Marrickville Library Visits Begin

Last week, our classes began their visits to Marrickville Library. Class teachers will take their classes to the library every fortnight this term. Students will have the opportunity to read or search for resources they need, for example, non fiction books to support their learning. We have a library borrowing card and teachers are able to borrow any extra books they may need.

Also, the Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2 classes will attend a session of Storytime, conducted by the Children's Librarian, Peter. A big thanks from everyone at St Brigid's to the staff at Marrickville Library!

CC image by Phillip Martin

New Home Readers and Guided Readers

We've begun the huge task of unpacking, accessioning and distributing home reading books and guided reading books, for our students from Kindergarten to Year 6. Thanks again to Miss Mimi and Miss Nola for assisting me with their fast and efficient work.

Year 6 to the Rescue!

Our first big delivery of new books arrived on Tuesday. It was very exciting, as the boxes contained our new Home Readers and Guided Readers.  There were 60 boxes in total, and we had to convey them upstairs to the Library Workroom. What a huge job! Luckily, Year 6 students and teachers saved the day. 

They organised themselves into a human chain, snaking all the way from the delivery truck on the playground, up two flights of stairs and into the workroom. 

It was a tremendous example of teamwork, as each box was passed carefully from the hands of one student to the next. The job was finished in no time at all! Michael, the delivery driver, said he had never seen such cooperation from students before. Good on you, Year 6!

New books and a new computer

Today we received books delivered by the Rotary Club of Holroyd courtesy of Granville Public School. Particularly needed were packs of Guided Readers, which were eagerly borrowed by class teachers. Thank you to everyone concerned!

We also received a new computer, to replace one that was burnt in the fire. We use this computer to accession new books and we already have more than 200 new books accessioned.

Another wonderful surprise arrived from Better Read Than Dead bookstore in Newtown. 

They sent us several boxes of high quality picture books, novels and non fiction books. Fantastic! Here's a photo of a few of them. I had to stop myself from sitting down to read them straight away.

 

Our Good News Story

This week we were visited by Jade Wittman, from the Catholic Education Office, Sydney. Jade was there to find out how we were managing after our library fire. She arrived just as we were receiving a bulk loan delivery of books from Marrickville Library.

Click on the image below to read her good news story in About Catholic Schools magazine.

More and more donations just keep on arriving!

We're being overwhelmed by the generosity of so many people and companies, in response to our library fire. 

We're receiving donations of new and used books from other schools. The Teacher Librarian at the Newington College's Wyvern House is even organising a book drive within her school community to support us.

Publishers and book distributors have donated new books, book marks and posters. Here are some of our generous benefactors:

Delivery from Marrickville Library

Today was a happy day at St Brigid's. Our delivery of books for library borrowing arrived and the children were very excited!

Each classroom will receive a crate of books on loan from Marrickville Library. Not only did they allow us to borrow so many books, but they also delivered them for us too. Our students were keen to help with the delivery too. 

Library borrowing for all classes will begin next week. There were lots of smiles around St Brigid's today!