Library News

TERM FOUR -Edition 9th October 2026

Laptop Chargers and Headphones – Remember your libraries now have laptop chargers AND single sets of headphones available for loan. These can be borrowed from any library desk for part of the day (not overnight) and are scanned onto your student or staff library card – just like a book 😊

Lunchtime Libraries Games – All of our libraries are currently tidying up and taking suggestions for new or replacement items in our games cupboards, please tell us what you would like! Uno is an old time favourite, but have you tried the variations like Uno no Mercy?

Everyday Information – Each library has new activities on their whiteboard each morning!  Guess a 9 letter word (Belinda in Dharnya’s evil streak makes sure this is a brilliant challenge!) work out the answer to a quiz, or a ‘true or false’, or learn a ‘Did you know’ fact.

Each library also has fresh and relevant displays that change all the time – some of these in Bayuna are interactive, have a go to win a lolly! 

Please remember no food or drinks are permitted in the library spaces (water excepted) and avoid using the libraries as a short-cut – this can be very disruptive to classes in the space. Use manners and walk calmy when in GSSC Libraries.

Belinda Recommends – I recently read and adored Waiting for the Storks and Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief by Katrina Nannestad. Both of these consider the children of war, and what it meant to grow up through that trauma. While I highly recommend reading both, todays review is about Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief.

Sasha is just 6 years old when war breaks out in his beloved Russia. Very early on, he is separated from his brave Mama and his sister Yelena. Exhausted and starving, he stumbles through the forest until he comes across a Red Army company who take him under their wing. Over the years, Sasha travels with his new family through Russia, Ukraine, Poland and into Germany as they push the Nazis back. All the while, he is confronted with the devastation the German Army has brought to villages like his, and to families like his.

As the story goes on, Sasha has to grapple with what it means to be an enemy, and how that can possibly sit alongside being a kind boy, a boy who loves to laugh, to help, and to bring joy to the people around him.

Sasha is telling his story from a hospital bed after the war is over, and the way he tells it made me feel as though I was right there with him. I was brought to tears so many times by the enormity of his love and the incredible strength of his character.

Have a great start to term 4! - From – The GSSC Library Team.