Derek Landy

On the school holidays I had the pleasure of attending an author talk by

Derek Landy.

Mr Landy travelled from Ireland to tell us about his very popular book series

Skulduggery Pleasant.

Mr Landy is a very animated and articulate speaker. He captivated and engaged the whole audience, explaining how the idea of the story of Skulduggery Pleasant, the savvy well dressed skeleton detective and the other main characters just popped into his mind one day on a journey to London, England. The first Skulduggery book was published in 2007. Mr Landy has just published the 9th and final book in the Skulduggery series, "The Dying of the Light", and is now working on a new completely different book series about a 16 year old girl, chased by evil across America. Mr Landy was asked if there will be a Skulduggery movie and he told us that he had had lengthy talks (3 years!) with Warner Brothers movie company which in the end fell through. Mr Landy was not too upset about this fact as he was worried the movie script deviated from the actual story. He is now in discussion with another movie company, where he feels he has more control over the finalised script.

Click on the link below to go to the Skulduggery Pleasant website:

http://www.skulduggerypleasant.co.uk/

BOOK WEEK

CONNECT TO READING - READING TO CONNECT

BOOK WEEK 2014

Our library has been a hive of activity this week with classes

getting into the spirit of this year's Book Week theme:

Connect to reading - Reading to connect

We have had buddy classes reading to younger students

some of their favourite stories, 

discussing how they connect with the story

Text to Self : Text to Text : Text to World

We have also been running a Guess Who?? competition with
students guessing which teacher is holding which book
 - the prize being a book :) 

The winners were:

Lianna Morris (PP), Keely Ralph (Yr1), Mitch Peters (Yr2/3B) 
Luka Butterworth (Yr2/3R), Tom Leo (Yr4),
Amy Byrne (Yr5) & Gisele Gould (Yr 6)

Congratulations!

Lunchtime in the library has been very busy as we have been
making Rainbow paper chains (linking our colourful circles
together connecting with each other) and completing a 
School Community colouring in of an Indian Elephant
(connecting with the upcoming Zest Fest).

 These will remain on display in the library.

To finish off our hectic week we ran a 

favourite book character fancy dress on Friday. 

With lots of fabulous costumes the lucky winners received
a $10 voucher to be spent at the news agency on a 
book or magazine of choice.

Here are some of the fantastic contestants - great work!

The Library Ladies

Term 3

Welcome back to Term 3 and we are already in to week 3!
We have so much going on this term it is difficult to know where to start.
The action filled Commonwealth Games, Book Week and the Zest Fest is just a small example of upcoming events.
Keep your eyes on this space to find out what's up next :)

BOOK FAIR

Due to the generosity of our School Community we were able to sell over $1700 worth of books at our recent Book Fair (15th & 16th May).
This resulted in our Library being able to add $500 worth of new and relevant books to our collection for the enjoyment of all students.

Thank you to all the families who supported our Book Fair and a special thank you to Joy Duncan for volunteering some time to help at the Fair.

Our next Book Fair will be held in Term 4.

TOO MANY ELEPHANTS at Kalbarri District High School!

Today is National Simultaneous Storytime and all the Primary students (Kindy - Year 7) and their teachers along with some parents and siblings listened to Mr Jeakings read:
"Too Many Elephants In This House" written by Ursula Dubosarsky and illustrated by Andrew Joyner.
It was a fantastic morning, enjoyed by all and we thank Mr Jeakings for his very engaging effort!

NAPLAN & Book Fair

Welcome to Week 3 of Term 2 - and what a busy week it's looking to be!

First up we have the yearly NAPLAN test on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday for the Year 3's, Year 5's, Year 7's and Year 9's.

Then we have the Scholastic Book Fair in the library on Thursday and Friday which is always a very popular event. There will be hundreds of books, stationary and posters on display and for sale.

And finally we have an assembly in the undercover area on Friday morning.

WE HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A FABULOUS WEEK & LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU IN THE LIBRARY!

TERM 1

It's the last week of Term 1 and soon school holidays will be upon us.
Come down to the library and borrow a book or two to read during the holidays, we have so many new books there will definitely be one that suits you!
There is a colourful Easter display and also one commemorating ANZAC Day with both fiction and non-fiction books for you to peruse.
Wishing you all a fun and safe holiday and we'll see you back here at the end of the month, ready for more exciting reading.
HAPPY EASTER !