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Sunday 20 July 2014

Welcome back to term 3

Welcome back to Term 3.
I hope your holidays were good in this miserable weather. Please remember to return any over due library books or renew them. Our helpful squad of librarians are here to help anyone who needs a book or anything. If you would like to become a librarian please see Mr Daniels
Bronson Blackbourn

Tuesday 27 May 2014

Author Visit provides Food for Thought


On 21st of May, the Tokomairiro High School Library was visited by New Zealand author FiFi Colston. Fifi has had a varied career,but the over riding theme of her work has been creativity. From an early age she had a love of drawing and she followed this into a career in design, but over the years she has accepted many challenges working as a children's author, a poet, a television presenter, costume designer, wearable art maker . Currently her book on wearable art is  a finalist in the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards.
Fifi spoke to 25 students from Year 7 to 13 and her main message was  to work hard at what you love and take the opportunities life presents you .










Monday 5 May 2014


Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival
The school has five free tickets available to The Young Adult writers Panel. The panellists are Melinda Szymanik and Sandy McKay  who both published historical novels for young adults in 2013. A Winter’s Day in 1939 is Szymanik’s story of her Polish father’s time in Russian work camps during the Second World War. McKay has also written of the wartime experiences of a family member in When Our Jack Went to War, which takes the form of letters between two brothers, one at war and one at home. 
The writers will talk about their books, the experience of writing them and of the connection young readers today feel when reading stories of the past. 
Students interested in attending please see Mr Daniels or Miss Eames 

Thursday 30 January 2014

Ready for the New Year


Hi Everybody welcome back to the 2014 school year.

Hopefully you all had a good break

Library News

.Every student should now have access to the library catalogue on their own individual desk top..There should be an icon called Library Catalogue  You can use this to search the library collection and see what is in and out.
I hope to have set up the system so you can check your own borrowing and renew and  reserve books. This will be in place by the end of Term One.

What I read in the holidays:

I took the plunge and read Eleanor Catton's Booker Prize winning  novel. The Luminaries. It is a fascinating story set on the West Coast ni the 1860' s and is full of intrigue and mystery. The characters and atmosphere are beautifully evoked.
Eleanor Catton is  a young New Zealander, who has managed to win the most prestigious prize in the literary worlds
You can find out more here http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/Writers/Profiles/Catton,-Eleanor.htm