End of Year 2021 - Update

Congratulations to Room 5 who were the first class with all student library books returned. Room 4 followed a few days later and Room 12 was next. Lets hope a few more classes are able to return their remaining overdues by the last day of term!"

The library stocktake is now completed. We still have a number of books that are missing - they are not in the library and they are not on issue. We'd love to have these books back again, so if you find any hiding behind shelves or under the furniture over the holidays, at school or at home, please put them in a safe place ready to drop back to the library next year.

(Updated every day or so until 16 December 2021)

End of Year Reminder 2021

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Dahlia Malaeulu Author Visit

On Wednesday, 24th November, author Dahlia Malaeulu visited St Brendan's. Dahlia was scheduled to visit us in September but with New Zealand going into a snap Level 4 lockdown due the COVID-19 Delta variant before this and Level 3 restrictions following we had to reschedule. Dahlia's visit was definitely worth the wait!

Dahlia held three 45 minute sessions, adjusting her approach to the age of the student audience. She told us about how she got started writing books, originally writing stories to introduce her two young boys to the Samoan language through numbers, colours and days of the week. Her first three books, published in 2019, were Mase's Room, Lagi Spies and Malia Shares. These proved so popular that she has continued writing books introducing the Samoan language to older children, and babies, and also sharing with young adult readers stories of growing up in New Zealand as a young Samoan in the books Teina Samoa and Tama Samoa.

In all three sessions Dahlia prompted students to say the Samoan numbers and cultural items after her. She read and shared the board book Going to Te Papa - Asiasiga 'i Le Falemata'aga - Te Papa about important Samoan cultural items showing and sharing her knowledge of the items and handing examples around for students to see and touch.

Thank you so much for coming to visit us Dahlia, we hope you can visit us again one day!