Library

Congratulations to our major prize winners in the Book Week competitions! 

1st prize in the ‘Treasure Hunt’ competition went to Arjun Gurtu (7M), who won a $30 Dymocks giftcard, while 2nd prize went to Lexie Hyatt (7B), who won a large box of Favourites chocolates. 

1st prize in the ‘Where in the World…?’ competition went to Charlotte Neely (7G), who won a $30 Dymocks giftcard, while 2nd prize went to Caelan Jones (11B), who won a large box of Favourites chocolates. 

Library staff and English teachers are now recruiting for Year 8 Readers’ Cup. We are looking for teams of 4 students from each house to compete in the competition, which will take place next term. Students will be required to read three set books (Bite Risk by S.J. Wills, The Road to Winter by Mark Smith, and Skeleton Creek by Patrick Carman). We will have our first meeting soon! 

The Premier’s Reading Challenge has now ended – we had more than 25 students complete the Challenge successfully. They will be given a pizza lunch and go into the draw to win a $30 Dymocks giftcard toward the end of term. 

Book of the Week

Tasting Light: ten science fiction stories to rewire your perceptions

Edited by A.R. Capetta & Wade Roush

Tasting Light is a collection of 10 short stories by different authors. Most are written about teenagers and have a science fiction or futuristic theme. 

The stories here are extremely diverse – some explore a distant future where humans live on city-like colonies in space, but most take place on Earth in the near-future, where dramatic changes in a technology have drastic consequences on human life. You might think that technological advancement would take center stage, but they are very human in nature. Friendship, love, the longing for connection, and the thirst for knowledge, are strong themes in all of these stories. There is also strong gender diversity represented in many of these stories. 

Tasting Light is truly a mixed bag – you may not like every single story, but you may find some that you love, and it may open up your mind in ways you never expected! 

Ms Winfield