Living Heritage Site features Cook Island schools - Check it out

 Living Heritage
Living Heritage is a website we shared with library staff and teachers at our workshops so it is great to see that there are now two Cook Island schools sharing their stories on this fabulous website

New School LIbrary site and box art

 Our NEW school libraries website has been launched. Check it out!!
 It has heaps of good information from creating readers to ideas for signage to inquiry learning.
http://schools.natlib.govt.nz/

 A great idea we had for the opening of our new building ( wish you could all see it) was book display box art .

We used our boxes we sent out to schools with their books to display book reviews and book cover designs done by school students.

Great idea for book weeks !!

Sharing with you some latest happenings on Mangaia

Tangike kotou e te au taeake. It's been awhile since I last visited our blogsite. So I thought I'll share with you a few of what is happening here on Mangaia.

As the classes has been finding information on the history of Mangaia School, our Principal thought that the library is the best place for students to have access to this information is in the library where it is available whenever students wants them. Interesting enough, parents who visit the library find this information very enriching as a number of them have loss track of the history of the School.

Last November Croc Coulters visited us with the Perfoming Arts Advisor, Charlotte Cousins and Annie O'nielle to introduce junk to funk in the school. During that time Croc took an art class which they named The Akatikitiki Artwork with some of our senior students as well as members of the community who are interested in improving their art skills. Their completed work is now being displayed in our library as you ca see in the photo on a ledge made by our senior 1 students during a HRD capentry workshop held here in the school.

We are fortunate enough to be the closest island to see the July 11th total solar eclipse so I thought of sharing what information we have found from various websites about eclipses. You may not be able to read them as the point of this is to share with you what we are doing here.

I hope that you are all enjoying your work in the library as well as creating new stuff all the time. One thing I'm finding hard is to finalise a library plan for my procedures manual as each time I think this is the final one, I think of changing a few things. So at the moment there is no set plan.

Good luck to you all and hope to see your libraries on our blogsite in the near future

Enuamanu School Library makeover Jan 2010

Spot the before and after photos of Barry's library transformation! Gone is the uninviting, forgotten dirty space with no face out shelving, no library computerised system and old, falling apart out of date books.

Amazing transformation from a uninviting dirty space with concrete floor, mouldy, out of date books , dirty shelves with no face out shelving and no computers to boot.