My name is Anne Cheung [sp].
I’m the teacher librarian here
at St. Francis of Assisi Primary School
in the northern suburbs of Melbourne.
I’ve been a teacher librarian for over 30 years
and mainly in primary school settings.
My role here at St. Francis is
as the teacher librarian in charge
of the libraries.
I’m responsible for the planning
and implementation of the learning program,
and also the management of the collection.
We have 35 classes
through here each week, so
all 900 children come through.
Our lessons are 40 minutes each,
so in every two-hour block,
we have six classes
through in any one time.
Here in the library,
we have 1.7 teaching staff.
So there’s myself, who’s full-time, and Denise,
who works 0.7 to help with the teaching load.
We have a full-time library technician,
and we have an aide who comes in for
six hours a week,
and we have many volunteers
And we do at least two hours of extra unpaid work,
helping with shelving of things.
Do you want to bring up
our [indecipherable]
just so that we can check
where we’re heading to
the next week?
Okay.
And I think with the five/sixers,
they’ve all got their task that they're doing,
the Champions Read task.
So what we need to do
is then just go through their planning sheet
with each of them this week
and make sure that they’ve got the detail down
of exactly step by step what they're doing. -Yeah
So make it really clear,
especially those children doing the surveys. -I know.
… they really need to note [sp] out
the questions -I know.
before they go off. -And they need that
extra step of having it written down,
designing their survey sheet
before they can go off and survey.
Yeah, I’ll do that.
Delphine Apierry [sp] is the director
of teaching and learning
here at St. Francis.
Her role is to plan
with classroom teachers,
and she’s my connection
with the classrooms.
While she’s planning with teachers,
I’m taking their classes.
I’ve got your email
and I’ve printed off the planner.
So I’ve just got a few questions.
I just need to clarify so I know specifically
what sort of resources
each of the different levels are looking for,
because at the moment it's fairly broad.
So I think we just need to
narrow it down.
Exactly, and I’ve got a list of their skills here,
so if we can match up the skills to the content,
Okay.
We don't have a lot
in those guided reading texts,
so I think I’m going to have to
purchase some more in that,
so we’ll have to act on that pretty quickly.
And the other thing,
one of the teachers mentioned
a DVD, which I’ve already sent off an order for,
and it's called the Celebrations’ For the Juniors one.
So I know Hannah’s Suitcase
is probably a little bit difficult for them to use,
but we have been buying some
sets of literature books,
and in particular some picture books
books that I think would fit in with that theme. -And with that migration,
stories of migration- -And they're all telling the story of migration,
so that would be fantastic.
And we’ve probably got some for the upper
levels as well.
So will we hold off Hannah’s Suitcase for the fives?
Yeah, I think so.
I think it's probably more suited
to an older level.
At our school especially,
children don't only learn from books today.
they can acquire information in a multitude of ways.
The Internet is one example.
DVDs are another.
They enjoy conducting their own surveys
and finding out information in a variety of ways as well.
The staff obviously
would come to the library looking for resources
that would help enhance
the student learning that’s going on in their classroom.
So they're looking for us to actually show them
what we actually have,
or if we have a gap that we’d be able to get
something in to meet that need that they want.
I think we always have to evaluate
what we’re doing
to see if what we’re doing is working.
We also need to look at
some formal evaluations,
and we might do that with
the post-unit reflections, just to see
whether what we did worked
or what we can improve
and where need to take it
for the next time we might be doing it.
We would look at some of the anecdotal
comments we get back from staff,
and they might feed back to us that
that resource was really good
or that resource didn't meet a need
or we were lacking
some resources in some area,
and if we could look to purchase some more.
We’d also look at our borrowing statistics
to see what’s going out
and what is used well
and what's not being used so much.
[crosstalk]