Parent Survey

This post is mainly for our parents.  Please ask your parents to fill it out this national online survey they haven’t already.

A coalition of Australian school library associations are asking parents to answer this brief survey to garner support for the continuance of both school Libraries and Teacher librarians to manage the libraries and all resources needed by staff and students. https://goo.gl/forms/qlAFLSfqSfK6KrdI2

As background reading to the issue, there’s an 5min podcast https://goo.gl/XxewTm and a flyer: https://goo.gl/aYNsJo

Thanks if you can possibly respond to this national survey and pass the survey on please, to other parents in both state and private schools? 

Students, you’ll have your turn later this month. Our school is sending out a survey and is interested in your feedback about the kinds of tools, furniture and services that you would like to see in our school Information Centre.

Displays

Each semester, we are fortunate to be able to access the regional loans boxes from the Qld Museum.  A big thank you to Justin at KickArts regional gallery for circulating these specimens to schools and community groups.

The Marsupial Lion box was pretty cool. We learned that Thylacoleo was nothing like the Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacine) or the Dingo. It was in a class of it’s own. The box included casts of both a skull and a realistic iteration of the lion’s head.

Apparently the Lion participated in a race with a Cheetah and the Cheetah won.  The lion said, “You cheated”. The Cheetah replied,  “Nah, you lion.”  LOL

Seriously, we have enjoyed some great displays this year.  Thank you Justin, KickArts and of course the Queensland Museum.

Official Farewell for Mrs Anderson

Presentation night featured a special guest we hadn’t seen around since April.  Mrs Anderson officially resigned after over 20 yrs service to Smithfield State High School – the last 6 years as our Library Officer.  She was among 3 senior staff members who will be leaving the school after this year. Thank you Mrs Anderson for your diligence, grace and wit.  You are still missed after all these months.  Mrs Anderson is pictured with Mrs Harrison (middle) and Mrs Joyce (far right).