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Storylines Author Visits

Last week we were very lucky to be visited by not just one fantastic author but two!  Authors James Russell and Anne Kayes are New Zealand children's authors who are currently touring Canterbury and West Coast schools to talk about their books and writing.  Some of the Year 3-5 students were lucky enough to come and hear James and Anne talk about their books and read a snippet of their stories to us.  Author visits are a great way for our children to meet the people behind the books and have the chance to ask all their questions about writing and being an author.  If your child would like to get their hands on James' or Anne's books they can come and see me in the library to reserve them.  

Scholastic Book Order Forms

Issue 2 of the Scholastic Book Order forms has been given to all children in the school.  If you would like to order anything from this please make sure that orders are completed by Wednesday 28th  March.  All purchases from the Scholastic Book Orders earn rewards points that we can use to buy new books and resources for the library and classrooms.  If you have missed out on getting an order form you can find it online at www.scholastic.co.nz. 

Hell Pizza Reading Challenge

We are participating in the HELL Pizza Reading Challenge again this year, which is being run in conjunction with the 2018 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. 

The HELL Reading Challenge is a highly successful programme that gets kids reading and enjoying the pleasures of stories with free pizza rewards. 

How the Reading Challenge works: Children are being given “pizza wheels”. Every time they finish a book a segment of the wheel needs to be signed by a teacher, parent or caregiver. When they have finished seven books, I will click the wheel and they can take their completed pizza wheel to any HELL Pizza store and redeem it for a free 333 Pizza. All HELL 333 kids’ pizzas pass the FSANZ Nutrient Profiling Scoring Standard 1.2.7. HELL kids' pizzas are very high in protein & calcium, high in fibre, low in sugar, and tasty! 

Here are the rules: 

• Each pizza wheel is good for one 333 Kids' Pizza from any HELL Pizza store nationwide 

• The wheel must be clicked by a librarian and stamped with the official school stamp 

• One pizza per visit per child 

• Wheels are non-transferable for money 

• Children must redeem their free pizza in person, and before Monday 3 December 2018

If you have any questions or concerns about this please either come and see me in the library or email me - zac.mccallum@halswell.school.nz. 

Girls Night at the Library 2018

You may remember the fantastic Girls Night at the Library that we had last year. We're doing it again! It's going to be on Wednesday 11 April from 7-8pm. This year we have NZ author Barbara Else coming to talk to us about her new book, Go Girl, which is packed with stories about amazing New Zealand women and girls. If you loved Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls you will love Go Girl. Please RSVP to me by Monday 9 April.  For all the details check out the poster at the bottom of this Library News page.

Library Book Club

Our library book club has now started for the year. Children in Year 4-8 can come along to the library at first lunch on Wednesday and chat about books with other children. It is an informal group with us talking about all sorts of books instead of reading the same book. I lead the group and share some of my book suggestions. To join up children just need to come along with a book they're reading and their lunch on Wednesday at 12pm.