Library & Resource Centre 

Today is a wonderful day as we are all together again as a School Community.  It has been far too long!   With our Year 12 cohort now preparing for their exam period, we are very happy to know that Years 7-11 are back to classes as normal.  We here in the Library are more than ready for our day to day experience to include our beautiful staff and students.

Whilst the physical, emotional and spiritual well-being of our students is always our number one priority, we continue to encourage, in the gentlest of ways, the importance of reading in our everyday lives.

I would like to share the following article with you. 

Particularly for our Parents/Guardians it illustrates so vividly why reading is so important for all of us. It is about a five minute read.  Here is a snippet to hopefully encourage you to read the entire article.

“Gaiman then turns to the second key function of literature — its unparalleled ability to foster empathy. In a sentiment that calls to mind Rebecca Solnit’s inspired assertion that “a book is a heart that beats in the chest of another,” he writes:

When you watch TV or see a film, you are looking at things happening to other people. Prose fiction is something you build up from twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks, and you, and you alone, using your imagination, create a world, and people it and look out through other eyes. You get to feel things, visit places and worlds you would never otherwise know. You learn that everyone else out there is a me, as well. You’re being someone else, and when you return to your own world, you’re going to be slightly changed.

Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.”

https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/08/03/neil-gaiman-view-from-the-cheap-seats-reading/

Best wishes to you all for another “re-start” to our final school Term for 2021. I feel that our Topsy-Turvy existence will soon be so much more calm, and peaceful…..keep that hope in your hearts.

Go gently, go well…….again in the words of the incomparable Brene Brown

“Stay awkward, brave and kind.”

Maryanne Gustus 

Library