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The Final Chapter Book Club: (Danum)
The society commenced in September 2001 at the request of students who had participated in the school’s first Carnegie Shadowing group, and it was this group who invented the name. The group meets during the whole of Wednesday lunchtimes, in the library; only members are permitted entry at this time and are allowed to eat and drink. New members are always welcome. At the end of the academic year members receive a certificate denoting projects undertaken, reviews written and generally giving them something solid to put in their Record of Achievement. From January 2006 the group has widened its cohort to include those interested in writing creatively. A launch event was held with participants joining Dave Cryer in a creative writing day so successful the students wanted to fundraise to pay for him to come back! The creative writing initiative is intended to give students a place to confidently, anonymously and safely write whatever they wish without fear of censorship, being judged or read, having their spelling, punctuation or grammar corrected or even having to show anyone at all. This is a new element to the group so time will tell…
The group undertakes reading related projects, produces a magazine, reads and reviews books, shadows the Carnegie and Greenaway Medals and joins in the annual Doncaster Book Award. The members also read and review whatever they wish and write whatever their imagination tells them to!
The L_TAG : (Newton(Newtown Middle School)
L-Tag has been going for a while now. We like to have fun by having contest and activities for our school. Every year we do a contest at our school called survivor at your library. All the kids in the school vote off the books they don’t like and at the end there is only one book left. The “ survivor!” survivor!"
We meet every Tuesday during our activity time; after homeroom, and we always welcome new members.
We are a big family, hear at Newtown Middle School library. We might only have one thing in common loving to read, but that doesn’t stop us!
The Full Stops: (Delany College)
'The Full Stops' originated in 2006 when Rosette suggested the idea of a Book CLub to Mrs. Radford.
Rosette became the first President, and Ashley was pulled in as Vice President of the Club and the Book Club began!
Rosette speaking....
We began by having our weekly meetings on Mondays in the back room of the library.
Members would bring their lunch, and the book they were currently reading to share with the group.
We used the Library Blog to start, then I created the Book Club blog. The link is also on the Library main page.
After a while we decided to give the club a bit of a makeover.
The first stage was to increase our members.
Members still bring their lunch to eat, and the book they are reading to share with the group.
We changed our meetings to a more suitable day of Wednesday and moved the location to
the fiction area where we were seen by many students. We got 3 new members on the very first day.
We introduced our little snacks, where everyone was assigned a week to bring some nibblies and
we decided to create a name. Late 2007, we voted as a club and decided on the Full Stops!
A close vote it was, with only one vote difference with the runner up name.
Now we're a club that reads, develops the library program, promotes reading activities for students,
and makes reading fun.
