Edition Six 20 MAY 2022
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FORTNIGHTLY NEWS AND EVENTS FOR ST GEORGE’S PARENTS
From the Principal Tina Campbell
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.” Franz Kafka With the launch of The Laurence Library this year on Level 2, Dr Annette Pedersen and I want our students to be avid readers. We want them to enjoy the pleasure and rigour of a great text. We want St George’s students to be excited to read and to love the silence and solitude of reading a brilliant novel. It is by reading that we begin to open our minds to a world of possibilities and hopefully become more critical, creative, and curious.
When we share our reading journey with others, such as through a class reading the same text or through a book club, as humans we collectively have a sense of connection, we enjoy a shared language with a mutual understanding, and we enjoy the camaraderie of our shared reading experience. Reading a novel together is such a cathartic experience. As our own Laurence Library begins to have more and more books on its shelves available to be borrowed by our students, and as our English classes launch full steam ahead into their wider reading program across Years 7 – 10, I implore all students to begin to challenge themselves to read daily for pleasure, to read to escape and to read texts that make them think. The importance of reading is most definitely coming alive at St George’s.
Reading fuels our imagination and calls upon the reader to create in their own ‘mind’s eye’ the images that are being described by the author within the pages of the text. When we read, each of us will paint a different picture, everyone will see things slightly differently even when we might be reading the same novel. Each character within a novel’s page will look, think, and speak differently depending on our own unique interpretation and vision of the text as its reader.
So, as we head into cooler evenings, I encourage you to get excited about reading too and perhaps even consider reading the same book as your child so that you can immerse yourself in the joy of reading together.
Reading ignites our imagination; it stimulates our memory, and it helps us more easily recall information. It is also a wonderfully accessible tool to calm us down, to reduce our anxieties and to stabilise our emotions. What better way could there be to relax and unwind?
We continue to look forward to a term that is full of events and activities across the School. We have survived NAPLAN Online with 1
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