Shortlisted books 2012 announced
What better way to begin Term 2 but with the announcement of the shortlisted books for this year. The winner in each category will be announced in Book Week. The books are: Book of the Year: Younger...
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In their library lesson, 6K were given ipads and told to make a 36 second movie promoting the library, using imovie. Mrs Wheatley, with the help of some very enthusiastic 6K participants, produced a...
View ArticlePremier’s Reading Challenge 2012 : last weeks.
Time is running out to complete the Premier’s Reading Challenge, with just four weeks to go. All reading records must be received in the library by Friday 17 August. Evandale students are well on track...
View ArticleChampions Read: Book Week 2012
Date: Monday 20 August – Friday 24 August, Week 6B. The theme this year is Champions Read. Book Week events Evandale Students: Wednesday 15 August, Perform Youth theatre. This performance has always...
View ArticlePRC now finished
The Premier’s Reading Challenge is now over for another year. All entries have been entered online and a total of 333 students completed the Challenge in the Junior School. Another 14 students chose to...
View ArticleAnna Feinberg
Anna Feinberg was our visiting author for Book Week. She spoke to Years 3-6 about the writing process, especially her love of words and about her Tashi series and her latest book, Louis beside himself....
View ArticlePLC participating in KOALA Awards
This year students in the Junior School at PLC will be participating in the KOALA Awards. Unlike the Children’s Book Council Awards, which consist of Australian books published in the previous year and...
View ArticleKindergarten Care for our World
Kindergarten have been learning how to care for their world by composting, recycling and caring for their world both in the classroom, playground and library as part of their PDHPE/Health program. A...
View ArticleCountdown to Doomsday…
Doomsday, the final book in the Phoenix Files series by Chris Morphew, will be launched at Shearer’s Bookshop on Wednesday 22 May at 6pm. Come along and join in the fun. All welcome.
View ArticleSally Rippin meets our Billie
Last Tuesday, popular children’s author Sally Rippin, visited PLC. The Melbourne resident and author of the very popular Billie B Brown series was in Sydney for the Sydney Writers’ Festival, and...
View ArticleWelcome to Ludus
Welcome to Ludus Blogs, the blogging tool for all members of our school community. The word “Ludus” is a Latin word that means school or game. Because we like to think that blogging is a great way to...
View ArticleThe new look
We are about to embark on an exciting new adventure into the blogging world with Year 6 and their teachers. I think the new theme is bright coloutful and very appealing. We are looking forward to...
View ArticleWhat the heck is an Akismet Key?
When you log into your blog you may see a banner at the top of your dashboard page that asks you to enter an “Akismet Key”. Don’t panic… Akismet is a service that helps eliminate spam comments on your...
View ArticleIt’s not that far away
Our on line digital footprint is something that will be increasingly important. Both potentially detrimental and positive, only dependant on how we manage it. To give ourselves the most reasonable and...
View ArticleA Bit of Rearrangement
This site, blogs.ludus.me, is the home page of the school blog server. It’s kind of a “master page” or entry point to many of our school blogs for classes, teachers, students, library, etc. To make it...
View ArticleA blog of your own
It’s worth mentioning that any member of the school community is welcome to have a blog here. We run the latest version of WordPress (pretty much the gold standard in blogging software!) and you have...
View ArticleThat Avatar really suits you!
A number of you have expressed an interest in being able to have your own picture (or a picture of your own choice) show up next to your name in the comments on your blogs. By default, the avatar...
View ArticleWrapping up the AGQTP Project
This blog server was set up for many reasons, but one of them was to support the teacher and students taking part in the AGQTP blogging project during 2011. if you dig in to the site using the links on...
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