From the Acting Teacher-Librarian

Last week our library was privileged to house a wonderful NAIDOC display, gathered and curated by Lexe Busbridge, with the theme of: Always was, always will be. It featured indigenous art and beautifully crafted tools, instruments, carrying vessels, woven baskets and bags, ochre and bushfoods. Some of the Year 11 boys tried some particularly sharp on the tongue bushtucker (although I personally enjoy the taste, it was comical seeing their expressions – an acquired taste?) and fragrant lemon myrtle leaves from the school’s bushtucker garden eventually found their way into our teapot.

The library is also a treasure house for ways of knowing and a repository for so much human curiosity, passion and wonder, all channelled into the telling of stories, collecting and communicating information, and speculating as to the mysterious possibilities of what it is to be an inhabitant of this incredible planet. This week we bumped in a new display for the 2020 National Science Week with the theme of - Deep Blue: innovation for the future of our oceans. Which brings me to jellyfish – did you know some of jellyfish are immortal? Seriously, technically, scientifically immortal?

Ms Melaina Faranda
Acting Teacher-Librarian