The Library is open for class visits and at lunchtimes Monday - Thursday.

Coming: Week 4, term 2, 19 - 22 May 2025
Books, posters, stationery and more for sale at our pop up book store in the Library.
Look out for competitions and activities!

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Welcome to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. You're a brand new student to Hogwarts...
Write a diary entry describing how your first day at Hogwarts went ...
Entries due: Tuesday 13 May 2025
Winner will receive a $20 voucher to spend at the MRI Book Fair

Illustrate a scene from a Harry Potter story.
Entries due to the Library: Tuesday 13 May 2025
Winner will receive a $20 voucher to spend at the MRI Book Fair

Scholastic Book Club #3 is open for ordering. Online orders via this link or by downloading the Book Club app called LOOP. To find our school, search for MOUNT ROSKILL INT. Orders due by Wednesday 7 May 2025.

Puketāpapa Kāhui Ako shared waiata project: He Kākano Āhau

Looking for something to read and can't get to the Library? Here are links to some mostly free online ebook sources.

Term 2's topic is Conflict: A struggle for land and sovereignty

Books, video links and other resources collected in our library on the New Zealand Land Wars

Documentaries on the New Zealand wars of: Ruapekapeka, Waitara, Tainui, Wairau and Tauranga Moana.

In the 1840s and 1860s conflict over sovereignty and land led to battles between government forces and some iwi Māori. The largest campaign was the clash between the Kīngitanga and the Crown. Land confiscations to punish iwi that fought against the Crown left a legacy of grievance. This resource from the Encyclopedia of New Zealand details the conflicts by region.

Te Pūtake o te Riri, He Rā Maumahara is the Māori name for our latest national day, the commemoration of the New Zealand Wars and conflicts, held each year on 28 October.
Te Pūtake o Te Riri also means the reason or source of anger or rage.

See the history of Māori arrivals from 1200, European arrivals from 1642 and the signing of He Whakaputanga from 1835 to 1839.

A five-part series made in 1998, The New Zealand Wars took a new look at the history of Māori vs Pākehā armed conflict. It was presented by historian James Belich.

Governor George Grey send troops south from Auckland, invading the Waikato. But Kingitanga fight back and a new phase of warfare begins in New Zealand that would see thousands of lives lost.

Religious movements such as Pai Mārire & Ringatū arise to oppose settler expansion. While British troops withdraw, local militia take up the fight and we see atrocities committed by all sides.

This website presents aspects of the New Zealand Wars fought between Māori and the Crown throughout most of the 19th century, emphasising Māori histories of these engagements in the global context of wars fought against native peoples.

A collection from the Auckland War Memorial Museum of photos taken of troops, activities and the aftermath of war during New Zealand land conflicts.

The stories of New Zealand's wars: the Musket Wars, Wairau Incident, War in Taranaki, War in Waikato, The Northern War, War in Tauranga.

See major Crown acquisitions since 1840, including confiscations after the New Zealand Wars and peak Native Land Court era.

For Taranaki Māori, 5 November 1881 is known as 'Te Rā o te Pāhua' or the 'Day of Plunder'. The invasion of Parihaka — te pāhuatanga — happened when around 1500 armed constabulary and volunteers led by the Native Affairs Minister, John Bryce, invaded Parihaka.

An old documentary explaining Parihaka through art work and photos from the local museum, Puke Ariki, Taranaki.

The National Library has a collection of images and stories to explore on Parihaka.

What has shaped New Zealand over time?

Formerly an area of swamp, quarries and scrubland, the Auckland suburb of Mt Roskill was developed after 1945 as a major state housing suburb.

Te Tiriti - Aotearoa History Show, Episode 4 of the Aotearoa History Show is on te Tiriti.

Toby Morris comic on the Treaty of Waitangi

Te Tiriti o Waitangi, New Zealand’s founding document, was meant to be a partnership between Māori and the British Crown. Although it was intended to create unity, different understandings of the treaty, and breaches of it, have caused conflict. From the 1970s the general public gradually came to know more about the treaty, and efforts to honour the treaty and its principles expanded.

This docudrama follows an imaginary news reporter who travels back in time to cover the days leading up to the Treaty of Waitangi’s signing on 6 February 1840.

How do you: Identify fake news? Recognise content that is biased? Understand what reliable information means? Check out these tools and resources.

Rewordify is an online program that assists reading and learning by simplifying difficult English, for faster comprehension, and teaching words, for building a better vocabulary.

A great starting point for science topics and concepts.

On DigitalNZ, you'll find videos, newspapers, maps, photographs, audio recordings, artworks, news reports, and many other kinds of digital content from over 200 different organisations all around Aotearoa.

The Topic Explorer helps you find quality, curated resources on a range of topics to support and inspire inquiry. Each topic features a carefully selected set of national and international resources, including websites, images, videos, books and more.

Want to understand Aotearoa history? The Aotearoa History Show is for you... Check out this programme of the story of New Zealand and its people from its geological origins to modern day, hosted by William Ray & Leigh-Marama McLachlan.

An audio/podcast version of the story of New Zealand and its people from its geological origins to modern day, hosted by William Ray & Leigh-Marama McLachlan.

Are you interested in chemistry? Then try the Elemental podcast: A journey through the periodic table of elements, produced by RNZ. 5-10 minute sessions on each element of the periodic table, its history, application and miscellanous facts.

If you have a research question, and you've searched all your resources, contacted your teacher and Whaea Rachel and you still don't have the answer, you can contact the National Librarians and ask them for help. The Librarians are available between 10am-6pm.

Everyone should have membership with Auckland Libraries. It is free to join for Auckland residents, check the link to join up now. You are able to borrow ebooks and audiobooks without leaving home!

When you choose a book, you can log in with your library card number, and can start reading in your browser. When you have joined Auckland Libraries, and started reading books, you do have the option of downloading an app, such as Overdrive or Libby so that your book becomes a bit more portable, especially on a phone - Auckland Libraries has a guide for the apps. These apps can be adjustable to display dyslexic fonts, large print and lighting.

You can read freely and anonymously on their site, or create an account to keep an ongoing bookshelf. And there are books from all over the world (you can even search by countries on the globe).

Many books, most of them classics but freely available, and downloadable for ereader devices or onscreen.

Access to a colelction of selected reference e-books containing biography, literature, science, history, social sciences and more. Accessible from within the school network.

Still reeling from the loss of his mother, Jonas escapes into his vivid daydreams. After making his way through a portal in his grandmother’s strange painting, he finds himself lost in a fantasy world, unable to return. A webcomic.

House cats Elvis, Puck, and Lupin report on such breaking news stories as “The people are missing!” and “There’s a box with a towel inside it on the kitchen table.” Select ‘Past Reports’ for a list of topics or click the random button you will find at the bottom of each comic.

Though being the new kid is never easy, it’s especially hard for Peter, an average kid whose classmates include a mummy, a pumpkinhead, and a skeleton. A webcomic.

This webcomic follows John Egbert, who on his 13th birthday plays a video game that unleashes the apocalypse

Auckland Libraries have a great selection of audiobooks.

Radio NZ's Storytime has a selection of NZ novels and picture book stories you can listen to without needing to join up or download apps.

Watch comedians, the PM and TV people read NZ bedtime stories at TVNZ. Maybe you could try and sit down with the younger people in your family for storytime.

Lit2Go offers audiobooks, plays, short stories, and poems that have been tailored for use in classrooms. Along with each free audiobook, you’ll get citation information, play time, and word count. Some, like Shakespeare’s Hamlet, have an accompanying PDF that can be used to read-along with the text.

For Sci-Fi readers… Mind Webs was a radio series that began in the 1970s. Over 169 half-hour shows were recorded until the series ended in 1984, of which over 150 shows have been archived and can be accessed.

If you have access to Spotify, check out Spotify’s “Audiobooks” playlist for a list of audiobooks that are always being added to by the service. Spotify is free to listen, or you can go premium if you don’t want the ads.

Short Story Guide is designed to help middle school / high school teachers, students, and reading lovers find the right story and allow them to easily read online short stories free, where possible. It has examples of many types of stories. The stories are listed by theme, note that if the story isn't freely available there is no link.

Who are you? What career might suit you? What interests you? Also resources to develop your financial literacy. How do jobs and money work?

A video on the science of character.

Take the VIA character test in 15 minutes or less and reveal your greatest strengths.

Futurist Mike Walsh believes the really important aspect of contemplating likely futures, is not so much when technology changes, but when people change. He says it is critical that we think about the role of education in building the society of the future, and the generation we should be paying attention to are the very young, who intuitively understand the use of technology and who will grow up with a very different perspective on the

Career inspiration and job hunting support.

CareerQuest takes just 15 minutes. Complete the 78 question photo quiz and
CareerQuest will suggest job ideas matched to your interests.

A range of informative clips from the NZ TV series 'Just the Job'. Videos are arranged under their vocational pathway to give you information on different careers.

Get insight into different career journeys, hear about the kinds of skills that are being looked for when recruiting and some all-round helpful advice from those already on their career path

Each webinar designed to introduce you to a different industry or career pathway that you can explore.

A series of articles looking at the types of jobs of the future and what to consider.

When contemplating your career plans, focus not only on the kind of work that fits you well now but also on what offers a path to the best jobs of the future.

Topic explorer: Explore the history and world of currency and learn how to spend or bank your money. Understand concepts such as saving, inflation, investment, budgeting, profit, loss, interest, EFTPOS, credit cards and why to be wary of loan sharks.

A short animated video about how money works - its functions and the role the Reserve Bank plays in it.

Within school, you do not need passwords to access the EPIC databases, including Encyclopedia Britannica. Outside of the school network (when you are at home) you will need a log in and password. Please contact your teacher or the Librarian for the log in details.

Contact Whaea Rachel by email if you have a question about any of these links, or have suggestions for other links.