To celebrate World Book Day (Thursday 7th March) we created our latest display in the library. With a mixture of fiction and non-fiction from international authors and with content about different places around the world. #WorldBookDay Thanks to our wonderful group of new student librarians for 2024 and staff who worked together to collect and create the signage and decorations for this display! Continue reading Māpuna Library’s: World Book Day 2024!
To celebrate Valentine’s Week last week, our Valentine’s display! If you wanted a romance read, a mystery or historical fiction, thriller or drama with a romantic twist, or perhaps try a book of short love stories! #HappyValentinesWeek Continue reading Māpuna Library’s: Valentine’s Week 2024!
To celebrate the end of October, our spooky Halloween display, with a real pumpkin this year! The idea was to grab a mystery spooky read from the cauldron, with several horror reads wrapped up, you didn’t know what you were going to get! #HappyHalloween Thanks to a group of our student librarians and staff who worked together to collect, wrap and create this display! Continue reading Māpuna Library’s: Halloween 2023!
Last week in Aotearoa New Zealand we celebrated Te wiki o te reo Māori! We celebrated the week with several events throughout the school and our display was a combination of our non-fiction titles about Māori culture, learning the language and some of our books in te reo on display. Some of the titles included: Hare Pota me te Whatu Manapou (Harry Potter and the … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s Te Wiki o te reo Māori Week Display 2023!
Our most recent display, last week was Tongan Language Week, we displayed a combination of our non-fiction titles about Tonga, its culture and language and other Pasifika cultures. As well as displaying some greetings and key library-related phrases in Tongan language. Loto-poto’ — Understanding ‘Loto-‘ofa’ — Kind-heartedness ‘Poto’iloto’ — Wisdom ‘Loto-hounga’ — Gratefulness ‘Loto-faka’apa’apa’ — Respectfulness Library – laipelí ‘o e Books – ngaahi tohí Continue reading Māpuna Library’s Tongan Language Week Display 2023!
The most recent display in our library is to celebrate the beginning of spring. With a combination of colourful book covers to represent flowers in bloom and a few books about gardening and horticulture. #LeapintoacolourfulSpring Continue reading Māpuna Library’s: Leap into Spring Reads!
The most recent display in our library was another Bingo inspired display: Guess The Book Title! To celebrate School Libraries Week Aotearoa! This has been one of our most popular displays this term. With 24 images to guess on our ‘bingo board’, we had a lot of engagement from our students, which was great! #BookBingo We had help from our team of student librarians who … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s: Book Bingo (it’s back) 2023!
Last week was Cook Islands Language Week 2023! Our display this year included some books surrounding culture, myths and legends and language and other Pasifika cultures. As well as displaying some Cook Island greetings. ‘Epetoma o te reo Māori Kūki ‘Āirani – Cook Islands Language Week is ‘Ātuitui’ia au ki te au peu o tōku kāinga Ipukarea, which means, “connect me to the traditions & … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s Display: Cook Islands Language Week 2023!
Māpuna Library’s latest display is to celebrate Matariki, Māori New Year. With the help of our fantastic Library team, a display was created, with specially made stars to represent the 9 stars (whetu) of the Matariki cluster with names and information on each star. Thank you to our Head Librarian for making the stars herself! We also displayed a few of the non-fiction books we … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s Matariki Display 2023!
Last week was Sāmoan Language Week 2023! Our display this year included some books about Sāmoa, its culture, myths and legends and language and other Pasifika cultures, and fiction titles written by Sāmoan authors. As well as displaying some Sāmoan greetings. This year’s theme was: ‘Mitamita i lau gagana, maua’a lou fa’asinomaga’ which means ‘Be proud of your language and grounded in your identity’. Manuia … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s Display: Sāmoan Language Week 2023!
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