LIBRARY
STUDENTS NEED SCHOOL LIBRARIES
- Did you know… that our school library supports your child to engage with a diverse range of books to extend their imagination and develop a lifelong love of reading?
- Did you know… that school libraries are responsive and collaborative learning spaces that provide students with access to a wide range of resources that are relevant and appropriate to their learning needs?
- Did you know… that school libraries support your child to reach their potential by teaching them how to become capable researchers and to navigate the world of online information and fake news?
- Did you know... that teacher librarians hold specialised qualifications as both a teacher and a librarian? Library staff are trained to support keen and reluctant, successful and struggling learners.
Students need school libraries. If you are keen to ensure that EVERY child in Australia has access to a high quality school library, check out the information available at
https://studentsneedschoollibraries.org.au
READING RECOMMENDATIONS
Try the following site for ideas on what to read next including:
- Inky awards
- CBCA awards
- LGBTIQA+
- How to apply to be on the Readings book shop Teen Advisory board
- Series
- Banned books
- Film and TV adaptations
- Indigenous Australian young adult books
- Game of loans - reading challenge
- Feminism
- Non - fiction
- and heaps more
https://sites.google.com/footscray.vic.edu.au/reading-recommendations/home
WRITING COMPETITIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES
For information on lots of exciting writing opportunities including:
- A new anthology open for submissions from all writers in Australia who identify as disabled due 31 May
- Kill Your Darlings school writing prize due 28 June
- The John Marsden and Hachette prize due 30 June
- Insight Creative Writing Competition due 16 August
- Red Room poetry object
- Poetry in First Languages
- iSAY student competition DFAT
- Check out this site -
- https://sites.google.com/footscray.vic.edu.au/writingcompetitions/home
RECONCILIATION WEEK 27 MAY - 3 JUNE
The following is from Reconciliation Australia’s Chief Executive Officer, Karen Mundine:
“Reconciliation is ultimately about relationships and like all effective relationships the one between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other Australians must be grounded in truth,” she said. “There can be no trust without an honest, open conversation about our history.”
Ms Mundine said that the results of the 2018 Australian Reconciliation Barometer, Reconciliation Australia’s biennial community attitudes survey, showed that Australians were firmly onside with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s calls for a comprehensive process of truth-telling about Australia’s colonial history.
“Our nation’s past is reflected in the present, and the legacy of past traumas will continue to play out in our future unless we heal historical wounds,” said Ms Mundine. “According to the 2018 Australian Reconciliation Barometer 80 per cent of Australians believe it is important to undertake formal truth telling processes.”
“It encourages me that Australians are ready to come to terms with our past as a crucial step towards a unified future, in which we understand, value and respect each other.”
During NRW, Australians from all backgrounds will also be inspired to ‘walk together with courage’ as they contribute to building stronger relationships based on historical acceptance.
“Whether you’re engaging in challenging conversations or unlearning and relearning what you know, this journey does require all of us to walk together with courage towards a unified future,” Ms Mundine said.
“Truth telling is not about engendering guilt or shame in non-Indigenous Australians but about addressing past injustices and serving as an “end-point to a history of wrongdoing”, allowing healing and for relationships to start anew.”
Ms Mundine said such national dialogues help progress acceptance of the Uluru Statement from the Heart’s calls for a First Nations constitutional voice in parliament and a formal process of truth telling.
“These processes are not a symbolic act, but a practical process of healing that is important to all Australians.”
Our library currently has the following display for Reconciliation Week.
WILLY LIT FEST
SATURDAY 15 AND SUNDAY 16 JUNE, 2019
The 16th Williamstown Literary Festival takes a bold new step into unknown territory. Moving beyond the comfort zone, we challenge our status quo, make our own luck, we choose our own adventure. In 2019 we’ll be hosting robust discussions asking how we are travelling as a nation, what is the heart of the matter, whom do we trust? Amid a cloud of fake news and opinion as fact we will seek the truth and get to the nub. 2019 offers some of the brightest titles publishing has seen in Australia for many years. Voices are rising amid the clamour to define and clarify meaning and matter from intimation and inference.
We will host and celebrate these voices in politics, the media, from screen to page, from true crime fetishism to real life drama, love, romance, survivors and champions, the young adults and the younger still; from across the country alongside the best of the west. It’s time to choose your adventure. Who will you follow? In 2019 we are delighted to announce veteran journalist and ABC stalwart Kerry O’Brien will headline the program along with our very own Andy Griffiths and the return of the beloved Stereo Stories.
https://www.willylitfest.org.au/
