Māpuna Library’s Display: Character Bingo!

The last display of our term was an extremely popular Character Bingo display. Where students had to guess the names of a collection of fictional characters. From famous book series, TV shows (book adaptations) and characters. We had a lot of engagement and participation from our student body which was great! Maybe, the prizes were a good incentive! #CharacterBingo Thank you to all our student … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s Display: Character Bingo!

Māpuna Library’s Most Popular Reads

Our latest library display highlights our Most Popular Reads for our juniors, Years 9 and 10. We have a top 3 for each year group. Year 9 Here are our top 3 titles on display: Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into a new year and a new school where undersize weaklings share the corridors with kids who … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s Most Popular Reads

Māpuna Library’s Tongan Language Week Display!

Māpuna Library has done some awesome displays so far this year. This week we’ve been celebrating Tongan Language Week and this is what we came up with! With a combination of our non-fiction titles about Tonga, its culture and language and other Pasifika cultures, and fiction titles written by Tongan authors. As well as displaying some greetings and key library-related phrases in Tongan language. Loto-poto’ … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s Tongan Language Week Display!

Māpuna Library Pride Display

Māpuna Library has done some awesome displays so far this year. Our newest display is to celebrate Pride month and our LGBTQIA+ community. Some of our new titles include: Heartstopper (Volume 1) by Alice Oseman Charlie, a highly-strung, openly gay over-thinker, and Nick, a cheerful, soft-hearted rugby player, meet at a British all-boys grammar school. Friendship blooms quickly, but could there be something more…? Gender … Continue reading Māpuna Library Pride Display

Māpuna Library’s awesome displays!

Māpuna Library has done some awesome displays this year. With the help of our fantastic Student Librarian team we flexed our creative muscles with four fantastic displays. Firstly, Top Titles a vertical hanging display presenting the student librarian’s own reviews of their current reads (pictured below). An eye-catchingly colourful display with the Are you feeling blue? and Are you seeing RED? (pictured below). As well … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s awesome displays!

Māpuna student librarians’ award-winning display!

This year Māpuna Library participated in the HELL Pizza Reading Challenge 2019 which works in collaboration with the NZ Book Awards. This a competition where students had to read 7 books and get each one signed off by a library staff member/teacher. Once 7 books had been read, they qualified for a free pizza from HELL Pizza! The library staff made it more challenging by asking a series of questions about each … Continue reading Māpuna student librarians’ award-winning display!