From the Senior Library

“125 Years in 125 Days” – We have just completed our sixth week of counting down our School’s birthday!

After featuring SCEGGS girls out and about on excursions and field trips last week, this week we have focused on the wonderful classroom activities at SCEGGS, over the decades.

We loved the primary classroom in 1985, showing a television, tape decks and maybe even a record player as teaching tools.

Year 12 English students had an exciting visit from the Sydney Swans players in 1986, to complement their study of The Club by David Williams.

Last week, our featured question regarding the excursion to the Warrumbungles elicited some mixed answers. According to the Archives, it took place in 1975, with the closest guess being 1976. There has also been some debate, on the Old Girls’ Facebook page, about the identity of the students so we will keep you posted if we arrive at any definite conclusions!

One of this week’s photographs, from the Archives, shows video equipment being used in the classroom. SCEGGS was one of the very early adopters of this technology for teaching and learning.

On our Senior Library page, on Cognito, we have links showing our countdown. Scroll down and click on the “Celebrating 125” to view in Clickview or follow this link. We have grouped the photographs for ease of access but will have the whole countdown playing in the Library when students visit next week.

The display board is looking fabulous with 74 more days to go!

Dorothy Wilkinson Memorial Library and Archives