We had a great Term 2 in the SPL Library, and some of our best achievements are summarised below.
1. The Top Class for books borrowed in Terms 1 & 2 was 8OEA averaging 23 books per student, closely followed by 7RFU at 22 books per student.
2. The Top Readers in each year group were:
- Year 7 - Noah Mika-Falefa who has borrowed an amazing 35 books this year
- Year 8 - Finau Moala borrowed a very impressive 33 books
- Year 9 - Wayne Kalapa is still the top Year 9 reader borrowing 31 books
- Year 10 - Marseille Niuula is still the top Year 10 reader borrowing 32 books and a student librarian.
3. The most popular three books were:
- Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
- I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944 by Lauren Tarshis
- Finding by David Hill
4. Since the beginning of the year we have 161 new books in the library, including purchases and donations, all ready for the students to borrow in Term 3. New purchases include autobiographies by David Goggins and Billy Slater, NZ novels including Miracle and Finding, and graphic novels including the Ragnarok series and Muhammad Najem, War Reporter.
As Malcolm X said “My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
Please ask your sons to drop into the library so we can find them a book to read for enjoyment, and allocate 10-15 minutes every night to pique their natural curiosity.