Students at Beaumaris Campus, will be encouraged to borrow books to get them through the summer holidays.
Summer Reading at Beaumaris Campus
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Beaumaris Campus Students complete the 2012 Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge.
Beaumaris Campus students celebrated the completion of the 2012 Victorian Premiers’ Reading Challenge, with a morning tea feast.
65 students from Beaumaris completed the challenge to read 15 or more books.
A total of 1370 books were read by students from January to August.
Beaumaris Campus Book Club
Beaumaris Campus Book club members have had a busy week celebrating a successful year…
Yesterday students visited Bayside City Council, Beaumaris Branch Library. Librarian Peter, chatted to students about books and asked for advice on books to place on the libraries suggested summer reading book list. Peter introduced students to the databases available to students to help with studying. It was a delightful morning and students enjoyed the book chat and morning tea.
This morning, Mrs Holmsquest held a morning tea for book club members, to thank students for their input and enthusiasm in helping to make books such an important part of Beaumaris Campus.
Book Club members have had a busy and fun 2012, talking about books, attending the Melbourne Writers festival, filming a book trailer, writing book reviews, organising the ‘murder in the library’ and making poems from book titles.
Students read their poems at todays morning tea.
BEAUMARIS CAMPUS BOOK CLUB
Beaumaris Campus book Club members have been enjoying creating poems from book titles held within the library.
Here is Chip’s creation…
THE HUNGER GAMES are GONE
The RESISTANCE is dying
and the CITY OF GLASS has fallen
THE DEAD I KNOWroam the streets
And it’s time to BURY THE DEAD because
the DEATHBRINGER has come.
BEAUI BOOK OF THE YEAR 2012
For the past two weeks, students on the Beaumaris Campus have been voting for the ‘Best Beaui Book’ of 2012. Students may vote on any fiction book that is held in the Beaumaris Campus Library.
Over 50 students voted on a wide range of genres, but the overwhelming winner was…
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
followed by
Divergent by Veronica Roth
and
Erebos by Ursula Poznanski (College Principal, Allen McAuliffe was encouraged by student members of the Beaumaris Book Club to read this book, I believe he enjoyed the story and its themes.)
Beaumaris Campus Students visit Melbourne Writers Festival 2012
Students from Beaumaris Campus were lucky enough to attend two sessions of the Melbourne Writers Festival this week. The group made up of a mixture of Year 7-10 students listened to award winning Australian authors, Cassandra Golds, Andrew McGahan and ‘Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ author John Boyne, discuss books they read when they were younger, what influenced them to write and where and who their inspiration comes from. It was great that students were able to hear how important books and reading were to these well know authors as they were growing up.
The Beaui kids were then treated to a special presention on the genre ‘Steampunk’, by well known Australian author Michael Pryor. Students were mesmerised as a well spoken Pryor, dressed in top hat and tails (the costume for Steampunk) spoke about Edwardian times and how it all ties in with the genre he succefully writes about.
As an extra treat students visited the National Gallery of Victoria to view The European Collection.
Beaumaris Students meet the author of Skulduggery Pleasant.
Last Friday, five students from the Beaumaris Campus were lucky enough to see well known author Derek Landy, the author of the Skulduggery Pleasant series. He spoke about the films he has made, the books he has written and the next two titles in the Skulduggery series which are yet to be published. After the talk, Derek signed books, including our Campus copy of his latest novel.
We would like to thank Beaumaris Books for our students having the opportunity to hear this very popular author speak about his writing.
Beaumaris Campus Book Club
ZOMBIE INVASION!!!
Members of the Beaumaris Campus Book Club, spent their student free day filming a book trailer based on the popular young adult fiction, ‘The Enemy’, by Charlie Higson. Students organised the script, equipment, filming locations, make-up, costumes and most importantly food. We look forward to viewing the edited (and maybe outtakes) of the film.
Students Search for Clues to the Beaumaris Campus Library Mystery
Students at Beaumaris Campus, were busy in the library at lunchtime searching for clues to solve the crime.
Mystery at the Beaumaris Campus Library
Students at Beaumaris Campus were shocked to find a crime had been committed in their library. They must now work out which fictional book character is the victim and which fictional book character committed the crime.
A series of cryptic clues directing them to books in the library will help them solve the crime.
We will keep you updated…
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