Castle Hill Public School

Providing excellence in education since 1879

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Library

Library Borrowing 

Students need a library bag to borrow. You can buy a library bag for $2.00 from the library OR bring your own cloth bag. No bag, no borrowing.   

Students can borrow 2 books each week during class borrowing.  

In the lead up to school holidays, students can borrow 3 books. No borrowing in lead up to December holidays.
 

Library sessions at lunch

The library is open at second half of lunch (Monday to Thursday) to different grades, if students wish to return and borrow books.  
 

Overdue, lost or damaged books 

Overdue slips are printed every 3-4 weeks to encourage circulation of books, reduce wait times for popular series and minimise book loss.  

If a library book has been misplaced or lost, please check home and classroom trays. Then notify library staff to double check library shelves (sometimes it's misshelved by students). 

If the books are lost or heavily damaged, you can purchase a replacement copy or pay for the book via School Bytes.

See “How to pay for lost books via School Bytes

Please contact library if you have any queries about this.   
 

Book Donations to the library 

We welcome book donations to enrich our school library collection. 

Before you bring any donations, please email librarychps@gmail.com with photos of any books you would like to donate. This is to ensure we optimise the limited shelf space. 

We usually accept books that are: still in good physical condition, have undamaged pages, is highly appealing to readers or relevant for curriculum learning.  

We usually don't accept books with: damaged pages, board books, older versions of books, if we already multiple copies of the book, or any magazines. 
 

Stocktake:  

In Term 4, borrowing usually ends around Weeks 6-7 to allow time for library stocktake.  

Thank you  

Library staff