Tokomairiro High School Library
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Wednesday 14 October 2015
Book Club Report 2015
The year kicked off to a great start for the book club with
a great number of regular attendees both student and staff.
Unfortunately due to other commitments and time issues we haven’t had as many meetings as we’ve hoped for, but they still continue weekly in the school library. When the club gets together we have a catch up, a wee something to eat and talk about the latest books we are reading and suggest any books that anyone might like to read, those suggestions go onto the school library blog (http://tokolibrary.blogspot.co.nz/) which I encourage students and parents to read.
The book club will continue to run next year and I hope to see new and old faces at the book club meeting in the starting of the school year, but for now have a great holiday and do take advantage of the library reading programme, RED Books.
Unfortunately due to other commitments and time issues we haven’t had as many meetings as we’ve hoped for, but they still continue weekly in the school library. When the club gets together we have a catch up, a wee something to eat and talk about the latest books we are reading and suggest any books that anyone might like to read, those suggestions go onto the school library blog (http://tokolibrary.blogspot.co.nz/) which I encourage students and parents to read.
The book club will continue to run next year and I hope to see new and old faces at the book club meeting in the starting of the school year, but for now have a great holiday and do take advantage of the library reading programme, RED Books.
Book club President,
Bronson Blackbourn
Bronson Blackbourn
Wednesday 25 February 2015
Book Club 2015
Welcome to Book Club 2015!
Hopefully you have all had a great holiday.
Book club is now every second Thursday lunch time in the library.
Book club opened well with some book
suggestions such as
Wonder
by A.J
It’s
a book about a boy who has a disfigurement on his face and is sent to school by
his parents and he doesn’t want to go. It’s told by 5 different people
The club then decided on changing the name
we had a discussion and have decided to call it
The Literacy Games District 238 .
We now have made it so you have 2 weeks to
find an article or any passage of writing you like and get it photocopied and
bring it along to discuss.There will be a prize for the best article.
We are also making a school wide
competition to see who can make the best logo- a prize will also be given for
this
I hope to see a lot of new faces at book
club this year, so see you all there.
Bronson
Blackbourn
Wednesday 28 January 2015
2015 starts here!
Welcome back all students! A special welcome to our new Year 7 students
Come in and check out the Library.
The Library is open at Lunchtime, 12.40 - 1.15pm Monday to Friday
It will be open at Interval Week 2 when new Librarians are signed up!
You can start borrowing books Straight Away!
Come in and check out the Library.
The Library is open at Lunchtime, 12.40 - 1.15pm Monday to Friday
It will be open at Interval Week 2 when new Librarians are signed up!
You can start borrowing books Straight Away!
Sunday 20 July 2014
Welcome back to term 3
Welcome back to Term 3.
I hope your holidays were good in this miserable weather. Please remember to return any over due library books or renew them. Our helpful squad of librarians are here to help anyone who needs a book or anything. If you would like to become a librarian please see Mr Daniels
Bronson Blackbourn
I hope your holidays were good in this miserable weather. Please remember to return any over due library books or renew them. Our helpful squad of librarians are here to help anyone who needs a book or anything. If you would like to become a librarian please see Mr Daniels
Bronson Blackbourn
Tuesday 27 May 2014
Author Visit provides Food for Thought
On 21st of May, the Tokomairiro High School Library was visited by New Zealand author FiFi Colston. Fifi has had a varied career,but the over riding theme of her work has been creativity. From an early age she had a love of drawing and she followed this into a career in design, but over the years she has accepted many challenges working as a children's author, a poet, a television presenter, costume designer, wearable art maker . Currently her book on wearable art is a finalist in the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards.
Fifi spoke to 25 students from Year 7 to 13 and her main message was to work hard at what you love and take the opportunities life presents you .
Monday 5 May 2014
Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival
The school has five free tickets available to The Young
Adult writers Panel. The panellists are Melinda Szymanik
and Sandy McKay who both published
historical novels for young adults in 2013. A
Winter’s Day in 1939 is Szymanik’s story of her Polish
father’s time in Russian work camps during the Second World War. McKay has
also written of the wartime experiences of a family member in When
Our Jack Went to War, which takes the form of letters between two
brothers, one at war and one at home.
The writers will talk about their books, the experience of writing them and of the connection young readers today feel when reading stories of the past.
The writers will talk about their books, the experience of writing them and of the connection young readers today feel when reading stories of the past.
Students interested in attending please see Mr Daniels
or Miss Eames
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