Anzac day display

This week I had this gorgeous nearly ninety POW (who happens to be my father-in-law) come to speak to our senior children to tie in with this simple Anzac display. I used a huge NZ flag as a backdrop (which I had used for a previous display for the NZ Post Book Awards ) and had a display of Anzac books. Two of my Junior Librarians did the lettering ''Lest we Forget" and used doubled sided tape to attach to the flag.

On the whiteboard are black and white sketches that Ian did while a prisoner plus some photos and newspaper articles. He has had several chapters written about him in books so read from these plus showed the children some very personal and unique memorabilia from the war.

As you can imagine the children were captivated to hear of his exploits.

Cathy

Websites for children

Hi Everyone
Our principal has just given me internet access on my library computer. She is happy for me to have some websites that the children could access but they have to be listed. I have suggested Auckland City Library and the National Library website. I am interested to know from you of any websites you regularly use with your children. We are Year 1- 6 at our school.
Cathy

Jane's workspace at Victoria Avenue School

These are before and after photos of my office. The setup I had was not working very well for me, so I bought a new bookshelf. It has created heaps more space on the bench for book covering and repair. I now share my office with one of the teachers who takes small groups for maths and writing in the library each morning. This arrangement works well for both of us. My computer crashed in mid-March - I lost 4 days work!! I now backup every day - it has been a painful lesson for me!

Slide Show from Day One NOW LOADED

I'm back from the Cook Islands and have loaded the power point and the orientation exercise.
See right hand side of blog

Kia ora everyone,
Great to see you are all using the blog! Im off To Cook Islands for 2 weeks to support their schools and library development. I have remembered that I promised to put the slide show of Day 1 up on this blog but I've run out of time and have had technical difficulties so will not be able to do it just yet. My apologies

Jane at Kohia Terrace- Workspace

Doesn't this look amazingly tidy? I have just cleaned for the holiday and labelled the cupboard space but apart from that I decided that I am very happy with my workspace. The front desk works well when there is a class in -there is plenty of room for 2 students to work and I have the back bench to spread out on which of course I do, so usually more cluttered than this. Unfortunately we are soon having some alterations in the library to make the Teachers' Resources accessible from the library so I will lose a bit of this back space. Hopefully having the resources more under my control might make my job easier though.

I am very lucky to have an ex parent who still likes to come in once a week usually to do covering and she does a fantastic job and there is room for her to work comfortably.

Annette's Work space

Here are a couple of shots of my
"work space" at Birkdale North
Library. Our library is fairly small
at the moment, but we hope to
enlarge it in the very near future.

I work part-time and my hours are
divided between the school office and
the library - consequently I don't get
to spend a lot of time here - probably
that accounts for the fact it is so tidy!

Giving my junior librarians responsibility

Attached is a photo of a display by two of my Year 5 junior librarians. This was totally their work and what was lovely was the way they worked on it in the librray at lunchtime and had their friends helping and children asking what they were doing. As a result 3 other pairs have booked their display to follow so it has set a benchmark. I took a photo of the completed display and glued it into their log books with a positive comment.

Today I took 3 of my junior librarians with me to Jabberwocky on a buying trip . They were asked to choose one book each for the library but they ended up choosing more than 1!!!. When I process the books I will write 'This book was chosen by ................." They absolutely loved the afternoon and so did I looking at books.

Cathy

Kerri's little Library Space!

Hi all. Here are some pics of our little library that we currently have in an old storage room at the back of our hall! While it's a tad cramped we do our best. Since the course, I have been in the process of tidying up and 'redecorating' with new Pictures and books on display along with my first ever display (for Poetry Month), which I was quite proud of! Previously I haven't bothered with displays as the lack of space put me off, however I have become a bit more inventive and have really enjoyed cleaning up and making the most of the space we have.

The Library desk space is used by the children and teachers and as I am not in the Library full time I do not leave any of my work things there. The cupboard is my space for supplies etc and I also store items under my desk in the school office where I also work part time. Not ideal but we are building a new Library this year so we are hanging in there! Cheers, Kerri.

Not so tidy and tidy!

TE WHANAU O TUPURANGA AND CLOVER PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL

TE WHANAU O TUPURANGA AND CLOVER PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL

We have two schools on one campus, Te Whanau O Tupuranga and Clover Park Middle School. Te Whanau O Tupuranga is a Maori Bilingual Secondary school and Clover Park is a middle school which runs programmes for year 7 to year 10.

Our library is new and we are waiting for the signage to complete and display.

ISSUE DESK WORK PLACE

This is the work place at our library, an office for the librarian and a separate issue desk. We have computers including two touch screen computers and 4 to 5 students can work as a group.
We have library monitors who help the librarian tidy, return books to shelves and collect all overdue books from students and teachers from both schools.

The library is open during lunch time for students and teachers to read, conduct research or play educational board games. There are also two outdoor draughts and chess. We have Newspaper available in the library at all times.

These are some of the pictures from our library.