NSBHS Library

16/05/2023

The NSBHS Library page will be closing.

Thanks to the ex-library assistants who set up and helped manage the page back in in 2016.

This is the first image we posted back then.

We will continue to post library news via the school's page : https://www.facebook.com/NorthSydneyBHS/

See you there!

10/05/2023

08/05/2023

Publication of our Top Borrowers for Term 1 in each year group shows that many of our year 7 students have a sophisticated range of reading material. This can be seen from the list of books borrowed by Eric Fu, our Top Borrower for Year 7.

The results are in!
Year 7 - Eric Fu - 35 Books
Year 8 - Henry Liang - 21 Books
Year 9 - Arnav Karyekar - 7 Books
Year 10 - Luke Yang - 27 Books

There’s at least one in every year group, (and one or two teachers) - people who enjoy the complete distraction of working on a jigsaw puzzle. It seemed to be particularly popular amongst the Year 12 students during the exam block. A group was heard singing together as they worked on the impossible ‘sushi cat’ that ultimately defeated us all with its expanse of white.

06/04/2023

Happy Holidays everyone! A special thanks to our regular library goers & library assistants!

The library is currently featuring our large collection of ATSI (Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander) resources to support staff development day next Term. Books are sorted into Fiction & Non-fiction with book contributions from HSIE and artwork from VA.

See you all next Term! 🎉

31/03/2023

“The mission of Project Gutenberg is simple: ‘To encourage the creation and distribution of ebooks,” and, “to provide as many ebooks in as many formats as possible for the entire world to read in as many languages as possible.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QETYDU2Csyg

A reminder that over 60,000 free ebooks are available via Project Gutenberg.

And that NSBHS Library also has an extensive ebook collection for students via ePlatform which can be downloaded as an app and accessed using your student email and login.

https://www.eplatform.co/au/find-libraries/

15/03/2023

Yesterday was Pi Day! 🥧

We celebrated with a display of our most amazing Maths-themed Pi Collection of books...

This is "Happy Pi Day!" by Mometrix Test Prep on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

01/03/2023

Our new Aboriginal & Torres Straight Islander themed booklet features books sorted into Non-Fiction, Fiction & Poetry sections.

Some are part of our collection but lots are new purchases, some of which are still on their way to us.

Hard copies can be perused in the library or access a digital copy here: https://rb.gy/coemym

We're currently displaying some beautiful Haiku poetry from Year 7 English as well as a display of the Top 100 Books from the 21st Century (so far). Our featured author is Julie Kagawa.

And some amazing new books are arriving with more on the way!

Don't forget to drop in tomorrow at lunchtime as Year 12 Music students perform for the last time before their assessment block! 🎹🎼🎻

09/02/2023

09/02/2023

Welcome back to all students and an especially big welcome to the new Year 7 class of 2023!

It was great to see so many new parents come join the Parent Book Covering Group. The group of 17 were a huge help covering textbooks for HSIE and LOTE and they had a great time getting to know each other. Thank you parents!

Congratulations to our Top Borrowers of 2022! These three are regular borrowers of a wide range of books from our amazing collection. Leo was presented with a book by Neal Shusterman for his efforts.

Year 7 2022 Top Borrower was Leo Wang (45 books)
Year 8 2022 Top Borrower was Peter Luo (32 books)
Year 9 Top Borrower was Alex Hu (33 books)

Peter's favourite books was 'The Tattooist of Auschwitz', a novel by Heather Morris, and Alex's (not pictured) favourites were the science books, as science is his favourite subject.

Our Term 4, 2022 Top Borrower results are also on display. These went to: Jeremy Wu (Year 7 2022), Peter Luo (Year 8 2022), Ray Huang (Year 9 2022) and Brendan Boomla (Year 10 2022).

Lastly, we have new book displays featuring books with an environmental theme 'Tree of life' and 'Magical Realism' book collection. And our Featured Author is best-selling Fantasy writer Joe Abercrombie.

15/12/2022

Grab an eggnog? and listen to Neil Gaiman read A Christmas Carol from a version Dickens edited specifically to be read aloud.
Link in article.
Merry xmas etc 🎄🎁🎉

We're celebrating the publication anniversary of the Dickens' classic with this special reading by Neil Gaiman from 2013.

14/12/2022

Last chance to borrow some of our new books for some holiday reading (including those on our new humour display)!!!

While you're about, take a look at our amazing exhibition of Year 10 'Australian Satire' lino prints.

Happy Holidays & wishing you all a happy, restful break! 🥳

01/12/2022

Arigatou to KTsensei and special guest teacher Tatsuya!

The Hiragana calligraphy done in brush and ink says Australia.