Library News

What a great year 2022 has been in the library! Ms Shields and I have loved being your new library team and working together to look at ways that we can reinvigorate the library and make sure that it's a great learning space for everyone! 

This year has seen us work to modernise our fiction and non-fiction collections, and we're really proud of how much our Indigenous Studies collection has grown and includes so much information about our local area. 

Ms Shields has been working hard with the Gamilaraay language group as well and has created many wonderful new resources to help the language learners have fun and learn so much. I really enjoyed running the Indigenous Literacy Day activities in term 3 and having so many classes come in and explore both the complexities and varieties within our Indigenous Languages, as well as working through a wide range of texts that further develop our appreciation and understanding of poetry, visual texts and biographies by Indigenous creators.  

The library has also been fortunate to have some amazing new titles sent to us by The Children’s Bookshop throughout the year and it has been exciting to see a broad range of new texts arriving. The fiction section has also been expanded with a broad range of new titles, and it’s been so heartwarming to see so many students excitedly coming to the library to grab new titles off the shelves and putting in their feedback and requests for what else they’d like to read! We’ve also expanded our collection of magazines for a wide range of interests, from New Scientist to Frankie and even fishing and motorcycles, so there’s something new for everyone all the time.

The library also continues to be open for a safe and welcoming space during every break, and we have a great group of students coming together to create and build lego, read, relax, catch up on homework, and peruse the shelves! 

Thanks for a great year, and I look forward to another great one in 2023!

Mrs Harris.