Building Commences Today!

Yes! When we arrived at school today, we noticed that trucks had arrived and so had the builders. Exciting weeks ahead....

Premier's Reading Challenge - We Did It!

Yes, 2016 was our Biggest Challenge Ever in the Premier's Reading Challenge. 

Why? Because we were attempting the Challenge without a library! 

Just like a tightrope walker, performing without a net.

The Challenge finished last Friday and we had 257 students complete it. I just looked back on our school's performance in the past and found out that we have beaten our previous best by 7 students, even though we didn't have our own library this year!

How did we do it? Well, firstly we had so many generous people donate quality books to us after the fire, that we were able to accession these and get them out to classrooms really quickly. We had a huge band of parents covering books and Miss Mimi and Miss Nola helping me process books in the library workroom. 

We also had great support from Marrickville Library - we had bulk loans of books and also borrowed PRC books on our visits there. Parents went to their local libraries and signed their children up to be members, so they could borrow PRC books. 

Finally, and very importantly, our Kinder, Year 1 and Year 2 teachers made sure they read 30 PRC books to their classes, and the Year 3 - Year 6 teachers encouraged and assisted their students to enter the books they had read themselves online. 

I am one happy Teacher Librarian today. Thank you to everyone who helped us to win our Biggest Challenge Ever!

Our building program to commence soon!

After months of careful planning, we're pleased to announce that the building of our new school Library will commence soon, in fact, on August 29!

The good news is that we're not just replacing our Library. No, there will be other great changes too! 

The Library will be relocated to the ground floor, where the current Year 6 and Music/Drama rooms will be refurbished to become the new Library. This will make the Library more accessible to our whole school community and it will truly be the heart of our school.

At the same time, the old Library will be transformed into a contemporary learning space for our Year 6 classes. Here are some images of the way it is now, after the fire. I'll post updates as the rebuilding progresses.

So that building can finish before the end of the year, some students will need to be relocated for the duration of the building program. 

We've received a demountable classroom that has been positioned on the playground and Year 5 will move into it, since they have a least number of students. 

Year 6 will move into the present Year 5 classrooms and Music and Drama lessons will take place in the hall until the building has finished. The plans for these new learning spaces can be viewed in the office foyer.