BPS School Library

Our school library is a modern flexible learning space and contains a wide collection of picture books, novels and digital resources. Classes participate in a weekly library lesson with our school librarian, where they have the opportunity to borrow books to take home which we strongly encourage.

Parents are asked to ensure that children have a suitable library bag for borrowing.

Book Club

Scholastics Book Club order forms are distributed twice a term. All orders and payment are made online using the Book Club LOOP. Items ordered are delivered to the school for distribution to students. The school receives a substantial credit from all orders made which we use to further stock our library and classroom resources.

Book club platform instructions

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Oliver Library

Students can access Oliver Library from their student portal.

How to use OLIVER Library

Click on this link for the student portal https://student.det.nsw.edu.au/

Premier's Reading Challenge

Each year all students at Bronte Public School take part in the Premier’s Reading Challenge (PRC). The PRC aims to encourage a love of reading for leisure and pleasure in students, and to enable them to experience quality literature. It is not a competition but a challenge to each student to read, to read more and to read more widely. Students in K-2 complete the PRC with their class and students in 3-6 complete the PRC independently.

https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/studentExperience.html#/

Premiers reading challenge

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Please see instructions below to access Oliver Library from the student portal.

Instructions below

School Library

Log on using the DET user name and password provided by your classroom teacher.
2. Select My School Library once you are in the portal.
3. Click on the Orbit icon on the right of the Oliver Library screen.
4. You should see the following screen once you are in Orbit.

Orbit

Orbit Book Library is a welcoming and vibrant community resource where book lovers of all ages can explore, borrow, and enjoy a diverse collection of books. Orbit offers something for everyone. It’s a great place to foster a love of reading, discover new favourite authors, and share the joy of books with others.

Navigate Orbit

How to navigate Orbit

Click My Library and you should see features such as Messages, Searches, Loans, Reserves, Loan History and Settings.

Messages is where you check messages from the library about your loans.
Search is where you can search books and save the search for future reference.
Loans is where you check how many books are currently loaned to you. This is also a feature that allows you to renew your loans for another 2 weeks. Please note the system will allow 3 renewals. If you need more than 2 weeks, you will need to see one of the library teachers.
Reserves is where books that are reserved in your name. If those reserved books are available you will be notified by one of the library teachers. All reserved books will be held for 3 weeks.
Loan History shows what you have borrowed in the last 12 months. This is a fantastic feature for you to go through and choose the books that are on the Premier's Reading Challenge (PRC) that you may wish to add to your PRC record.
Settings lets you personalise your OLIVER Library home page

How to renew a book

Select Loans and click the blue box that has a green arrow and a clock:

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Wheelers ePlatform

Online library

Within Orbit, you can access our audiobooks and ebooks.

^{Ebooks- click on ebook tab then click on the book and you will be taken directly to the book.}
^{Audiobook- search within Orbit for audiobooks and then click on the book and then the link to Wheelers.}

https://bronteps.wheelers.co/

Wheelers