- Polo Park Middle
- Library-Media Center
Library-Media Center
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Polo Park Middle School Library Media Center Mission:
The Polo Park Middle School Library Media Center is committed to providing its patrons with a learning environment that promotes respect, independent thinking, and individuality.
The Library Media Center is dedicated to designing and maintaining a library media program that supports, complements, and expands the instructional program of the school.The Library Media Center:
- Supports the implementation and integration of the Florida State Standards.
- Provides materials and lessons that support career and college readiness.
- Provides and promotes extensive use of resources in multiple formats that are designed to meet the needs of all learners in all aspects of the curriculum.
- Provides a learning environment which promotes inquiry.
- Stimulates intellectual curiosity.
- Encourages pleasure reading.
- Develops diverse interests for the enjoyment of lifelong readers and learners.
- Provides and promotes instruction to prepare students to become independent users of libraries and information resources.
For questions or more information regarding our Library-Media Center, please contact our Media Specialist, Mrs. Nora Bernstein.
Library Media Center Hours
The Media Center is open in the morning on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursday, and Fridays at 8:45 a.m. If going to the media center, students need to remain there until the 9:10 a.m. bell. The Media Center is closed on Tuesday mornings for Parent/Teacher Conferences.
Reading Programs
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Reading Counts
Reading Counts is a commercial program supported by the Division of Curriculum. The Department of Educational Technology maintains the technical implementation of the program. Reading Counts! Disclaimer Scholastic Reading Counts! is a commercial reading motivational program. The Polo Park list of Scholastic Reading Counts! Quizzes spans reading material for grades 3 through 12 including beginning to adult readers; titles on this list were selected by Scholastic Inc. not by the School District. Inclusion of a title on this list does not indicate a recommendation or endorsement of the book’s content by the School District of Palm Beach County. Certain books may not be age appropriate when the student is reading at an advanced level and may not meet District criteria within SDPBC Policy 8.12. Further, the Scholastic Reading Counts! quiz list of books should not be considered an exclusive reading list from which students must select their books to read. No school classroom or library media center has all the books found on the Scholastic Reading Counts! Quiz list. District purchased library media center and supplemental classroom instructional materials, on the other hand, adhere to the selection criteria found in SDPBC Policy 8.12.
The Reading Counts program is used to measure word counts for our Half Way There Club, our Million Word Club, and to verify students success for our SSYRA Ice Cream Sundae Party.
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Halfway There Club
At Polo Park, our students reach the Half Way There Club status when they have read 500 thousand words or more based on Reading Counts. Students recieve a certificate and an invitation to our end of the year luncheon. Other forms of recognition when possible. Their achievements are also recognized at the grade level end of the year award ceremonies.
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Million Word Club
At Polo Park, our students reach the Million Word Club status when they have read one million words or more based on Reading Counts. Students receive a certificate and an invitation to our end of the year luncheon. Other forms of recognition will be presented, when possible. Their achievements are also recognized at the grade level end of the year award ceremonies.
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Sunshine State Young Readers Award Program
The SSYRA program is sponsored by FAME and the Florida Department of Education. See the link on our page under News to see a list of this years' SSYRA books.
At Polo Park Middle School, we participate in the Sunshine State Young Readers Award (SSYRA) program in a number of ways.
- We encourage the students to read the books selected by the SSYRA committee for summer reading as well as throughout the year.
- We celebrate student success through our SSYRA contests, SSYRA voting, and SSYRA ice cream sundae party.
- We participate in the Battle of the Books, based on the current SSYRA books and sponsored by our school district.
