Acceptable Use and Cyber Safety Agreement

Acceptable Use and Cyber Safety Agreement for Students have been sent electronically via PAM for all parents to discuss with their children before signing and submitting. A student version of this agreement has also been printed for the Year 3-6 students to discuss further during class time in the LRC and with their classroom teachers. These students are encouraged to sign this agreement in their class with specific statements that will be referred to each week and the Agreement will be revisited each term. Please contact us if you need any further information around this updated Cyber Safety Agreement.

New shelving

At the end of last year, the PSA agreed to contribute towards the purchasing of new Book Boxes to house our Picture Fiction Books. This new look will give students greater access to their favourite titles and ease of finding books and re-shelving them too! We would like to extend our gratitude to all St Joseph’s families who contributed to fundraising last year and could make this purchase for our Library.

New Books

I have become a little guilty of finding book treasures in my school holidays and purchasing them for our library. I then become so excited when I promote them to our students, that I forget that we need time to add these titles to our Library Computer System and then we need to cover these books before we can loan them out with confidence. If you think you could spare some time to cover some of these books, either on-site, or at home, then please email me with your interest;

elloyd@sjwarrnambool.catholic.edu.au

The students would be most grateful to get their hands on these great new books as soon as possible!

New Staff

As you will be aware, our Library leader for many years, Mrs Lyn Hyland retired last year. However, she has already returned to volunteer in the LRC! We welcome Mr George El-Hage into the Junior LRC classes this year. We remind all the students in Foundation up to Year 2 that they can borrow 4 books at a time and they can keep these for 2 weeks before renewing them. Students in Year 3- 6 can borrow up to 6 books at one time and they can also keep these for up to 2 weeks.

Library Monitors (Year 6)

We will be seeking responsible, mature and great leaders in literature to fulfil the role of ‘Library Monitor’ this year. A role description will come to classrooms this week, so we encourage all Year 6 students to consider this great opportunity within our school.

Year 5 students will be given an opporunity to be a library monitor in Term 4.