By Ms Taylor Quinn, Teacher Librarian

We hope you have been enjoying the term so far! In the library we have been having a lot of fun at lunch times with students participating in activities and making good use of their free time during breaks. It is wonderful to see students’ smiling faces as they enjoy spending time with their friends.

Our collection of dashboards is growing, with more teachers asking for a collection of resources to be available on the library website! We hope students will take advantage of these subject specific selections of information to help them with their upcoming assignments.

Book Week is approaching swiftly and will run from the 19 August 2023 to the 25 August 2023 with the theme of “Read, Grow, Inspire”. Prepare your costume and watch this space for more Book Week information. Activities will run throughout the week so we can celebrate books, foreground talented Australian authors, and highlight the importance and joy of reading as a College community.

Calling all readers from Years 7, 8 and 9.

It’s nearly that time again – time for the 2023 READER’S CHALLENGE!

For those of you who don’t know - a reader’s challenge is a bit like a trivia quiz or a Kahoot – you become part of a team of 4 students and you read 4 books. Then, we gather with teams from other schools and answer questions about the book to see which team can remember the most.

And what’s really cool is that not only are we the current CHAMPIONS from last year, this year we get to host the competition here at Assumption College.

If you’re not a fast reader, that’s totally okay – the competition isn’t until Week 2 Term 4 which gives you 10 whole weeks to read the books. You are welcome to form a team with friends, or we can put you in a team if you’d prefer.

Reader’s challenge is always lots of fun, and more than a little competitive as you will also be competing against TEACHER TEAMS!!

The Reader’s Challenge is coming up on 12 October 2023. There is still time to join the Battle of the Brains and compete against other schools in a friendly game of trivia about the selected books! The winning team will have bragging rights and claim the trophy for their school so if you like reading and/or trivia come and sign up.

Come and visit the library for more details.

We are also currently  looking into our  teacher reference collection, renewing and updating resources and  the library will be closed in Week 10 to do our yearly stocktake.

As always if you have any questions or don’t know where to go, come to the library!