My name is Mrs. Rosemary Maggie, your Jr./Sr. High School Librarian. I would like to welcome you and your children to our library. I am looking forward to working with our students, and I am so happy that I will be able to help our students explore the library and discover what it has to offer them.
VISION STATEMENT: The vision of the New Castle Jr./Sr. High School Library is to seek to create a 21st century environment that promotes learning for all students by providing access to information and to encourage lifelong reading.
MISSION STATEMENT: The mission of the New Castle Jr./Sr. High School Library is to provide students with the opportunity to become not only lifelong users of information, but also creators of information. The library will support the curriculum by collaborating with teachers, developing a collection that is representative of the community, and providing the resources that students need to succeed academically.
MY GOAL is to:
- Cultivate lifelong readers who find joy and knowledge from reading books and other media.
- Collaborate with teachers that will encourage student interaction both with print and electronic resources.
- Create a learning environment that provides every student access to technology as well as the knowledge of how to use it effectively and ethically.
GENERAL INFORMATION:
- The library will be open daily from 7:30 a.m.-2:15 p.m. (closed for lunch 10:55-11:30 first semester and from 11:55-12:30 second semester).
- 6th grade classes will visit the library on a 5 day scheduled class rotation basis.
- 7th and 8th grade ELA classes will visit the library on a scheduled book exchange basis (every other week for book exchange).
- All students will have the ability to visit the library when their class comes in to do research.
- Students are welcome to come to the library to study, browse, and checkout books from the collection when permitted by classroom teachers.
- Students may check out up to 2 books at a time, for 14 days (including weekends). Feel free to renew! A book may be renewed a maximum of 2 times.
6th grade Curriculum:
The “Special Classes” this year are on a 5 day rotation schedule.
The Library Curriculum will focus on the following topics:
- Library curriculum designated by the state of Pennsylvania
- Digital Citizenship Lesson #1: Chatting Safely Online
- Digital Citizenship Lesson #2: Digital Drama Unplugged
- Digital Citizenship Lesson #3: Finding Credible News
- Novel Engineering Project and Presentation of Project
Grading Scale: Satisfactory (S) 81-125%
Emerging (E) 61-80%
Non-satisfactory (N) 0-60%
Scholastic Reading Counts (SRC):
The 6th grade students will participate in SRC, a computerized reading program purchased by the district. Students will read books that qualify them to take a multiple choice test about the book on the computer. The goal is to read 25 books in the school year as suggested by the Standard 1.1 Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking Standard.
To help monitor this goal, there will be 3 short term SRC promotions and 2 year long promotions. Information and dates about the promotions can be found in the students’ Library Google Classroom.
Book Expert Online:
If you want to know if you have a book that would qualify for a SRC test, click on the following link. Click on search title. You may search for a book by its title, author, or keyword.
Follett Destiny Database:
If you are interested knowing the books that can be found in our library, click on the following link for our district’s library catalog:
https://ncasd.follettdestiny.com
You can search for a library book by author, title, subject, keyword, or series.
Please do not hesitate to contact me at rmaggie@ncasd.com