Blog on Track!

In my last blog I was confused and really struggling. This entry however, I have decided to talk about things that I know about and one of those is the library at my school. I don’t wish to name the school that I work for, even though they have their own internet and public profile, I don’t feel it is appropriate for me to name them.

Anyway I can still talk about my work in the context of the events that we run and how we manage to do certain library tasks. So Blog on Track is going to talk about the writer’s festival that we celebrated just last week.

As a Library (Resource Centre) with a staff of 2 full-timers, 1 part-timer and a Head of Library for over 1750 students from years Prep to 12 who share the same library, there are times we find it a challenge to celebrate events.  However we find it an integral part of working in a library in this modern age to promote and encourage students learning, reading and writing as best we can.

This year the school celebrated the 2014 Writer’s Festival week during 4^th to the 8^th August and there was no exception in collaborating with the English Department to devise the following activities, enabling and encouraging students to get involved and enjoy the celebration.

GUEST SPEAKERS:

The Nelson Twins - one of the most unique stand-up comedy acts in the world :
http://www.nelsontwins.com.au/

Anne E Stewart – A Dream time Storyteller :  
http://anneestewart.com.au/

David Vincent (former child soldier) :
http://davidnyuolvincent.com/

Father Bob Maguire :
http://fatherbobmaguire.com/

ACTIVITIES:

• Junior and Senior Spelling Bee – Spelling competition 
• On the Box – A game where students are encouraged to stand on a box in front of a crowed and speak about anything and everything, but the catch is they must NOT say the words “Um…” or “Ah…” or they are out of the game! 
• Teacher Student Debate 
• Book Hurling Contest – This popular game allows students to use different sized, old and dust covered books to throw across the oval in a competition to see who can throw the books further.  The size of the book gains them points 100 for large over 100 pages and 50 for under 100 pages.  (Please note: no books were harmed in the contest and all books were outdated and weeded from our collection beforehand).
  
  
  Our school successfully ran these multiple guest speaker workshops and activity events throughout the whole week appealing to all year levels and staff members as best we could.