Book Club 2015

Welcome to Book Club 2015!

Hopefully you have all had a great holiday. Book club is now every second Thursday lunch time in the library.

Book club opened well with some book suggestions such as

Wonder by A.J

It’s a book about a boy who has a disfigurement on his face and is sent to school by his parents and he doesn’t want to go. It’s told by 5 different people

The club then decided on changing the name we had a discussion and have decided to call it 

The Literacy Games District 238 .

We now have made it so you have 2 weeks to find an article or any passage of writing you like and get it photocopied and bring it along to discuss.There will be a prize for the best article.

We are also making a school wide competition to see who can make the best logo- a prize will also be given for this

I hope to see a lot of new faces at book club this year, so see you all there.

Bronson Blackbourn   

2015 starts here!

Welcome back all students!  A special welcome to our new Year 7 students
Come in and check out the Library.
The Library is open at Lunchtime, 12.40 - 1.15pm Monday to Friday
It will be open at Interval  Week 2 when new Librarians are signed up!
You can start borrowing books Straight Away!

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

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 .

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 

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

Reading and Writing Week

 Reading and Writing Week is coming. This year we have  a special focus on Writing. A chance to be creative and take part in some great contests and activities. Writing Competitions, Quizzes, special events.Reading and Writing Week Term 4 Week Two .21 Oct -25^th October  

We have a special focus on writing so check out: 

 Writing Competition If you’re a keen creative writer get writing for the upcoming Creative Writing competition . Open to all students, it will be judged in these categories: Year 7 – 8, Year  9 – 10, Year 11 – 13 . All  work is eligible poetry, song lyrics, essays,  short stories, work done in class and   even personal writing.  Prizes will be the usual great selection:  Book tokens, Movie Tickets  Chocolate, and other surprises. Get writing now ! All work should be handed in  to Mr Daniels. Competition Closes end of Reading week( 21 – 25 October  2013)

21/10/2013 -25/10/2013

What’s happening in Reading and Writing Week?

1 – Giant Trivia Quiz. Yr 10 - 13.

50 “Fiendishly” hard questions.  Monday to Friday. Collect the questions from Mr Daniels on Monday. Work as individuals, or teams.

2  - “The Giant Story”. Add a line or a paragraph to the “Big Story” .  All week

3 - Writing Competition

Open to everyone, Year 7 – 8, Year 9 – 10, Year 11 – 13.

1^st  2^nd and 3rd prizes at each level.

4- Costume Competition

Thursday 24/10/2013

Come as your Favourite Character from a book. Open to staff and students! Prizes!

5 -  Lunchtime  

Quizzes/activities all week