The PL Duffy Library Resource Centre

The PL Duffy Library in the Senior School is not only a quiet refuge for our community to devour books but it is also an active space that offers numerous co-curricular opportunities and events for our students.

Mrs Bindy Hammond Head of Library and Research

With particular highlights this year including hatching 11 chickens, regular gaming days as well as John Madd the Magician and the Reverend Toddy dazzling the crowds with their magic and side show performances.

BOOK WEEK

The theme for the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book Week was Australia! Story Country and we continued our tradition of dedicating a whole week to celebrating our love of books.

During Book Week we awarded the winners of the Brother Gerry Faulkner Literary Competition with prizes and, like most events in the library, a morning tea. The winner and all the high quality entrants are congratulated on their participation. The winners were:

SENIOR SCHOOL

Winner: Ferry Man by Marcus Caravella (12.2)

Honourable Mention: $1.20 Worth of Home by Tim Ludovico (10.3)

MIDDLE SCHOOL

Winner: The Darkness Cloaked Him by Kinta Pinchin-Yamada (8.2)

Honourable Mention: Ethereal by Samuel Minniti (9.3)

Most Improved: Ethan Sinclair (9.7)

JUNIOR SCHOOL

Winner: Drift’n Round the Corner by Joel Carcich (5G)

Honourable Mention: The Beauty of Nature by Branson May (5W), Life by Nathan Tobin (5W), My Story by Matthew Ryan (4B)

During Book Week, West Australian author and illustrator, James Foley, spent a number of days hosting workshops and sharing his experiences as an author and illustrator with students from Years 7–10. Amongst other insights he explained the process of developing the zombie bunny character from the Children’s book My Dead Bunny. This discussion proved very humorous and informative as his bunny illustrations developed over time. He also spent two lunch times helping students produce their own zombie clay models.

Students also participated in a Design a Book Mark competition. The winning designs have been printed and are in circulation. A big thank you goes to all the boys who submitted designs. The 2016 Book Mark Designers are George Yip (12.8), Mathieu Mai (10.8), Jacob Mangan (9.1), Luke Grattoggi (8.4), Pavel Misiun (8.3), Rory Charles (7.2), Taylor Van Vliet (6B,) James Pampacos (6B), Ted Smith (5G), Harrison Watkins (5G) and Matthew Ryan (4B).

YEAR 7 MORNING TEA

As the Year 7s transition in to the Senior School, the Library, in conjunction with the English staff believe it is

important to engage them as soon as possible in their new library. Therefore, as part of this effort the Middle School Reading Program celebrates consistent readers by hosting a morning tea and awarding certificates and prizes to students for their outstanding reading. This year, 35 boys were given certificates and prizes. Taylor Hannah (7.8) and Callum Lee (7.7) were awarded Dymocks gift cards for reading over 100 books.

The other outstanding readers were:

Benjamin Fels (7.6), Sholto Foss (7.7), Luke Alderslade (7.7), Benjamin Shah (7.6), Matthew Loo (7.1), Jonas Soares Mendes (7.3), Carlos Tan (7.5), Seshan Dharmasundera (7.4), Lachlan Moroney (7.8), Eli Hayes (7.4), Ben Tucker (7.2), Jensen Yeo (7.8), Lachlan Bonwick (7.7), Mitchell McGrath (7.4), Noah McDonald (7.4), Samuel Thorpe (7.7), Fraser O’Sullivan (7.2), Anders Phan (7.5), Christian Silva (7.8), Nicholas Yap (7.7), Nicholas Biundo (7.4), Julian Leone (7.8), Nathan DeFonseka (7.7), Jeremy Clarke (7.8), Jack Le Goueff (7.5), Rafael Sitorus (7.8), Jed Armstrong (7.1), Gabriel Naylor (7.6), Lachlan Eames (7.1), Eli Loveland (7.5), Lucas Siciliano (7.7), Christopher Marchesani (7.1), Francis Moschilla (7.1).

EVENTS

In Term 4 the library hosted members of the Trinity College and wider community in a Conversation with Mitchell Johnson hosted by Humanities teacher, Mr Dustin Aylemore. The event was a great success with Mitchell Johnson successfully launching his first autobiography and was happy to sign books and have photos taken with his fans.

PHILLIP GWYNNE

Author, Phillip Gwynne, gave a presentation to students in Years 7–10 in Term 2. Phillip Gwynne is the author of Swerve, which is studied as part of the Year 9 English program. The students of the Middle School found it thoroughly engaging and inspiring to meet the author of a text that they had studied.

BOOK CLUB

This year our Book Clubs continued to meet every fortnight to share what they are reading and catching up with friends. During Term 4 all the Book Clubs celebrated with a pizza lunch and badge presentation. Joshua Locke (8.3) summed up Book Club with this entertaining rap.

“I like Book Club because of books and tea, I like Book Club because of books we read. Book Club is fun, Hangin’ out with my chums. This was my speech, And now it is done.”

YEAR 11 WITH MRS HAMMOND:

Thomas Cotter (11.4), Jason Gonsalves (11.1), David Adams (11.2), George Kavalam (11.1), Luca Incani (11.2), Ben Pagano (11.3), Daniel Barnes (11.1), Liam Buckley (11.1), Alex Hammond (11.1), Luke Espinoza (11.1), Hector Divinagracia (11.1), Jacob Cowan (11.1), Frasier Sundra (11.7).

YEAR 10 WITH MS MCDOWALL:

David Pham (10.8), Jarrad Scott (10.8), Roman Okely (10.8), Thomas Payne (10.3), Timothy Feasey (10.4), Muhau Maliti (10.1), Alexander Galante (10.6), Basil Gerad Cyril (10.7), Luke Nardelli (10.7), Joshua Reaper (10.4).

YEAR 9 WITH MS MCLEVIE:

Alex Henwood (9.1), Jacob Mangan (9.1), Jaques Mafrica (9.7), Aidan Shea (9.2).

YEAR 8 WITH MS MACKENZIE:

George Hatton (8.3), Joshua Locke (8.3), Joshua Sumich (8.6), Joshua Crevola (8.3), Nikolo Lake (8.6), Ethan Throssell (8.1), Campbell MacLean (8.3), Jonathon Carson (8.6).

Mrs Bindy Hammond

Head of Library and Research