28 Mar 2014
Welcome to the Kandos Public School Library in 2014! This year promises to be very exciting with our resource centre boasting an array of fun and educational events and activities. To access our library catalogue and view our wonderful range of titles from home or anywhere in the world, parents and students can simply login to their KidSpace Portal. This portal is also a safe way for students to access the Internet from home.
Students are encouraged to borrow a book from the library each week. We have thousands of wonderful titles including the latest books as recommended by library and literature teams alike. Students should keep their books in a safe place at home and carry them in a library bag to and from school to keep them clean and protected. Encourage your child to borrow and return their book on their designated library day. There is also a non-fiction parent library, parents and guardians are welcome to borrow texts from this library at their leisure.
During the year we will be holding a Scholastic Book Fair and Central Book Fair. Parents, students and community members are welcome to peruse the fair and purchase books to raise money for our resource centre. We are also involved in Book Bonus, Book Club, Premier's Reading Challenge, National Simultaneous Storytime, World Read Aloud Day, National Family Reading Month, Advance Exclusive Copies of Texts, Remembrance Day Ceremony, Community Reading Day and Children's Book Week. We also have our own Book Bonus page, feel free to check it out, add comments and even make a donation if you wish. Even a donation of $2 adds up to stock our shelves full of the richest and newest books. Also, keep an eye on the newsletter for more information about these exciting events.
The Premier's Reading Challenge has already kicked off. Please make sure you have submitted your reading record either on paper to Mrs Cafe or online before August 2014. To enter books online students go to the PRC website, log on and enter their DEC username and internet password. They then go to ‘student reading records' to add books. Our school is a community of eager readers and the PRC is an opportunity for students to be a part of this community. The Challenge aims to encourage in students a love of reading for leisure and pleasure and to enable students to experience quality literature. It is not a competition but a challenge to each student to read, to read more and to read more widely. The reading lists for the Challenge are organised into year levels K-2, 3-4, 5-6 and 7-9. Each child has the opportunity to read at a higher level if they choose.
We look forward to another wonderful year in the library and just remember... Read! Read! Read!
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." Dr. Seuss