Resource Centre News

It has been another busy week in the Resource Centre with senior students undertaking a variety of research tasks across a range of topic areas, and junior students continuing to read, exchange books, build with Lego and play chess. Most of the new books in our latest display have been borrowed and newly arrived titles have been added, ready for students to enjoy. 

2021 marks twenty years of Reconciliation Australia and almost three decades of Australia’s formal reconciliation process. The Reconciliation Week (27th May – 3rd June) theme for 2021 is:

MORE THAN A WORD.

RECONCILIATION TAKES ACTION.

Reconciliation not only raises awareness and knowledge but urges action to progress the process of advancing reconciliation. The Resource Centre is continuing the focus of Reconciliation Week with a display of fiction and non-fiction literature of some of our First Nations authors and the collection of artefacts gifted by Uncle Michael Lyons.

Years 7, 8, 9 and 10 students have received via email reminders to return or extend any books that they have overdue from the Resource Centre. We ask them to contact the Resource Centre staff if they feel an error has been made, so that the issue is able to be quickly resolved.

‘Here in Australia we’re fortunate enough to have one of the richest and oldest continuing cultures in the world. This is something we should all be proud of and celebrate’ (Professor Tom Calma AO is Co-Chair of Reconciliation Australia, an Aboriginal elder from the Kungarakan tribal group and a member of the Iwaidja tribal group in the NT). 

Dr Sandra Cox-Townend | Teacher Librarian