From the Acting Teacher-Librarian

The library has recently become a hub for intense creativity and colour thanks to the privilege of housing an exhibition of Year 12’s amazing major artworks. That, alongside the Creative Artist of the Week, Textiles and Year 8 poetry displays, plus our 'Write a Book in a Day' event - involving teams of nearly seventy of our students from Years 7-11 writing and illustrating books to be sent to children in hospitals throughout Australia as part of supporting the Kids’ Cancer Project, means we’ve had the honour of partaking in and showcasing a hive of creative making! 

And on the making theme, along with continuing Friday Fun and Games… we’re introducing Monday Maker lunchtime sessions in Term 4 to provide opportunities for students to further creatively engage and learn new skills in a relaxed space where they can converse and connect. Thanks to the generosity of various staff members freely offering their time and talents, our students will have the opportunity to learn to dismantle and reassemble laptops, make polymer jewellery, crochet their first granny square to make a blanket, create and decorate inspirational journals, and more. We’ll be creating a schedule of session events to let you know what’s on from Monday to Monday.

A big focus in the library is to keep expanding upon the desire and vision for it to operate as a warm beating heart for our school and be a sanctuary for student learning and wellbeing. It continues to be a pleasure to see how many of our students are engaging with the space. We love hearing requests and suggestions for books and activities and encourage teachers and classes to use the space - be it for silent reading or research lessons, or simply for a change of classroom scene; as our sign on the front desk says: jingi walla - everyone is welcome!

Ms Melaina Faranda
Acting Teacher-Librarian