News from FHS Library …

Reading sessions in FHS Library commenced on Monday 21 Feb. By the end of this coming week, 28th Feb, all 7-10 classes will have had their initial session.  All students will be coming to the Library once a cycle with their English class to browse, borrow and read.

So far we have worked together on the following:

• Commencing the building of `Reading Profiles’ for all students.  This will help us develop reading capacity on two fronts: a) Students will be able to explain past reading habits, how they feel about reading, what their interests are, whether they like to read printed material or on a device – or both and what magazines they’d like to see in FHS Library; b) This information, in turn, gives us an insight into how we can improve reading material available in the library by ensuring it matches students interests and needs.
• After a generous donation from a parent to purchase Graphic Novel/Manga material, views of all 7-10 students have been sought as to how we could spend this money.  All students have been very proactive in making suggestions and this has been great to see.
• Students then participated in the `Library Lingo’ game.  We discussed a lot of terminology used in the library and these terms were explained.  After this, classes matched the corrected definition with the terms discussed.

Students were also shown, in a film clip, how to search the FHS Library Management tool, AccessIT, via Compass to see either if we have the book they are looking for or if they want to make suggestions for purchases it is great if students check AccessIT to make sure we don’t already the title they want to suggest.  Students have been made aware to make requests and suggestions for purchases through either their English teacher or myself and ensure these are noted on the Google document set up for this purpose.

It has been great to work with these classes and see the `buy in’ to the Library already.

Many students continue to enjoy the Library space at both recess and lunchtime for socialising, games, reading and online activities.

Eileen Cooney
7-10 Teacher Librarian