Christmas in the IMC

In celebration of the festive season, the library team has created joyous displays that not only showcase the fun of Christmas but also remind our students to stock up on books for their holiday reading.

 Winter Reading Challenge 

A record number of students in Years 7-10 met or exceeded their reading goals for the 2022 Winter Reading Challenge. The wonderful effort made by these students to further their literacy skills by consistently reading a wide range of texts was rewarded with a delicious pizza lunch in the IMC. 

Well done girls and we look forward to even more students completing the challenge in 2023! 

Readers’ Club

Our wonderful Readers’ Club has Christmas wrapped up!

Continuing the fun of ‘Blind Date with a Book’ from Valentine’s Day, students have wrapped up a number of the library’s novels as Christmas presents and placed them under our Christmas tree. The card attached to each gift provides clues to the novel’s genre and students are encouraged to take a gift and borrow it for their holiday reading.

This is a wonderful initiative and encourages reading over the holiday break.

Donations and Freebies

As the end of the year approaches, many of us find ourselves in clean up mode in preparation for the year ahead and discover books we no longer need. We have been doing a cleanup of our own and have created a ‘freebie’ trolley of books that students are welcome to take home. Many students have taken the opportunity to stock up on books for their own bookshelves.

If you find that you have books (fiction and non-fiction) at home that are in good condition and are no longer needed, feel free to bring them to the IMC.

We gratefully accept donations and extend a very big thank you to those who have donated books to the library this year. Your generosity is truly appreciated. 

SORA

Throughout the year, the students of MMCC have been consistent users of this fantastic online reading platform and are consistently placed in the top users of SORA for high schools in the Sydney Diocese.  As students are embarking on their Christmas break, it is a good time to remember the benefits of using  SORA.

1. It is a library that is open 24 hours, 7 days a week
2. It has fiction, non-fiction, audiobooks and magazines on offer for all ages and reading abilities
3. It will download immediately to your device and be returned automatically after 21 days
4. You don’t need to carry around lots of books, especially if you are travelling this Christmas.

Access to SORA is through the IMC Library on Compass or at https://soraapp.com/library/cenetau (using CENET details to sign in). See how to access video. Our school is ACEN (Australian Catholic Education Network) as we share thousands of eBooks, audiobooks and magazines with other dioceses. 

Some of the many Christmas titles on offer from SORA