Resource Centre

NSW Premiers Reading Challenge

There is still time to join the NSW Premiers  Reading Challenge. 

The challenge aims to encourage a love of reading for leisure and pleasure in students, and to enable them to experience quality literature. It is not a competition, rather an individual challenge for students to read,  read more and to read more widely.

The Premiers Reading Challenge is is open for students from Years 7 -10. The total number of books to be read is twenty, with ten from the Premiers Reading Challenge list and ten personal choice books. Student entries close on Friday 23 August.

Journey Book Club

Students who are part of the Journey Book Club will meet together at lunch before the end of term to discuss their current read 'The Upwelling'. This fantasy debut novel by First Nations writer Lystra Rose is a fascinating deep dive into the traditional culture of the Yugambeh people, proudly showcasing their language and practices throughout the narrative. 

Written in three distinct voices, the story begins in contemporary times with teenage surfer Kirra, who is still grieving the loss of her brother in a surfing accident many years prior. During a surf competition, she is tossed by a barrel wave and washes up on a beach in the past, on the lands of a traditional clan. There, she interrupts a dolphin-calling ceremony being undertaken by a young man, Narn. Kirra is welcomed into the clan and looked after by the girl Narn loves, Tarni, whose skill is an ability to interpret and speak many different languages. Kirra’s power is that her dreams can see the future. These three teenagers will need to work together to save the future of the world from annihilation.

The clan understand that Kirra’s arrival is significant, because on her surfboard (they call it a flat canoe) is an ancient symbol that she drew of the god, N’gian. The clan is at a crucial moment, threatened from within by a traitor and from without, as a nearby tribe has harnessed the power of a dark spirit, the Malung, that could prove calamitous.

This is a novel for any reader who loves fantasy, and for readers seeking to understand more about Aboriginal stories, languages, and values. Recommended for young people 13 to 15 years.

If you are interested in joining the Journey Book Club see Mrs Wheeler in the Resource Centre.

2024 Book Week - Reading is Magic

The theme for 2024 is 'Reading is Magic'. The College will celebrate Book Week in Week 5 next term, with activities throughout the week commencing on Monday 19 August. To conclude the week, students are encouraged to dress up on Friday 23rd August - start planning your costume!

Lunchtime Resource Centre Activities

A number of activities run throughout lunchtime in the Resource Centre.

Students have just completed a 1000 piece Alice in Wonderland jigsaw puzzle by Vizzles. Once the puzzle is pieced together there are a number of riddles that can be solved.

During the lunchtime art sessions students have been busy creating using cardboard boxes and the College Makedo kit.

Mrs Sheryl Wheeler | Resource Centre Manager