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Books as Art exhibition

11/4/2018

If you have some spare time on your hands over the holidays, you might like to recycle some old books into works of art and raise funds for the Regent Theatre Trust. As part of the annual Regent 24 hour book sale this year, there will also be a competition, exhibition and sale of books that have been remade into art. Find out more about the competition, or check out this Pinterest board for some creative ideas.

Image from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upcycling

Wednesdays are for silent reading

6/3/2018

Fancy a quiet read? Wednesday lunch times are dedicated to silent reading in the Information Centre, so bring your book and enjoy the peace and quiet.

Blind date a book this week

12/2/2018

Come to the Information Centre this week and borrow a Blind Date book.

The idea is to help you read something that you might not choose for yourself. We can all become quite set in our ways with reading, having 'go to' authors or genres that we know we enjoy, so a Blind Date book is a perfect way to discover something new. You might just find a new favourite!

Blind Date with a Book - 12th to 16th February

8/2/2018

Welcome to 2018

30/1/2018

Welcome back to the Information Centre for a new school year. Hopefully everyone has had a relaxing holiday break, and a chance to read a good book or two!

Our display for this term will feature some of our favourites, including books we read over the summer. Have you got a favourite that you'd like to recommend? Let us know and we can add it to the display!

And a reminder for the start of term that summer book bags are due to be returned now. Please get those back to the Info Centre as soon as possible so that others can enjoy the books too.

Summer Book Bag collection this Thursday 7th December

4/12/2017

If you applied for a summer book bag this year, they will be ready to collect from the Information Centre this Thursday (7th December).

They are looking great this year, with 7 or 8 library books, a book you can keep and a few extra goodies as well! We hope you enjoy reading some (or all) of these books over summer and look forward to hearing which ones were your favourites when you return them at the start of school in 2018.

Thank you very much to the following for donating goodies for the bags:
University Book Shop
Dunedin Public Libraries
Officemax
The Body Shop
Whitcoulls
Mrs Lyons and the Queen's Ex-Girls Assn

It's almost time for Special Summer Book Bags

18/10/2017

Once again we are offering our QHS students and staff the chance to borrow a bag of library books (and a few other treats) over the upcoming summer holidays. The books in the bag are especially selected for you individually, based on the kind of books you like to read and the things you are interested in. These are super popular, so don't miss out!

Grab an application form and return it before Friday 3rd November to secure your book bag. Please note that the bags will be ready for collection on the very last day of school (Thursday 7th December), so senior students will need to call back into school on that day to pick up their book bags.

Application Form
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Information for parents
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Our most popular books for 2017

18/9/2017

National Poetry Day, Friday 25th August

23/8/2017

This Friday (25th August) is National Poetry Day and to celebrate we will be watching some NZ poets perform on the big screen in the Info Centre during lunch time. If you can't make it along on Friday, the clips we'll be watching are in a YouTube playlist here.

And if you'd like to delve a bit deeper into NZ poetry here are some websites to try:

The New Zealand Poetry Society - for news, competitions, information and poems
Poetry New Zealand - poetry news, reviews and interviews, along with an academic poetry journal
Best New Zealand Poems - read and listen to some of the best poems for the year
New Zealand Poetry - an online forum for emerging poets to share their work

And don't forget about the poetry section in the Information Centre - it's full of amazing poets from NZ and around the world.

Book Lovers' Week winners

11/8/2017

Thank you everyone for another very successful Book Lovers' Week! We have had plenty of fun this week, making book spine poems and getting caught reading. At lunch time today, we celebrated with lollie cake and fudge slice (thank you to our lovely Canteen staff for this!) and congratulated all our winners:

Reading Challenge House Points:

1st place - Ballard with 555 points
2nd place - Rae with 525 points
3rd place - Pickering with 315 points
4th place - Dawson with 295 points

Reading Challenge winners of chocolate cake morning teas:

junior form class - 9MER
senior form class - 11SMI

Reading Challenge - Total books read by the whole school - 338

Reading Challenge spot prize draw winners of a $20 Whitcoulls vouchers:

Hannah Than
Danielle Turnbull
Anika Ayson
Sakina Ghous
Sophie Smith
staff winner - Mrs Burden

Book Spine Poetry Competition

1st place - Anika Bradley and Cherie-Rose Osten
2nd place - Taana Trotter
3rd place - Michaela McBratney
Highly Commended - Lily Sudol-Ware
Highly Commended - Katilyn Underhill and Serena Malloch

Get Caught Reading prize draw:

Katie Beamish
Megan King
Shania Hutton
Ann-Sophie Zolper
Charlotte Casey-Douglas
Caitlin Tucker
Charlle Harbrow
Ariana Jamieson

Word puzzles prize draw:

Sakina Ghous and Minduli Wewalage

A BIG thank you to the PSTA for supporting us with money for the cake and prizes, to Mrs Koni for judging the Book Spine Poetry, and to all the staff who supported our activities and encouraged students to get involved.