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Georgia Bicego, Year 8

Back Row: Abigail Stagg, Chloe Kim, Charlise Moodie, Grace Scott, Amelie Matthews, Emma Eaton Front Row: Georgia Bicego, Zara Dimovski, Sophie Toma, Katie Sung, Year 8

Abigail Stagg, Charlise Moodie, Amelie Matthews and Katie Sung, Year 8

2020 was a really great year for the Library. Between Write a Book in a Day (WABIAD), Book Week and the introduction of Wheelers Audiobooks and eBooks, it was a jam-packed year!

This year, for the first time in years, students participating in WABIAD were required to fundraise for the Kids’ Cancer Project. This produced some incredible innovation, with the year groups coming up with a fundraising plan and then carrying it out. The Year 7 girls held a book sale, whilst the Year 8 girls had a week-long raffle, the Year 9 Pet and Favourite Book Competition was certainly cute, and the Year 10 girls sold wellbeing products on the Pymarket. Fundraising was a real success, as our girls raised $1,200, and more than $538,000 was raised across Australia for the Kids’ Cancer Project! During WABIAD, students gathered at the Conde Library to receive the parameters for their books. They dealt with these different topics admirably and managed to finish their books by the end of the school day. Well done, girls!

The theme for this year was ‘Curious Creatures, Wild Minds’, and Pymble students certainly delivered! Book Week this year was unfortunately postponed from Term 1 due to COVID-19, and due to later health restrictions, we were not able to hold many of our usual events. However, we held several week-long competitions: Guess the Book and Match the Teacher to their Favourite Book. We also had a photo opportunity for girls to come in and take a ‘Curious Creatures, Wild Minds’ themed photo. On Tuesday and Wednesday lunchtimes, the Library hosted a viewing of the wonderful film, Night at the Museum, complete with popcorn and chips! On Thursday at lunchtime, Pymble girls participated in a scavenger hunt, running around the school to hunt all the clues down. On Friday at lunchtime, to conclude Book Week, trivia was held in the Library, where we had a fabulous turn-out. Book Week was a success, and all we can say is bring on Book Week 2021!

At the end of 2019, Wheelers Audiobooks and eBooks were introduced to the Library. This was an invaluable resource during quarantine, as students were able to continue reading new and interesting books even at home. We had some incredible borrowing stats this year: more than 3,000 books in the past 12 months! What was also very pleasing was how this borrowing kept up, even when students were back at school. Alexandra Johnson, Captain of Library