Motueka High School Library

14/08/2026

14/08/2026

Great to have Dr Steve return for another Speed Reading session. And thanks to Kaela for running a lunchtime Lord of the Rings quiz. Your LOR knowledge is impressive Van!

14/08/2026

Book Week Winners: A huge thankyou to all the readers, staff and students who participated. Long live Lord of the Rings, adventures and reading. There were some very creative book characters around: 1st Jem Roxborgh, 2nd Jenni Howells, 3rd Kelia Buckland. Good to see some new competitors in Speed Reading- after some judge discussion Harrison O'Reibow has been awarded 1st, Ryan Kroupa special prize, Rose Baillie 2nd, Eleanor Cornforth 3rd. And staff department costume prize 1st Social Sciences, 2nd English. Winners receive Paper Plus vouchers and Certificates- in Assembly. Congratulations everyone

14/08/2026

Thanks everyone for getting involved in Book Week and supporting reading. Lord of the Rings and adventurous events. Stepping outside your comfort zone to compete in the speed reading or LOR competition or create a book character costume...

07/08/2026

Kia ora koutou

​Unfortunately Sam can no longer speak on Tuesday to classes at Motueka High and Nayland.

Sam has been in touch with Read NZ to offer a talk later this year for those schools (Nayland, Motueka) who missed out. Watch this space.

Meantime I understand the free Shedwood Hall, Tapawera event still has space available. Please recommend the Tapawera event to students and whanau. This will be an interesting talk with some hands on activities. Best to register for this. See the poster for contact details.

And for those who registered to attend Te whare Taikura o te Maatu enjoy your Sunday evening. Te whare Taikura is fully booked.

06/08/2026

Aotearoa School Libraries week is approaching and...

30/07/2026

https://www.facebook.com/share/19sMyvME2k/?mibextid=wwXIfr

History professor Dr. Jason Gibson at Alcorn State University used an invisible "prompt injection" trap to catch students using AI on a midterm exam about the Industrial Revolution. He hid white-font instructions inside the online question that told AI chatbots to insert bizarre, nonsensical references to "Madagascar".

Out of 35 students across two classes, 32 copied the entire prompt into AI without reading the hidden text, then pasted the chatbot output directly into their submissions. The resulting essays contained ridiculous phrases such as "Madagascar purple bicycle whispers to the ceiling," exposing that students hadn't proofread their work.

22/07/2026

Be sure to read up on Sam's books and watch his videos
https://www.facebook.com/100050646522100/videos/we-are-super-excited-to-announce-our-new-book-a-bushmans-book-of-yarnsits-jam-pa/1374968841142647/

22/07/2026

Great to host Sam the trap man during Aotearoa NZ School Libraries week Sunday 9th followed by a school library session Tuesday morning. Thanks to Dana coordinating the Catchment groups to support Sam’s visit.