What is the Global Learning Centre?
The Global Learning Centre consists of the library, recording studio and a Makerspace. While the services the GLC offer are many and varied, the core component of the GLC is to aid and assist staff and students in their literacy journey and literacy development.
Both staff employed in the GLC have decades of teaching experience between them. This educational background ensures that library staff are more than qualified to assist students in choosing reading material that is suitable in terms of their interests, curriculum needs and individual ability.
Class Sets
The library houses WCB’s vast collection of English texts that are studied throughout all four years of schooling. This collection is home to over 400 different class sets covering a wide variety of curriculum themes/topics. Having this wide selection of reading material allows students to access the same curriculum regardless of individual variances in literacy ability. The librarians, in conjunction with classroom teachers, can ensure that students are given the best possible chance of success by tailoring reading material to their needs.
WCB Book Club
The GLC plays host to the college’s Book Club. This club is open to any student who wishes to participate and who has signed up. Book Club meets several times per term at lunchtime. Students bring their lunch and talk about books, get first selection of any new books the library has ordered as well as enjoying light refreshments. Members of Book Club are also instrumental in helping the library select new reading material for the general student body and members get to participate in special celebratory events throughout the year.
Makerspace
The Makerspace in the GLC is an area that offers students an opportunity to create and explore through a range of structured and free-choice STEM activities. This space is open most lunch and recess times and is hugely popular. The activities on offer rotate regularly and are often focused on principles such as: engineering, designing, constructing, problem-solving, team-work, creativity and ingenuity.
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