The McAuley Library has been a busy hub during Term 2 with many of our students testing their researching skills using our library resources.
The Year 7 students learnt how to find bibliographic information from sources while researching on Ancient Egypt for Humanities and precious resources for Science. Our targeted print collection along with curated selections of online, visual and multimodal resources are available through LibGuides to our students for their research. As a result, we saw the Year 7 students grow into more confident library users and researchers during the term.
The Year 8 students delved into life in the Middle Ages. It was wonderful to see the students turn their research into supporting arguments to demonstrate their understanding of medieval society. The Year 8 Humanities classes consolidated their skills while researching an important historical figure from the Renaissance and Reformation period. They built on their referencing and citation skills while some students challenged themselves to use in-text citations for their slideshow images. There was some really fantastic work from our Year 8 students this term.
The Year 9 students demonstrated their advanced research and citation skills while using the Library’s print and digital resources to find primary and secondary sources on the 19th century gold rush period in Australia. Some students used the digitised primary sources from the State Library of Victoria and TROVE to find original maps of Victorian goldfields, newspaper articles on the Eureka stockade and diaries of people who lived at the diggings. It is exciting to see the growth of our students’ skills and abilities as they progress through the school.
During Term 2, Year 10 to 12 students have been utilising library resources, services and spaces to support independent, small group and whole class learning activities. Students applied their research and information skills to a variety of learning activities such as WWII and rights and freedoms history research, environmental management and developing countries geography investigations, point of view English oral presentations and Business Management proposals.
