Christ the King, North Rocks

Curriculum

Religious Education || Library || Technology || Key Learning Areas

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Library open hours. Library activities during lunchtime. Library borrowing.		Library collection. Library program.
Open Mon - Thurs (1.20 - 1.50 pm) Monday is 'Writer's Club' day		Activities Quiet reading Research work on projects Board games Educational videos Borrowing

Borrowing

Borrowing is supervised and conducted by the class teacher. This allows the class teacher especially to:

• monitor children's reading
• aid student in the selecion of appropriate reading levels
• challenge children to browse and enjoy
• encourage borrowing
• maintain the borrowing routine with all children

Borrowing days

Infants: Friday - 2 junior fiction book and 2 non fiction book over 1 week

Primary: Monday - 3 fiction books and 3 non fiction books over 2 weeks

• Student overdue notices will be processed over a fortnightly period to ensure continuous circulation and recovery of ''missing" books
• Overdue notice to parents with replacement cost of book will be forwarded with the 2nd notice

Library collection

The students and staff at Christ the King would like to acknowledge the generosity of the Catholic Education Office, Parramatta and the parent body (P&F) at CTK, for supporting our library resourcing.

CTK has an excellent collection of teacher resource materials be it print or audio visual. The library also has a Parents' section which you are welcome to borrow from.

Library program

The teacher librarian and the classroom teacher collaborate to produce meaningful units of work developed from the various key learning areas such as Human Society and its Environment, Science and Technology and English. Learning technologies (computers, digital camera, scanner, video camera, email), are but a few of the technologies successfully integrated into the curriculum.

Resource based learning(RBL) is the preferred model of research at CTK. The students engage with a variety of resources (paper based as well as electronic). RBL is used in order to aid students in their journey in the information process as they acquire the necessary information skills in their quest for lifelong learning.

Benefits of resource based learning:

• teaching research and information skills in context
• small groups - collaboarative teaching and planning (class teacher and teacher librarian)
• lessens the inequity of students with little or no information technologies at home
• all students achieve / succeed - small groups (emphasis on the learner)
• students learn the responsibility and skills of completing research assignments (on their own or collaboratively within a group situation).