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Curriculum : Information Services : Overview
Library
Library Assistant
K-2 Literacy Centre
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The library is the information resource centre within Knox Grammar Preparatory School. The library consists of a broad and exciting collection that services both student and staff information and recreational needs. There are over 17,000 resources available for loan including fiction and non-fiction books, periodicals, audio books, videos, maps and internet services.
The library plays an important role within the school and all students attend a lesson each week. The teacher-librarian works closely with teachers to integrate the learning experiences of both classroom and library into the library curriculum. The students follow an information skills scope and sequence methodology so that each year their information skills are built upon. Boys learn how to:
Define what they are looking for
Locate the resources that will answer their information need
Select the information that best suits them
Organise their information
Present their information
Evaluate their learning and the processes that they went through.
Literature also plays an enormous part in the library's curriculum. Students are actively encouraged to interact with books and delve into the many layers of their meaning. A major aim of the preparatory library is for students to develop a lifelong love of reading and books. |
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To help encourage their reading, many highly reputed authors regularly visit the school to talk to the boys. The boys get very excited about these visits; often the books written by that particular author vanish off the shelves for many weeks to come after the visit! We have had both Australian and international authors visiting the school.
Book Week plays an extremely important part in the school year at Knox Grammar Preparatory School with selected authors and performers visiting all classes. Celebrations reach a climax with Literary Day when boys have the opportunity to donate books to the library and also purchase books for themselves. |
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