 – 8W |
Period 6 – 7W |
Judy Thompson
Head of Information Services Faculty
Chilrdren's Book Week
This week the Senior School Library has marked Children’s Book Week with displays and features on the Children’s Book Council Award prize winning books. Year 7 English classes received stickers and heard a talk by Necia Agnew, one of our Teacher Librarians, on the winning and notable books.
The winning book is Red Spikes by Margo Lanagan. It is a collection of short stories around the theme of birth and re-birth, conveying a message of the hope, messiness, joy and foreboding of life. Highly commended were The Red Shoe by Ursula Dubosarsky and Monster Blood Tattoo: Book 1 Foundling by DM Cornish. These books will be available for students to borrow from next week.
The theme for this year’s Book Week was READiscover but we have always found our students to be avid readers. Over the last year we have issued 17,775 loans to Senior School students and staff.
We also lend to parents and are developing a collection of parenting resources including books by Dr Michael Carr-Gregg such as Surviving adolescents: the must-have manual for all parents, Surviving Year 12: a sanity kit for students and their parents and The princess bitchface syndrome: surviving adolescent girls and many other titles. To borrow from the Library collection please contact us on t: 6202 6433.
The Library’s catalogue is available to parents using their daughter’s remote desktop login.
Coming events include quizzes and displays to mark National Numeracy and Literacy Week in September. The School’s theme is Measurement. National Reading Day is on 5 September, when classes will participate in activities around Podcasts of notable Australian books including The Red Shoe.
Judy Thompson
Head of Library and Information Services
Pictured below - Teacher Librarian Necia Agnew showing Year 7 student Erin-Louise Medway the winning book.
