Welcome to the Hervey Bay Special School Library News Page
We have a wonderful
library that contains many resources for both students and staff to
access. Students come to our school
library to learn in a different environment and to practise skills they can
transfer to the community, for example, when they access the town library.
Students can explore our Junior Fiction section which
contains picture books from a range of authors. These books are colour coded
green and sequenced in alphabetical order. We also have a small selection of
board books, coloured coded yellow, for our younger or sensory students to
explore. Older students can discover both the Senior Fiction area, which is colour
coded purple and sequenced in alphabetical order, as well as, the Non-Fiction
area which has an ever increasing range of non-fiction books and is colour
coded orange.
The library also offers games, music, a listening post with
audio books, fine motor activities such as loom banding, cutting, colouring and
other art and craft activities. Students find coming to the library a quiet,
calming and yet stimulating environment where staff can interact with them in
both formal and informal learning conversations.
For teachers and teacher aides, the library has an
increasing range of Teacher Reference materials that can be located at the rear
of the building. These resources cover all key learning areas and provide
teachers with both paper and hands on activities for students to experience and
explore.
The library catalogue system, Oliver, is providing students
with exciting ways to research unit topics or topics of interest. Students can
generate a library search at home using the school website, or additionally, in
their classrooms. This is also a wonderful resource for teachers, providing a
link to a range of activities, learning objects, worksheets, e-books,
interactive websites and other resources which make learning fun for the students
at our school.