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Getting Started with Computers

Posted by Dean Pitts

· Thursday, March 5th, 2020

Are you lost in the digital age?

Want to learn more about technology but don’t know where to start? Read More →

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Coding for kids after school – Register Now!

Posted by Dean Pitts

· Sunday, January 19th, 2020

Code Club is back by popular demand!

We had so much fun last term and we can’t wait to get back into it again. Don’t miss out, register now!

What is Code Club?

Code Club is a nationwide network of volunteer-led coding clubs with a mission to #getkidscoding! We are aiming to give every child the skill, confidence and opportunity to shape their world.

The program is aimed at kids aged 8 – 14 years of age who advance through a series of coding languages:

Scratch – a simple block-coding program which allows users to build animations and games while learning the fundamentals of coding.
HTML/CSS – allows users to develop their understanding while building web pages and online content from the ground up.
Python – this highly versatile programming language allows users to use their understanding and creativity to build Apps and complete web sites.
Blender – coders can build 3D animations and games, creating 3D characters and developing their own movies and stories.

Code Club is project based learning, aligned with the National Digital Technologies Curriculum and provides kids with the opportunity to collaborate, create, communicate and problem solve! We celebrate our errors and embrace them as a chance to learn.

Code Club is free to join and is supported by volunteers and library staff.

We strongly encourage parents to come along and be a part of what their child is working on and achieving. Not only that, kids can log in from home and continue progressing through their lessons.

Categories : Featured Posts, iTech, Kids, News Flash, Newsletter, Pre Teens, Social Activity, Social Media, What's On

16 Days in WA – Book #16

Posted by Dean Pitts

· Monday, December 9th, 2019

16. Educated

by Tara Westover

Tara Westover grew up preparing for the end of days; she spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected.

As she grew older, her father became more radical, and her brother, more violent. At sixteen Tara decided to educate herself. Her struggle for knowledge would take her far from her Idaho mountains, over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she’d travelled too far. If there was still a way home. Educated is an account of the struggle for self invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes with the severing of the closest of ties.

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16 Days in WA – Book #15

Posted by Dean Pitts

· Monday, December 9th, 2019

15. Ghost Wall

by Sarah Moss

Teenage Silvie and her parents are living in a hut in Northumberland as an exercise in experimental archaeology. Her father is a difficult man, obsessed with imagining and enacting the harshness of Iron Age life.

Haunting Silvie’s narrative is the story of a bog girl, a young woman sacrificed by those closest to her, and the landscape both keeps and reveals the secrets of past violence and ritual as the summer builds to its harrowing climax. Ghost Wall is a masterclass in the art of the short, unnerving novel; a story of forbidden borders, haunted landscapes and bodies in danger.

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16 Days in WA – Book #12

Posted by Dean Pitts

· Friday, December 6th, 2019

12. See What You Made Me Do

by Jess Hill

Women are abused or killed by their partners at astonishing rates.

In Australia, almost 17 per cent of women over the age of fifteen – one in six – have been abused by an intimate partner. In this confronting and deeply researched account, journalist Jess Hill uncovers the ways in which abusers exert control in the darkest – and most intimate – ways imaginable. See What You Made Me Do dismantles the flawed logic of victim-blaming and challenges everything you thought you knew about domestic and family violence.