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Book Week magic

With Book Week coming up in Week 6 there is a real buzz in the Library. We have just taken delivery of a wonderful and varied assortment of fiction books for our students’ reading delight. We are extremely excited about these books and the prospect of finding new, exciting fiction for us to read too. Planning of magical Book Week activities is well under way and our Student Guild are working on their contributions to that week. As they say, watch this space!

Mrs Sykiotis prepared new resources for the Wider Reading program. The selection of books for Years 7, 8 and 9 is themed for Science Week. 

Last week we published a comprehensive LibGuide for ATAR Modern History on Europe post 1945. The LibGuides for Our Place and Politics and Law were updated with new information about Closing the Gap, published two days ago.  Furthermore, reporting on the appointment of a new Minister for Indigenous Australians, Malarndirri McCarthy, after the resignation of Linda Burney from federal politics, has provided good current resources for our students. We also added many new resources to our ClickView library. We can access free-to-air television programs and many documentaries and current affair programs are useful resources for our teachers and students.

2025 Booklists

At this point in the year, it is time to start thinking about 2025 and booklists. More information about the publication of the lists will be available next term.

ONLINE ORDERING & DELIVERY:Online return date for parents to order – Friday, 27 December 2024. Home delivery of orders placed by the return date – Will be delivered by 28 January 2025.

Co-curricular clubs

Co-curricular clubs are busy in the Library:

The Year 9 Lego Club has completed the Space Shuttle and is now constructing Technic Lego, the Audi RS Q e-tron.  (Read more about this on our St George's Superstars page at the end of this newsletter). The Year 8 group are still working on their mammoth Star Wars project. Puzzle Club meets on Tuesday, Philosophy Club on Wednesday. 

Philosophy Club welcomed new members and a very interesting discussion about ethics and AI ran for over an hour last week. 

Homework Club runs Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday after school in the Library, with teaching staff on hand to help students with their work until 4.40pm.

My own reading has been varied. I have enjoyed one of our Special Collection books, Fog a Dox, by Bruce Pascoe. This is a gentle novel about a domestic (sic) dingo-dog who rears a litter of fox pups. This random act of kindness ultimately brings joy to a young character suffering from a terminal illness. Shortlisted for the Writers’ Prize 2024, The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright, explores the lives of three generations of women. The magic of poetry and the damage caused by abandonment underpins the shifting narrative voices. In a contrasting shift of genre, I read one of our new “teen” fiction romances, Megan Williams’ Let’s Never Speak of This Again. The drama of friendship in all its fragile complexity for young people plays out against a backdrop of tragedy and remorse. For something lighter and in the spirit of supporting Australian writers, I bought and read journalist Tim Ayliffe’s new publication, The Greater Good.

Having seen him interviewed on the ABC, I was happy to start a new series of thrillers. Entertaining and readable, this novel is now on the shelves of our library. While Ayliffe’s writing cannot compete with John le Carre or Graham Greene’s work, it was still good to read a thriller set in a familiar context. Together let us read.

Dr Annette Pedersen

Library Coordinator