Our school library is referred to as the TWiST, to mirror our vision statement and show that this facility is much more than a place where books are stored.
Together We Shape Tomorrow through information, interaction and imagination – this belief underpins Frenchville State School’s vision and beliefs around 21st century learning and comes to life in the TWiST centre. The TWiST centre is the information hub of the school.
The TWIST is open during most lunch breaks for quiet reading, board games, and quiet collaborative indoor play such as the wooden train set construction or puzzles.
Library facilities
This multi-purpose wireless space enables all students an opportunity to come together and share information. It houses the:
- TWiST theatre: a multimedia classroom capable of showing presentations to a large audience seated in tiered rows.
- TWiST lab: a computer lab that consists of 28 new computers for whole class access.
- TWiST: home to a large collection of children’s literature, information books, teacher resources.
- School history: our trophy collection and historical memorabilia is housed in the TWiST foyer. In addition, we have a large history wall, capturing large photographs of our school's past.
- Makerspace - Robotics and Coding Space: this space is the heart of our school Technology curriculum.
- TWiST meting room: accessed for teacher planning.
- Classroom reading storeroom: teacher only zone.
Weekly use of the library provides all children with the opportunity to develop information skills and a love of literature. All classes have weekly timetabled borrowing times. Children can also borrow library books independently as often as they wish.
TWiST library borrowing and use
The TWiST centre library is open Monday to Thursday for student borrowing at the following times:
Before school: 8.15am - 8.35am
First break: 11.00am - 11.30am
It is requested that each child has a library bag when borrowing resources as this helps protect our valuable resources from wear and tear.
Borrowing policy
The following borrowing limits apply:
- year one: 2 fiction books
- years two and three: 1 non-fiction or 2 fiction books
- years four and six: 4 books
The loan period is two weeks. Students can return their books when completed and reborrow again. They do not have to wait until their scheduled library lesson to do this.
Students may have borrowing rights restricted due to lost, damaged or consistently overdue books. We also request that damaged or lost books are replaced by parents to keep our resource collection in good order.