2012 Olympics

Links are provided for children to learn more about the Olympics and our Australian athletes. Australia Post have developed a site which allows children and their families access to information and fun activities related to the Olympics. All the Primary children have used these sites during Library time. There is also a link directly to the Australian Olympic Teams which shows athletes, sports and schedules for the 2012 Olympic events just to name a few. Enjoy exploring and learning more about our athletes and the 2012 London Olympics.

World Book Online

World Book online is available to every family at home. Click on the link provided. The username is Padstowpk and the password is library. This is a valuable site for all the children and their families to use.

Papua New Guinea Book Drive

Each year we send books to Papua New Guinea that we are no longer using. These books are too good to throw away and a group by the name of HOPE collect these books from schools to donate to under resourced libraries in PNG schools. Thanks to all of those parents who donated books for Papua New Guinea this year they totalled around 500 which was great. Overall we donated 1,871 books. Donations are always welcome as I put them aside until next years drive.

Premier's Reading Challenge 2011

Congratulations to the 36 children who completed this years Premier's Reading Challenge. The certificates each child receives is an acknowledgement of the reading that they do over the year. Reading is such an important part of education as children learn so much but at the same time can relax and enjoy the activity. Listed below are this years participants. Special mention must go to Chelsea Marriott on her 'Gold Award' for her fourth successful year of participation.

Andrew Alexakis, Perry Alexakis, Christina Argiropoulos, Aven Au, Anthony Bao, Anthea Chau, Grace Chen, Tina Dai, Wendy Dai, Jason Dong, Raymond Du, Andrew Eason-Pikot, Catherine Guan, Minh Chau Ha, Natasha Harvey, Raymond He, Dylan Huang, Maria Kamel, Natasha Lawson, Michael Li, Sally Lindberg, Lori Lindsay, Daniel Luo, Vanessa Luong, Andrew Macdonald, Chelsea Marriott, Angela Mataio, Tam Nguyen, Raymond Pham, Vuong Pham, Layla Salz, Noah Vando, Annabelle Vrckoski, Kevin Wang, Neil Yin, Jadon Yip

Bookfeast 2011

Felicity Pulman author of Ghost Boy with Adam, Tina, Abbey and Sharon.

Chris Morphew author of the Zac Power Series
with Abbey, Sharon, Tina and Adam.

Each year four children from Year 5 are chosen to attend a Boofeast. This year Abbey Leedow, Sharon Li, Tina Dai and Adam Panovski were the lucky four. The venue was Burwood RSL. The children were able to meet Australian authors and illustrators. They talked to a variety of these people and were able to obtain autographs and have photos taken. Lunch was provided and as always was one of the many highlights of the day.

Library Recognition Ceremony

On Wednesday, 9th November 2011, the new library was officially opened. An Aboriginal Smoking Ceremony, performed by Uncle Steve Williams, was a fabulous way to commence the day. This was certainly something that all the children and staff will remember. Mr Daryl Melham MP for Banks officially opened the new library and along with Mrs Mollica and our two School Captains Brock Russo and Emma Gilbert the plaque was unveiled.

A Name for the Library Bear

Thanks to all those children who wrote in suggestions for names for the library bear. After careful thinking the name Coco was chosen. Whatever he is called he is certainly a popular addition to the library.