Stationery stuff

Right, you need to be as prepared as possible for next year to make a success of your education.  This includes having all the "stuff" to learn.

Below is a link that will take you to the college website.  Under Mr Shepherd's face is a link to download the stationery requirements for your classes.  You should read this through.

Soon Stationery will be on special at places like the Warehouse, Paper Plus, Warehouse Stationery and all those awesome stores that I spend too much of my paycheck at.  I would recommend going through the classes you want to take and make a list of what you need.  Most classes seem to want refil..... just get one or two LARGE blocks of refill.

Seriously, take a look at the sales, not just as I love to drool over stationery, but the pens and all that are soooooooooo unbelievably cheap, make sure you have some!  You should also get a couple of highlighters and some paper or a visual diary so that you can get set up for revision early on.  Post-its are also a giant help, and post-it pens and highlighters are the best thing ever..... Drool.

If you are taking English or another heavy reading subject like History, you should seriously think of getting something like post-it flags or bookdarts.  These can highlight or lable the important parts of a text, without damaging it.  And if you walked away with bookvochures from prizegiving or Christmas, you should think about asking your teachers which novels (etc) you are studying.  Most novels are around $15... if you had your own copy, well, you don't have to worry about returning it, you have it all year, and you can draw on it!  Also, you can sell it to those studying it in next year!

The big cheats are if you have internet and even better, the itouch or iphone.  Here you can go to www.sparknotes.com and get free summaries of books, including all the stuff on characters, symbols, motifs etc.... (you can download a pdf or kindle version for like $5, but it is free online).  With the idevices, you can download timetable programmes, study tools, organising thingies, and all sorts of useful stuff like dictionaries, thesauruseseseses and atlaseseseseseses.  Or talking books for the perenially lazy.  I will give you loads of advice and suggestions over the course of the year, but I would recommend idevices from here to Africa.  If you get one for Christmas, bring it to school and Ms Owens can configure it to use over the school network, and you will be online, for free, during your school days.

Anywho, the purpose of this blog was STATIONERY!  Remember that.  Below is the link.  Make sure you have your lists.  Or else.  I will not be coming over to your parentseseses houses with a paper copy because you lost yours at the end of school!  Be cool people, be cool.

College stationery lists