Elementary
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Year 6 – Top Reads 2018
Students were surveyed, asking for one or two books they would recommend to their friends. Click here for a PDF of all the books Year 6 students recommended (also displayed below). To search all the books recommended by secondary school students, click...
Top Reads: Year 5
Students were surveyed, asking for one or two books they would recommend to their friends. Click here for a PDF of all the books Year 5 students recommended (also displayed below). To search all the books recommended by secondary school students, click...
Enjoy reading the New York Times – get your “academic pass”!
The New York Times and all its educational content is free -- by activating a NYTimes.com "Academic Pass" using your school email account. Follow these steps: Visit nytimes.com/passes. Create a free NYTimes.com account using your school email address. If you...
How do I create my own personal account in EBSCOhost Research Databases?
You can set up a personal account that you can use to save search results, persistent links to searches, saved searches, search alerts, journal alerts and web pages to your personal folder. To set up a personal account: Click the Sign In in the top toolbar of the...
Neilson Hays Young Writers Award 2018 – Entries due 19th Feb (NOT the 26th)
The 2nd annual Neilsen Hays Young Writers Award program -- for schoolchildren ages 10-18 -- has started! See the information on the website (link above) or speak with Ms. Vivien Hall in the Secondary English Dept. or one of the teacher-librarians: Mr. Philip Williams...
Read online newspapers from around the world for free while on campus!
The library is trialling PressReader for the next two weeks. With PressReader you can search and read 6000+ magazines and newspapers -- in 60 languages, from 100+ countries -- on your laptop -- and download them onto your mobile device, if desired, using the...
How can I find NIST library Audiobooks in Destiny Discover?
There are a range different audiobooks and ebooks available through the NIST libraries. One of our main ways to access Audiobooks and ebooks is through the Destiny Discover app available for computers, iPads, iPhone and Android devices. Follow the steps in...
Why is the Destiny Quest app not working on my phone or iPad?
Destiny Quest is not compatible with the new iOS 11 operating system so if you have updated your device then it will not work. We contacted the software designer Follett who informed us that they will discontinue support for Destiny Quest and have developed Destiny...
How can I recommend a book for the library to buy?
Can’t find a book? Know of a good book we don’t have? There’s a form for that….
Fidget Spinners : What do toys tell us about ourselves?
"The small spinning gadgets are sweeping through classrooms across the globe (and then quickly getting banned). They are “hula-hoops for Generation Z”. What do toys tell us about ourselves? It was “one horrible summer” in the early 1990s when inventor Catherine...
The Mechai Learning Commons Philosophy
We believe the our learning commons is a community space that serves as a place for ideas, reflection, collboration and interaction to promote learning. It is an environment where both print and digital literacy are used to provoke inquiry, extend curiosity and enrich imagination.
Our learning commons is a welcoming and engaging central hub that connects our multilingual community.