Māpuna Library’s Display: TIME Magazine’s 100 Best YA Books of all time!

The most recent display in our library is to promote the TIME Magazine’s curated list of their voted ‘100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time’! We were impressed that in our library we have quite a number of these “100 best” books! #TIMEMagazine100BestYABooks We had help from our Library staff and a group of student librarian’s who collected and displayed the books and covers. … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s Display: TIME Magazine’s 100 Best YA Books of all time!

Māpuna Library’s: Mental Health Awareness Week 2022!

Our latest display was to support Mental Health Awareness Week. We have a range of great titles that include non-fiction, self-help type books, to biographies and fiction with a mental health focus. Thank you to some wonderful student librarians who helped to design and put up this display. If you or someone you know is struggling with their mental health visit: https://mhaw.nz/ for more information … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s: Mental Health Awareness Week 2022!

Māpuna Library’s Te Wiki o te reo Māori Week Display 2022

This week was Te wiki o te reo Māori 2022! 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: Huia Short Stories (Contemporary Māori fiction) Hare Pota me te Whatu Manapou (Harry Potter … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s Te Wiki o te reo Māori Week Display 2022

Māpuna Library’s: Guess the Book Bingo 2022!

The most recent display in our library was another Bingo inspired display: Guess The Book Title! This has been one of our most popular displays this term. With 19 images to guess on our ‘bingo board’, we had a lot of engagement from our students, which is great! #GuessTheBookBingo We had help from our team of student librarians who came up with a few of … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s: Guess the Book Bingo 2022!

Māpuna Library’s: Commonwealth Games 2022!

The most recent display in our library was to follow along with the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham 2022! The New Zealand Team did very well overall with 20 Gold, 12 Silver and 17 Bronze medals. Finishing up 5th overall with 49 medals in total! Congratulations to all the sportspeople who competed, their coaches and family members involved in helping them to succeed! #Birmingham2022 In our … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s: Commonwealth Games 2022!

Māpuna Library’s: #BookTok Display

The most recent display in our library was to follow the hype that is #BookTok and to jump on that trend band-wagon! Tiktok seems to be the newest platform that has taken the publishing world to new heights. Tiktok is where we’re all looking for the next new thing, or in a lot of BookTok sensation cases, where you might meet you next best read! … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s: #BookTok Display

Māpuna Library’s: Pride Display 2022

The latest display in our library was to celebrate the Pride Month of June and specifically Pride Week in Schools! Which was 13-27th. Once again we partnered up with ‘Out on the Shelves’ campaign and this years bookmarks were just as popular as the last! The Aotearoa Pride Week in Schools (also created by InsideOut) stickers were a massive hit with students too. Out on … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s: Pride Display 2022

Māpuna Library’s Matariki Display 2022!

Māpuna Library’s latest display is to show our appreciation and celebration of Māori New Year, Matariki! With the help of our fantastic Library team, a display was created to recognise and cherish Matariki (pictured below). With hand-drawn stars to represent the 9 stars (whetu) of the Matariki cluster and yellow name/information cards. —————————————————————————————————————————- Matariki Matariki tāpuapua. Matariki nāna i ao ake te kai ki runga. … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s Matariki Display 2022!