Māpuna Library’s Display: Out on the Shelves!

The latest display in our library was to celebrate Pride Week in Schools! Out on the shelves is an online reading resource connecting rainbow young people with the stories that represent them.The 2021 Out on the Shelves campaign will be taking place from 14th-27th June. #OutOnTheShelves With some great flair from our Library Team and student librarians this rainbow display was made! We have a … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s Display: Out on the Shelves!

Māpuna Library’s Display: Samoan Language Week 2021!

Māpuna Library has done some awesome displays so far this year. This week we’ve been celebrating Samoan Language Week for 2021! With a combination of our non-fiction titles about Samoa, its culture and language and other Pasifika cultures, and fiction titles written by Samoan authors. As well as displaying some Samoan greetings. Manuia le vaiaso o le gagana Samoa! ~ Happy Samoan Language Week! Talofa … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s Display: Samoan Language Week 2021!

Māpuna Library’s Display: I can’t remember the title but it had a yellow cover…

The latest display in our library is inspired by quite a common question many librarians will be familiar with… Do you have this book? I can’t remember the title but…it had a *insert colour here* cover! This time we went with YELLOW! With the help of our wonderful student librarians we created this display. Happy Friday everyone! The Māpuna Library Team 😀 Continue reading Māpuna Library’s Display: I can’t remember the title but it had a yellow cover…

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 Halloween Display

Feast your eyes on our spooky, creepy Halloween display featuring a great selection of our horror and thriller reads. We enlisted the help of our skeleton (on loan from the Science department, thanks), creatively placed spiders webs, hanging ghouls, spiders, bats, a crow and our skull, Yorick! The display was finished off with our cauldron framed by ghostly hands filled with our mystery horror reads! … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s Halloween Display

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

There were many activities organised to celerate Te wiki o te reo Māori this last week. On Monday there was traditional weaving at lunch, Tuesday there was chalk drawing in the Cultural Space, Wednesday there was Kī-o-rahi (a traditional ball sport) being played on the fields, Thursday boasted brilliant a Kapa haka performance and on Friday was kai day with Frybread and a traditional Hāngi … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s Te Wiki o te reo Māori Week Display!

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 Book Trailers Display

Our latest library display highlights book trailers, thanks to EpicsReads YouTube channel who create great book trailers, we’ve put a few together a few of our titles to match these great trailers. Here are a few of the titles we have on display: Almost American Girl by Robin Ha (Graphic Novel Memoir) A Korean-born, non-English-speaking girl who is abruptly transplanted from Seoul to Huntsville, Alabama, … Continue reading Māpuna Library Book Trailers Display