PROGRAMS:

Library           
Every school needs good library resources to reinforce reading skills taught in the classroom, to provide opportunities for reading enjoyment and to make available research materials for special interests and projects.

Each year we add new titles to our library in an effort to provide a wider range of reading materials and to update our current material.

Our focus in adding to our library is in the areas of 1) Canadian Author  2) Island History   3) biographies   and  4) science.

Reading is basic to the success of the child in school and in later years.  Reading at home for enjoyment is important.  Try to ensure that your child is reading material suitable for his/her interests and abilities.

Even though our library boasts over 3300 titles, our school staff strongly recommends that all children visit the O'Leary Branch of the P.E.I. Libraries on a regular basis for additional reading material.

Our library is now automated using the Microcat system.  This program allows for storage and circulation of all library titles.  Books are checked out and returned to the library by means of a computer.

In conjunction with the library, we have a computer lab consisting of 23 computers complete with hard drives and keyboards.  These computers are networked and have Internet access and are connected it a network printer.   All computers have CD capacity.  The software includes Microsoft Bookshelf (includes a dictionary, Columbia Encyclopedia and a thesaurus), Grolier Encyclopedia (all 21 volumes), Encarta, a world atlas, and Compton's Type to Learn II and the new Canadian Encyclopedia and several word processing programs.  We also have 386 computers for use in some classrooms.  Recently the school has purchased a scanner to aid both students and teachers , also a digital camera and colour printer.