Like-minded MLMC students can now get more out of their reading by joining a revamped Junior Book Club held ever Wednesday lunchtime in McAuley Library’s reading room.
Four meetings have been held this year, with an average of 20 students attending. It is open to anyone, including staff, but it has mainly been attended by Year 7 and 8 students with all of the activities literature related. The activities have included a quiz game, an unusual Easter Egg hunt and the board game The Great Penguin Bookchase.
The egg hunt involved giving the students a clue to the title of the book and once they had guessed it they had to go and find the book on the shelf and they would be rewarded by finding an Easter egg behind the book.
If students attend three times they will earn full membership to the Book Club, which entitles them to extended borrowing rights over the school holiday period. Book Club members can take out eight books, double the normal allowance of four books.
We encourage all our students to pop in and try it. They may find they like it and get something out of it. Students Rachael Roper (Year 8 Purple) and Monique Ross (Year 8 Green) said they love the Book Club. “The games are fun and you get to learn about new books,” Rachael said. This week Rachael is reading a book by Lynette Noni and Monique is reading a book by JK Rowling.
