Summer Reading

We have over 120 students and lots of our teachers partcipating in summer reading this year - fantastic.

Keep reading over the long break - it is the perfect time to relax and enjoy a good book.

Remember that everyone that posts a review to the OPAC will get a chocolate fish at the beginning of 2016 - students and teachers.

Look forward to hearing what books you would recommend to others next year MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Shopping!

It was great to go shopping in our local bookstore recently and purchase some new books.  It was an exta special trip as we took some of our Year 5 student librarians with us...great to have some student voice.  Thanks guys

Read Aloud

Our Term Two Read Aloud was a success this week.  Once a term the teachers head off to different classes and enjoy reading to them.  This week we had a "Readers Choice" and the teachers had so much fun sharing some of their favourite books.

Miss Evans reading to Room 11.

Miss Gledhill reading to Room 17.

Busy times!

We have had some busy times in the Redwood School Library recently.  We had a great visit from the author and illustrator Bob Kerr, an awesome show from Storylines about the book award finalists, all classes have seen the picture book finalists for the Book Awards and a group of book lovers read some of the junior novels.  We also took a group of kids to go see Dav Pilkey author of Captain Underpants speak recently.  Phew!!  All this and the library is under construction!!

A couple of pic's to keep you in the picture!!

Anzac Display

We have a lovely display in our library for Anzac Day and our focus on World War 1 this term.  Well done to the crochet club, who meet in the library once a week and enjoy the space while they crochet.

New Zealand Book Awards

We are very excited to be a Judge School for the Children's Choice in the New Zealand Book Awards.  We have opted to judge in both the Junior Fiction and Picture book sections.

We have a group of keen readers from Kereru Syndicate who are challenging themselves to read as many of the junior fiction novels as they can in the timeframe.  We will then meet as a group to put forward our finalists.  As students finish a novel they are completing a Discussion Points form to help.



The whole school will be reviewing the picture books and each class will vote on their semi finalist choice.

Happy New Year!

Welcome to 2015!!  The school year is up and running and it is good to see how busy the library has been.  I think the students missed us!!  Our summer reading programme was a great success, we were pleased with the reading results as well as the feedback from the students on the amount of reading they did over the summer.  The teachers were busy reading too, they are looking forward to sharing some of the books they read with their classes this year.

Keep an eye out for what Mrs Goodin is reading - when you stop by her desk you will see the most recent book she has read - I bet she makes some interesting choices.

Awesome Event in Wellington

Author of the Gruffalo Julia Donaldson In Wellington

Macmillan Publishers, Scholastic NZ, and The Children's Bookshop in Kilbirnie invite children and the young at heart to join Julia Donaldson, author of The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom and other beloved children's books, for a very special concert.
St Peter's on Willis, 211 Willis St, Te Aro, Wellington Thursday 12 February 2015 11:00am – 12:00pm.
Julia will speak, read and sing from her wide range of children's books. A special treat for Gruffalo fans everywhere!
All profits from the concert will go to the Graduate Support Programme at He Huarahi Tamariki - The School for Teenage Parents in Tawa.
Bookings essential at    http://www.eventfinder.co.nz/2015/julia-donaldson-in-wellington/wellington

We love buying books!

Jan, Miss Gargan and 5 Year 5 students went book buying at Paper Plus at North City Plaza today.  We had lots of fun, looked at lots and lots of books, and had some good discussions about what books would be good additions for our school library collection.

Well done everyone, can't wait to get some of these books on the shelf!

Crochet club

Everyone is enjoying having the school library back in use.  The crochet club worked away in Room 6 last term, but are much happier in the library as they create!

We are working on making a blanket for the library, and it seems the children have developed skills very quickly.

Thanks to Deryn and Sarah, our experts who give up their time each week to work with the students.

Read Aloud

It's a funny time for us in the Redwood School Library this term.  The Library has gone mobile and Jan is doing an awesome job meeting reserves requested and bringing books to the children in the classrooms.  Meanwhile Room 15 have made themselves at home while their classroom gets renovated.

However we did not let this stop us enjoying a Read Aloud today.  Teachers headed off with Animal books under their arms to different areas of the school to enjoy reading with children.  Loads of fun for everyone!

Mrs Perkins is busy keeping the children from Rooms 16 and 17 interested.

Mrs Wilson reads to some of our newest students in Room 10.

Miss Smith reading to the children in Room 20.

One of my favourite animal books is the story of Owen and Mzee.  I have read this book to preschools, children at all levels of the primary school and above.  I love this story - if you haven't read it look for it in our school library.

Let books open doors for you

Our 2014 Book Week Theme is

  Let Books Open Doors for You

We had an awesome week enjoying our visiting author Ruth Paul as well as the many other activities in the library.  

 It was great to have families join us and enjoy reading some of the "lucky dip" books during lunchtime.

The classrooms got into the theme and decorated doors, all sorts of cool ideas.  Thanks for your support teachers.

The library looks fantastic and we have books as the Key to History in the large Kiva.  Room 19 made the awesome shields.

We celebrated the cultural diversity of our school with our Round the World at Redwood School in the small kiva.  Thanks to all the families who shared items from their homes for us to experience and enjo. The interactive items were of great interest to all the children.

Harrison's Anzac Display

As part of his silver librarian award activities Harrison has created a wonderful display about Anzac Day.

Harrison chose to do a display on Anzac Day as he knows it is coming up, and he is interested in war stories.  Harrison created the display, and also chose all the books in the display.  He hopes you will enjoy reading them!  Well done Harrison

Theodore Seuss Geisel

At Redwood School we were pleased to celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday, he made such a contribution to children's literature, in such a fun way - and it was great to celebrate him as a school in our pajama's for this event.

The teachers all did a super job of supporting this event, and the children loved it.   We had some displays in the library and school foyer, and lots of art and literacy activities were completed through out the school.

Lots of buddy classes got together and enjoyed reading the wonderful stories of Dr. Seuss.

We love reading in the summer

Jan always has a book on her!

National Library Trip

We recently took a group of Year 5 and 6 Lunchtime librarians to the National Library as acknowledgement of the hard work and accomplishments in the library this year.

The National Library is an awesome place.

The students got a great tour, they were taken down into the basement where there are several million books stored for research purposes.  It was amazing for us to see, some of the books were very very old.  We hung out on the lifelines table and were also taken up to the Alexander Turnbull Library where we got to read some old books in the Reading Rooms.

It was a great trip, and a big thanks to the students who have given their time in the library this year, it was a pleasure to spend the afternoon with you.

Book Buying

We had a great day book buying with some awesome Year 5 students recently.  Thanks Georgia, Lulu, Megan, Danny and Hannah for your help on our book buying day.  Look for these great reads being added to our collection soon....

Having a Yarn in the Library!

On Tuesdays at lunch time there are a group of us who are enjoying "having a yarn in the library".  We have started a crochet club with the help of Deryn and are starting to get the basic stitch down pat.

We have all sorts of projects in mind....have you heard of Yarn Bombing?  Sounds fun to us!!

Happy Birthday Hairy Maclary.

Hairy Maclary turned 30 in the month of July... he certainly is a much loved character of our NZ literary world.

We celebrated at Redwood School today and had lots of fun.

We had some lovely Grandmothers come and read Hairy Maclary stories to the children in the junior school.  It was so much fun.

The library was a buzz of activity at lunchtime, with colouring and various other activities.

HAPPY 30TH BIRTHDAY HAIRY MACLARY.

Reading Aloud

We had a great Read Aloud session at Redwood School today - myths, legends and stories from around the world under their arms, teachers headed off straight after morning tea to different classrooms to share a story.

The children always love it, and the teachers do too!

Mrs Goodin reads to the children in Room 11.

Mrs Mass reads to the children in Room 20.