Library

Caddies Creek Public School's library is a very dynamic and vital centre of teaching and learning. It is often referred to as the "hub" of our school!

As stated by Professor Ross Todd (2010):

The school library is the school's physical and virtual learning commons where inquiry, thinking, imagination, discovery, and creativity are central to students' information-to-knowledge journey, and to their personal, social and cultural growth. 

Library aims:

In accordance with the above statement, the aims of Caddies Creek Public School library are to:

• help equip and empower students as future learners by providing dynamic, relevant, challenging, higher order thinking teaching and learning experiences, which support the school's various teaching and learning programs
• provide a wide range of quality resources and technologies (in a variety of formats), which provide rich information and tools necessary for students to discover, build new ideas, create, present and share their findings and views
• promote students' interest and enjoyment of reading.

Components of the CCPS Library's teaching and learning program

The above aims are based on the effective implementation of:

• Flexible timetabling 
• Co-operative Planning and Teaching (CPT) which involves classroom teachers and other support staff working collaboratively with the teacher librarian to plan, resource, implement and evaluate units of work
• the Guided Inquiry (GI) research framework

View 5 minute video of Year 4 Guided Inquiry research (2015) at link: Integrating Guided Inquiry

• Evidence Based Practice (EBP) 
• Quality teaching
• Resource based learning, including Information Communication Technologies (ICT)
• Information literacy.