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 Display: “Intrigued by the first line…”

The latest display in our library was recommended by and put up with the help of our fantastic student librarians. The idea was to see if we could get readers to pick up a book without seeing the cover! Could they be hooked by the first line instead? Books with intriguing first lines were picked, the first lines typed up and wrapped to hide the … Continue reading Māpuna Library’s Display: “Intrigued by the first line…”

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 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!