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A message from Doncaster 11/10/07
A message from us to Doncaster and other Book clubs 21/11/07

Next event.. 20 August ...

Delany Book of the Year will be announced
Read the nominations and vote!
Wait for the competitions -
The L_TAG will announce them in July
More information on the library blog

DELANY READS! WEEK is here!
So is this the end? Well not quite.
Two weeks ago staff spent time thinking about our information
services and resources. On Tuesday the 'Future Directions 2009'
process starts, and their ideas have been included.
Next year, lets have some student ideas included!
FRIDAY
Last day!

We worked really hard to count up the books in recess.
There were... drum roll..... 321 books!
Mr G got closest, so we gave him a lollipop!
The prize was jointly won by Raymond and Nayem!
Congratulations boys!
How many words can a Delany student make out of 'Delany rocks!'? We gave everyone a prize for because everyone had large totals.
However Daniel got the most with 193 words! congratulations everyone!
THURSDAY
THANK YOU TO
The town librarians
who Visited us today
The youth librarians from Parramatta, Merrylands, and Auburn libraries
each sent librarians to talk briefly to the whole school asssembly, and
to students in the library at Recess.
Meantime, the competition entries are rolling in!
WEDNESDAY
Parent interviews
Library staff are cataloguing!
Come to the Library on Friday
to have first chance to borrow.
TUESDAY
Competitions start
and
Staff buy for students
Come to the Library on Friday
to have first chance to borrow.

MONDAY
Book buying trip to Borders
Come to the Library on Friday
to have first chance to borrow.

Poster link here: 'DELANY READS! WEEK' - 19-23 MAY 2008
'DELANY READS! WEEK' - 19-23 MAY 2008
This year we are all involved.
MONDAY: The Book team are off to Borders with your list of requests to purchase (mostly) for the Fiction collection.
TUESDAY: At Recess, come to the library for the competitions launch.
At Lunch, the Staff are buying for the Non Fiction collection.
WEDNESDAY: While you come to school for parent interviews,
the library staff will be cataloguing all those books from Monday!
THURSDAY: This is the BIG day!
Daniel, who is doing his gold award, has arranged for Merrylands,
Parramatta and Auburn libraries to send 2 librarians to tell you what
they have for you. Hear them briefly at assembly, and come to the
library for more at Recess. Each library is very keen to hear what you would like too.
FRIDAY: At recess, the competition winners will be announced
in the library, and most of the books purchased on Monday will be released. and finally...
at lunchtime, Mr Clarke will hold a manga/anime/graphic novel
workshop.
Just what do those terms mean?
How do you tell a 'good' one?
And how come they are so popular now?

TAG_L announces that the BOOK CLUB meets Wednesdays, Lunch 1
and 2, in the library. Bring a book (read) and your lunch.

OUR INTERNATIONAL BOOK CLUB PROJECT IS UP AND RUNNING!
So far:
* Our wiki is called The Page Turners and students from Danum (UK)
Newtown Middle School (USA) and Delany (Aus) are taking part
at this time.
Read a book and talk about... simple! Enjoy!

INKYS WINNERS ARE ANNOUNCED!

At a Lunch on 19 November, we announced to Delany that

The GOLD INKEY FOR 2007 went to 'Notes from the teenage underground', by Simmone Howell
and the SILVER INKEY FOR 2007 went to 'Looking for Alaska' by John Green

Announcing our Books of the Year!

...And the winner is...
We held our awards ceremony on
Wednesday August 22
Thankyou to the Reading team, who organised another memorable event.

This year the adult judges agreed with us that
Catherine Bateson's 'Being Bee'
was the best Younger Reader book. But not one student voted for the
winners of the other 2 national categories which were Shaun Tan's
'The Arrival' as best picture book, and Margot Lanagan's 'Red spikes'.
Mrs Radford says these are excellent books, but they were not the books
that we liked this year.
Our winning picture book was
'The water witcher'
and the Older readers' winner was almost a tie, with
'My big birkett'
just winning over
'Don't call me Ishmael'.

Ben Okri's '10 1/2 inclinations' was our theme for today

No entry without a ticket!

Everyone enjoyed it
And now... announcing the INKYS! Starting 24 September!

WORLD YOUTH DAY - SYDNEY - next July!
Today, 18 July 2007, Delany College and Holy Trinity Primary School
were privileged to receive a visit from the Cross and Icon as they travel around Australia.
... at 1.30pm the Cross arrived ...to the sound of drummers....

... and hushed anticipation...

the Cross was moved slowly amongst us...

and through to the Primary School and the Church

Now we look forward to World Youth Day, Sydney, 2008.

'The movie is out ... now the book!
HARRY POTTER WEEK!
- Weeks 1 and 2
Enter the HP competition in Week 1
and listen to the book read at lunchtimes in Week 2
Bring your lunch

2007: Delany is reading!

We held our Reading Conference
Monday, 16 July.
Parents, You can still get a copy of the Reading in the home booklet.
Download it from here.
All students benefit from reading frequently. If your teen is a good reader then click here.
If you missed the audiobook session, click 'Professional' on this page
for the handouts and links.

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Please respect the needs of others.
We hope to see you often. We want to replace this section with a library FAQs.
Interested in being part of this? See Mrs R. In the meantime, more here..

Last updated 11 May 2008
created by Mrs Jan Radford,Teacher Librarian,
with assistance from Geoff Errington, to meet the needs of school community