Celebrating Library Lovers Day

February 14th is Library Lovers Day.

It is the chance to celebrate your local library and in our school library, we were meant to have our celebration on the 15th, but we went into lockdown for a week. So we are having it on the 24th February.

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"Blind date with a book" was displayed and students encouraged to take home a book and read it based on the brief description that we put on the front of the books. We wrapped 80+ books. 

They were borrowed out to our Library Lovers Day account, so that if students were searching for them, they wouldn't get confused by seeing a book that was meant to be on the shelf.

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We created some flair to create bunting and some student voice slips to get feedback from students on the day.

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We bought 100 packets of sweets from Melted Candy to give out to kids at the circulation desk if they borrowed a book. Contact your local confectioner directly and ask them what they can do. It was a whole lot easier than trying to run around shops!

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Here are the completed student voice cards, and if you want to see more photo's the school's instagram posted some.

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It was such a popular event, with all the books borrowed out by the end of lunchtime. We also had the Principal come down and chat to students about their reading as well.

Unwrapping our 3D Printers

We got our three 3D Printers delivered at the start of February and we started to put them through their paces.

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We ended up getting some FlashForge inventor2 machines and a FlashForge Guider 2 for ABS printing. Realistically if I had an open chequebook I would have gotten three Ultimaker units, but we all have budgets in our School Libraries - right?

Firstly, a print off of Benchy the tug boat. A diagnostic print designed to test the thresholds of your printer.

One of our science teachers wanted an Apollo Astronaut printed for his Year 10 STEM class.

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One of our tech guys wanted a Baby Yoda printed off.

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We also experimented a bit with Pi Cookie Cutters. I love the idea of kids designing their own cookie cutters and then using them as part of a food tech project.

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I am putting links to 3D Printing resources up on my Library Makerspace Libguides page.